Pingdom provider

About Pingdom providers

A Pingdom provider allows you to connect to your Pingdom environment. You can then use the Web API tile to monitor the state and performance of your Pingdom Checks.

Adding a Pingdom provider is a one-time configuration task, and once you have a Pingdom provider configured you can use it with multiple tiles. You may like to refer to the Pingdom API documentation or speak to your Pingdom expert.

This article describes how to use the Web API Integration to create a Pingdom provider.

What are Integrations and Providers

Adding a Pingdom provider

For Pingdom the provider must be created as a simple provider:

1. In SquaredUp browse to System > Administration > Integrations.

2. Under Integrations click Web API.
3. Click the authentication type Simple
4. In the service name box type in a suitable name, e.g. Pingdom
5. The base URL should be the current Pingdom API URL, for example:
   https://api.pingdom.com/api/3.1/
   We recommend you include the API version here in the base URL, so if the API version changes you only need to update it here, rather than in every tile.
6. Under default headers click add

7. Add the following:
   name: authorization
   value: Bearer<API token from Pingdom>

   You can create an API key (token) by logging in to Pingdom > Settings > Pingdom API > Add API token

   Enter a Name, leave the Access Level set to Read access and click Generate token.

   Copy the API token from Pingdom before closing the window:

   Paste the API token into the authorization value box in SquaredUp DS, prepended by the word Bearer and a space

8. Click Save.

Download the Pingdom Dashboard Pack

The Pingdom Dashboard Pack will give you key dashboards to get started.

Pingdom Dashboard Pack

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