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Pingdom

Streams uptime and performance alerts into your incident response flow, manages maintenance windows automatically, and audits monitoring coverage across your server fleet.

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Why use Ceven?

  1. AI native Pingdom integration

    • Describe the outcome and Ceven picks the right Pingdom calls, fills the parameters, and checks the result.
    • Structured, agent friendly tool schemas so each call runs reliably instead of by guesswork.
    • Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your Pingdom data, across all 13 of its actions.

  2. Managed auth

    • Built in OAuth with automatic token refresh and rotation.
    • One place to manage, scope, and revoke Pingdom access.
    • Per user and per environment credentials instead of shared keys.

  3. Agent optimized design

    • Actions are tuned from real success and error rates so reliability climbs over time.
    • Full execution logs so you always know what ran in Pingdom, when, and on whose behalf.
    • The agent pauses and asks when Pingdom is unclear instead of plowing ahead.

  4. Enterprise grade security

    • Fine grained access so you control which agents and people can reach Pingdom.
    • Least privilege by default, read scopes first and only the writes a workflow needs.
    • A full audit trail of every Pingdom action to support review and sign off.

Supported tools

Every action Ceven's agents can run on Pingdom, and when to use it.

Get alert actions
Use this when you need to fetch a list of configured alert actions with filters for check IDs, user IDs, or specific time ranges.
Get checks list
Pull an overview list of all active uptime checks. Use this to audit monitoring coverage or find specific checks by tag.
Get contact details
Fetch the full configuration of a specific alerting contact including their notification methods by using the contact ID.
Get contacts
Retrieve a complete list of all alerting contacts and their notification targets across the account.
Get credits
Check remaining API credits and check limits. Use this to prevent workflow failures due to rate limiting.
List maintenance occurrences
Pull a list of maintenance events filtered by a specific window ID or a custom time range.
Get maintenance windows
Retrieve all configured maintenance windows to see when monitoring is suppressed for specific hosts.
Get probes
List all available Pingdom probe servers to determine which geographic locations are available for new checks.
Get reference data
Pull account wide lists of time zones, roles, and integration types needed to configure other Pingdom settings.
Perform single check
Run an immediate test of a specific URL or host from chosen probes to verify a fix in real time.
Get team details
Fetch detailed member lists and integration settings for a specific alerting team.
Get teams
Retrieve all alerting teams and their current membership status.
List transaction checks
Pull all scripted or recorded transaction checks to monitor complex user flows.
Get Pingdom Alert Actions
Tool to retrieve a list of alert actions for your pingdom account. use when you need to fetch actions with optional filters: pagination, check ids, user ids, status, via channel, or time range.
Get Single Check
Tool to perform a single pingdom check. use when you need an immediate test of a host or url from specific probes. example: "perform single check on example.com with http type".
Get TMS Transaction Checks List
Tool to list all transaction (tms) checks. use when you need an overview of all scripted or recorded checks.

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Frequently asked questions

Ceven proactively manages the Pingdom API limits by utilizing the Get Credits action before executing bulk updates or large data pulls. Because Pingdom enforces strict rate limits on their API, the agent implements an exponential backoff strategy. If the agent detects that credits are running low or a rate limit error is returned, it will pause the workflow and queue the remaining requests. This prevents your account from being temporarily blocked and ensures that critical monitoring updates are processed in the order they were received without losing data during high volume events.
Yes. You can build a workflow where a deployment trigger in your CI CD pipeline calls the Get Maintenance Windows and List Maintenance Occurrences actions to verify existing schedules and then sets a new window. By automating this process, Ceven ensures that your team is not flooded with false positive alerts while servers are intentionally being rebooted or updated. Once the deployment is marked as successful in your pipeline, the agent can run a single check to verify the site is live before removing the maintenance window.
Ceven can differentiate between a site outage and a probe failure. By using the Get Probes action and comparing results across multiple geographic locations, the agent can determine if a failure is isolated to one region or is a global outage. If only one probe reports a failure while others remain green, the agent can flag the event as a potential probe issue rather than triggering a full scale site incident, which significantly reduces the number of unnecessary emergency pages sent to your engineering team.
Ceven fully supports transaction monitoring through the List Transaction Checks action. This allows the agent to monitor not just if a page loads, but if a complex flow like a checkout process or a login sequence is functioning correctly. When a transaction check fails, Ceven can pull the specific step where the failure occurred and include that detail in the alert sent to your team, allowing developers to jump straight to the broken part of the user journey instead of hunting through logs.
The agent uses Get Contacts and Get Contact Details to maintain a real time directory of who is being notified for which events. You can create a workflow that audits these contacts against your current employee directory to ensure that former employees are removed and new hires are added to the correct alerting teams. This ensures that critical uptime notifications always reach a human who is currently employed and authorized to handle the incident, eliminating the risk of alerts disappearing into dead email inboxes.
Ceven is limited by the specific Pingdom plan you have purchased. Since Pingdom gates the number of checks and the frequency of those checks based on your subscription tier, the agent cannot create more checks than your plan allows. If a workflow attempts to exceed these limits, the Pingdom API will return an error which Ceven captures and reports as a plan limit exception. We recommend using the Get Credits action within your workflows to monitor your remaining capacity and trigger a notification when you reach ninety percent of your limit.
Yes. By combining the Get Probes action with performance data from various checks, Ceven can compile a report on how your site performs across different global regions. The agent can identify if users in Asia are experiencing significantly higher latency than users in North America and then suggest moving resources to a different region or adjusting your CDN settings. This turns simple uptime monitoring into a strategic tool for optimizing the global user experience based on actual probe data.
The Get Reference Data action provides the necessary building blocks for creating other Pingdom objects. For example, if you want to programmatically create a new check or update a contact, you need the exact strings for time zones, probe IDs, and integration types that Pingdom expects. Ceven pulls this reference data first to ensure that any write actions it performs are formatted correctly, which prevents API errors and ensures that your monitoring configuration remains consistent and valid across your entire server infrastructure.

Alternatives to Pingdom

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