Looks like a great app — are there any plans to release an Android version? I’d love to use it on my Android phone.

no push notifications on Android. anywho, thanks for the app!!! Was hoping you’d marry the pingdom app + push!

This is great, was waiting for it since I saw the (wrong) screenshots for the old app.

However, it seems to crash every time when I select Uptime or Downtime on a newly created check. After a few minutes everything is fine. Also (i think this is a Apple’s fault) you can’t see any text when you zoom into the input fields (looks like it shows the white text on a white background).

But still really nice work!

Nice applicatio!
A little bug: if you change the dare range for a monitor and you are (for example) on Donwtime page, the graph is instantly updated; the downtime, and outages values are not updated. You need to tap back and then again the monitor to see the changes.

I’m still trying to figure out why you have an iPhone application, a device used by little kids, instead of a BlackBerry application, a device used by a extremely large percentage of businesses.

Not to mention BlackBerry has a higher market share than the iPhone does.

Why not make an application for the largest customer base?

@Pingdom: Why not for the Android now? It is one of the fastest selling phones since the Iphone. I would think you could capitalize and bring more customers in with an application for the Droid users. Have there been talks of making the droid application and what is the time frame for production and testing of the app?

Thnaks for the update.. Installing it now on My iPhone

Any chance of being able to run this on an ipod? I tried to install but got a warning saying “This App is incompatible with this ipod touch. This app requires a microphone.” thanks!

I’m running the latest version, 3.1.2, but it is a first generation iPod so there is no microphone.

@Pingdom I was just wondering what your reasoning behind making an iPhone application instead of a BlackBerry one. Ease of development perhaps? It just seems to me like the majority of people who have sites they want to monitor wouldn’t have an iPhone. I go to school for Computer Science and every single one of my peers uses a BlackBerry, Android, or (yuck)Windows Mobile device. If I had to guess, I’d say the majority of the Pingdom user base uses anything but an iPhone.

But hey, that’s just my guess.

+1, same issue than Ben with iPod touch 1st gen, firmware 3.1.2

Is there a way to test the push notification? Pingdom lets us send test SMS messages via the web management interface it would be nice to do so for iPhone push too.

Actually, it would be nice to test email and twitter alerts so that we can test automated responses to these alerts.

First, thanks for the app. Great idea.

Unfortunately, not so great in execution:
* it won’t save my login credentials (this is very important)
* it doesn’t support multiple accounts (also important)
* login consistently fails to work properly
* UI is *very sluggish*, especially the login button
* there’s no real feedback that you are actually logging in

All of these are fixable, I’m sure, so I’m looking forward to the *next* version.

Awesome work guys! Recently signed up and loving Pingdom. This just made it even better.

Small note about their choice to go with an iPhone app (which I am happy about)… in my circle of friends (all developers, web designers, IT folk) not a single one of us has a BlackBerry. It’s 100% iPhone, so it seems like an obvious choice to me

Thanks guys, this is great! I installed it and it works very well.

Do you plan to support multiple accounts with the iPhone app? I have a Pingdom account for my contract work, and then another one with my employer. From what I can tell, there’s currently no way for me to have both of these accounts setup on my iPhone.

@Ryan Kearney: nearly *everyone* I know who works on the web has an iPhone. I’m not sure where you got the idea that the iPhone is a “toy” and that Blackberrys are required for Serious Business.

Are there any plans to make the WSDL standardized? As it is it cannot be consumed as either WSDL nor as an XML schema. I really don’t want to build XML serialization and deserialization by hand if possible. It would help with the Android version that I’d like to work on.

Awesome app guys!

I second the notion for multiple account support, getting alerts for all Pingdom accounts on my iPhone would be awesome

@Ryan Kearney: BlackBerry and iPhone have pretty equal marketshare and keep trading places for 1st place. The latest IDC numbers give RIM 19% vs Apples 17.1 percent.

The iPhone is gaining ground in the business arena rapidly and once the AT&T exclusivity is gone, expect even more sales in that market.

I’m not an Apple fanboy but I hate to see someone majoring in Computer Science throw stuff out without doing their homework.

Do yourself a favor and embrace all of the available tools instead of a specific platform or technology as you are certainly going to encounter a wide range of different devices in the real world.

Don’t waste that expensive education by limiting your expertise to a single device as you never know what tomorrow will bring.

The more tools in your toolbox, the better suited you’ll be to tackle anything put in front of you.

I’m in the same boat as Kyle Fox, multiple accounts in the app would be VERY convenient. I’d be willing to part with a few dollars if you want to charge for a multi-account version of the app.

That is great. But where is the app for Windows Mobile? Most people I know in the industry use Windows phones or Blackberry in their organizations. iPhone is not a true business phone. Pingdom has a great service and it would be great to have monitoring capabilities on our Windows phones…

No matter what I try I just get the message “No iPhones are connected to this contact” in the web panel. I’ve gone into the iPhone app settings, hit Notifications and ticked the contact, but it still doesn’t change.

I just upgraded my pingdom iPhone app to version 2.0 and I am very impressed! Love the push notification feature (although I hope never to use it) and of course the graphs. Congrats to the Pingdom team on developing such a cool App!

I’ve been a subscriber for a long time and I was excited about the app. I attempted to install it on my iPod Touch (you said it would work on a Touch) and it said that it required a microphone for install. Can you fix this problem please… Also, please consider developing for Blackberry.

I must say it’s a little bit strange that a pinging application needs to use the microphone…

1st gen iPod Touch, running 3.1.2

The error comes from the AppStore, before you can install the application. I.e I guess you’re referencing the microphone API, and AppStore knows the Touch does not have that. Or they screwed up when adding it to the AppStore, I don’t actually know how that works…
http://files.posterous.com/smallfail/mh65CE84WNT5cvtYCcJeDC76I8idsJz1EG76Uj5afAhcpZmmfm5HBKQMrH04/photo.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=1C9REJR1EMRZ83Q7QRG2&Expires=1260800341&Signature=OaILRR39AowFlXL26dB5YGEL16w%3D

Anyway, hope you can get that sorted out, it would be useful…

Just be aware that the Apple Push Notification Service (APNS) documentation specifically says that push notification delivery is not guaranteed.

So think of it more like a pager message than an sms.

Please add multiple logins for the same account!
We need push notifications for members, who don’t particularly need access to admin details, but do need to know when the site goes down.
Thanks!

Wow. This app is great. As a freelance web developer, the app helps a lot. I couldn’t help but notice there was a small discussion about the app not being available to Blackberry users. I just wanted to say, you’re right, Blackberry is a much more “local” phenomenon than most North Americans believe. I perfer the iPhone as well, and most of the other freelancers I meet do as well.