I saw the new pingdom sensor and thought I would try it. It doesn't seem to inherit the proxy settings, so it seems unusable for those of us that have to proxy. On a different subject, we still see WMI issues. Certain sensors will fail and if you restart PRTG it will work again, so it seems to be a PRTG thing. Unfortunately we are running on server 2008, which I guess doesn't help.

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Dear Philip,

yes, the Pingdom sensor does not inherit the Proxy Settings. I would recommend for the WMI issues to open a support ticket.

best regards


May, 2011 - Permalink

Then is it not usable by anyone that has to proxy (which should be a good precentage of users). Any plans to allow it to proxy?


May, 2011 - Permalink

We are working on it.


May, 2011 - Permalink

Important note: The Pingdom sensor is deprecated as of PRTG version 16.1.23.

Please see the following article for more details and possible alternatives:


Mar, 2016 - Permalink