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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

    Splunk AppDynamics

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/AAppDynamics is an APM and Mobile APM program, with application mapping and predictive capabilities. These capacities enable automated remediation and code-level diagnostics in real time. It can be deployed on-premise or as a SaaS.N/A
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    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
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    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details- White glove migration services - Annual subscription - Professional Services - Competitive Benchmarking—
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    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
    Considered Both Products
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    Chose Catchpoint
    Catchpoint doesn't have a feature set that is as full but can provide many similar features for much less.
    Incentivized
    Chose Catchpoint
    In my opinion Catchpoint has not lost focus on synthetics like Dynatrace has. Catchpoint is increasing investment in its core monitoring network, while Dynatrace has shut down its backbone monitoring network.
    Incentivized
    Chose Catchpoint
    Catchpoint as a product provides comprehensive tools to help orchestrate real-world synthetic monitoring capabilities. Coding & payload development language easy to use and manage. The user management features could use some additional features to help make managing user & …
    Incentivized
    Chose Catchpoint
    Catchpoint soared very well as compared to AppDynamics.
    Incentivized
    Chose Catchpoint
    Catchpoint is instrumental in helping diverse tech stack across hundreds of regions of the organization in cost efficient way.
    Incentivized
    Cisco
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    Key User Insights
    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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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    96%
    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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    Implementation went as expected
    53 Answers
    Features
    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
    Application Performance Management
    Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Catchpoint and Splunk AppDynamics
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    Catchpoint
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    Ratings
    Splunk AppDynamics
    8.5
    74 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Application monitoring00 Ratings9.474 Ratings
    Database monitoring00 Ratings8.071 Ratings
    Threshold alerts00 Ratings8.872 Ratings
    Predictive capabilities00 Ratings7.771 Ratings
    Application performance management console00 Ratings8.971 Ratings
    Collaboration tools00 Ratings7.659 Ratings
    Server availability and performance monitoring00 Ratings8.544 Ratings
    Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting00 Ratings8.842 Ratings
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    Score8.9 out of 10
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    Enterprises
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    Score7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (66 ratings)
    8.6
    (74 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Usability
    8.1
    (3 ratings)
    8.5
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.7
    (67 ratings)
    8.1
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.2
    (1 ratings)
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    User Testimonials
    CatchpointSplunk AppDynamics
    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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    Cisco
    Platforms for software as a service (SaaS) frequently cater to a large number of users with a variety of needs and usage patterns. Because AppDynamics offers multi-tenant monitoring capabilities to track performance across various customer environments, it is a good choice for SaaS platform monitoring. SaaS providers can maximize resource utilization, proactively detect and resolve performance issues, and provide a dependable and consistent user experience for their clients with AppDynamics.
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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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    Cisco
    • AppDynamics delves deeply into traceability and profiling at the code level. By identifying and refactoring any hidden performance hogs in our code, we can directly observe the performance improvements.
    • AppDynamics provides real-time dashboards and in-depth insights into each layer of the application stack, lifting the curtain on performance.
    • AppDynamics gives us the ability to proactively detect and resolve performance issues. We are able to keep things running smoothly for our users and stop outages.
    • We can monitor stability and performance prior to, during, and following releases with AppDynamics, which helps to minimize regression risks and facilitate smooth rollouts.
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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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    Cisco
    • Improving the clarity and comprehensiveness of the documentation could benefit users. Clearer documentation ensures that users can make the most of all the functionalities
    • Leverages AI and machine learning for intelligent insights, aiding in issue identification and prediction.
    • Competitive, with AI-driven features becoming increasingly common in APM solutions.
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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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    Cisco
    its working for us, we are familiar and comfortable with the tool and its proven valuable/indispensable in helping evaluate our code.
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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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    Cisco
    Actually, I would like to give it a score of 10 out of 10, but taking into account certain factors such as: the cost of the annual licence, the complexity of installation and configuration, the blurring of setting Splunk AppDynamics over the cloud and especially OpenShift since we use it as a container platform. So, 8 out of 10 looks perfect for it
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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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    Cisco
    AppDynamics has its own community site that includes forums and a knowledge base. On the forums, you can converse with other members of the community and ask technical questions as you have them. Though this forum isn’t filled with people there are active members for you to gain some valuable insights.
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    Implementation Rating
    Catchpoint Systems Inc
    very easy to implement as the product is user-friendly
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    Cisco
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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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    Cisco
    It is distinguished from these programs because the platform provides visualizations of application processes, showing the interplay between various parts and services. Understanding the architecture of complicated apps and finding their weak spots is greatly aided by this.
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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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    Cisco
    • AppDynamics has played a pivotal role in optimizing our applications for a seamless user experience. The proactive monitoring and quick issue resolution have translated into improved user satisfaction and increased retention rates.
    • The initial cost and effort associated with implementing AppDynamics might be considered a negative impact, particularly for organizations with budget constraints. However, the long-term benefits have justified this initial investment.
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