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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Catchpoint

    Score9.2 out of 10
    N/ACatchpoint is an Internet Resilience solution offering services for retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs that help increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Intenet Stack before they impact their business.

    $37,950

    per year

    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued

    Score7.2 out of 10
    N/AData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), also known as Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), was an application monitoring solution focusing on user experience, with an emphasis on how the network – especially the WAN – influences user experience. It is a legacy product from Dynatrace, and is no longer sold or supported.N/A
    Pricing
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
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    Pricing Offerings
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details- White glove migration services - Annual subscription - Professional Services - Competitive Benchmarking
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    Community Pulse
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Considered Both Products
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    Chose Catchpoint
    Smart Bear Foglight Dynatrace CEM Catchpoint: I have used many synthetic monitoring products. Honestly, there are no big differences in features among all the products listed above or that I have used before. Probably, price and support might play big roles in selecting the …
    Incentivized
    Chose Catchpoint
    Catchpoint's node deployment, especially on the LM and mobile locations is one of the best I have seen. It helps us to debug better.
    Incentivized
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Catchpoint and Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Feature
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    Ratings
    Data Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    7.2
    3 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Application dependency mapping and thresholding00 Ratings8.03 Ratings
    Virtualization monitoring00 Ratings6.03 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    IT Asset Discovery00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (66 ratings)
    7.0
    (3 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (67 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CatchpointData Center Real-User Monitoring (DCRUM), discontinued
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    I like the synthetic test feature it has from the edge which mimics the real user - that for me is one of the best features. The certificate expiration, the API monitoring, the slowness breakdown to show where the slowdown happens, and more.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, has improved greatly compared to when it was DCRUM; however, it still needs a lot of improvement in end-to-end flow capture with regards to network monitoring. Its alerting and integration capabilities are very good and easy to use. But it still needs a lot of tweaking in usability.
    Incentivized
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    Pros
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    • Our standard operating material documents Catchpoint’s breadth on HTTP/Browser, API, Streaming, DNS, FTP, TCP, SMTP, Ping, Traceroute, SSH with content validation and custom widgets/dashboards. This gives SREs and L0/L1 a single place to validate both page flows and the underlying network/application protocols.
    • Product runbooks use Catchpoint to validate critical steps (for ex, login, overview dashboard, unit dashboards) and to detect DNS issues that break those journeys. so we catch experience regressions even when the backend looks healthy.
    • We’ve standardized Catchpoint alert categories/templates with ITSM so L0 includes the right analysis in handoffs. This tightened “first message, best message” during incidents.
    • Our operating procedures use Catchpoint for alwayson availability checks with email notifications and multi‑location verification when a site is down. This is useful for unambiguous “is it up/where is it failing” signals.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Dynatrace DCRUM can monitor legacy application protocols that are still used in a lot of organizations worldwide who still trust in those technologies.
    • DCRUM monitors client-server architectures very well and can pinpoint issues along an infrastructure stack.
    • Dynatrace DCRUM can analyze a wide spectre of protocols: Corba, DNS, DB2, Exchange, TCP, HTTP, IBM MQ, Citrix, ICMP, Informix, Tuxedo, SMB, LDAP, MSRPC, MySQL, NetFlow, Net8, Oracle Forms, RMI, SAP GUI, SAP HANA, SAP RFC, SMB, SOAP, XML.
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    Cons
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    • Missing Functionality: For our organisation, we use multiple observability tools and what we miss in Catchpoint is its ability to display a list of muted monitors in the dashboard. This was a business requirement for our company where the business wanted to know at any given point of time, a list of monitors that were muted during an outage or a scheduled maintenance. This feature was unavailable in Catchpoint, however, we hope to see some enhancements in the future.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    • Major upgrades process is sometimes unpredictable.
    • The use of SQL Server should be evaluated for something else.
    • Easier SSL key handling.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    The Catchpoint tool has now become an integral part of our DevOps toolkit due to its extensive range of capabilities, including application performance monitoring, network health tracking, DNS visibility, and edge performance analysis. Its seamless integration with our existing monitoring infrastructure has significantly enhanced our ability to detect potential issues proactively, analyze root causes in real time, and resolve incidents much faster, ultimately improving overall system reliability and user experience.
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    Usability
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    It's hard to find the functionalities that I am looking for in the application. Even if I did something in the past, after a time I have to re-learn again where the functionalities are. This is a powerful tool, but not user-friendly. Texts in the buttons and menus are not always meaningful or easily comprehensible.
    Incentivized
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    Best of breed.
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    Support Rating
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    The customer support is fantastic as they keep you updated and follow up even though we may not even follow up. Make sure they send a communication so that we remain updated. They value engineers who will get on a call with you to understand any requirement we have on any test, and they bring in the best developers on call.
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    The only thing missing for a 10, would be if they texted or called you back.
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    Implementation Rating
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    very easy to implement as the product is user-friendly
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
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    Alternatives Considered
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    Smart Bear Foglight Dynatrace CEM Catchpoint: I have used many synthetic monitoring products. Honestly, there are no big differences in features among all the products listed above or that I have used before. Probably, price and support might play big roles in selecting the products. I do not know the prices of these products.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    Nagios can't trace real user transactions from a front-end tier through a backend-tier,;with Nagios you only can monitor server availability and hardware issues. Riverbed is commonly used to determine networking issues without considering real user transactions impact on an application stack.
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    Return on Investment
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    • Catchpoint is not the only monitoring tool we use for our web properties. The test alerts raised by Catchpoint serves as a confirmation of possible outages/problems with an application. This has helped to reduce false-positive alerts thus improving the response of the operations team; they don't have spend time chasing ghosts
    • The unlimited scheduled tests we can run on the enterprise nodes has been a very cost effective solution compared to similar web monitoring tools
    • The ability to quickly dive into the test result details help to get to the root cause of a test failure quickly
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    Discontinued Products
    • Dynatrace Network Application Monitoring (NAM), formerly DCRUM, helped us get a lot of info on an ongoing issue.
    • It helped us figure out network bottlenecks in our environment.
    • It is a very costly tool and a lot of other cheaper tools give same kind of info.
    Incentivized
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