Catchpoint vs CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Likelihood to Recommend

Experience testing. We have many many many forms that require the user step thru certain sequences to get to specific places to enter in the information. Once achieved, the user must use that information to perform other actions that must be frequently tested for response time and information accuracy. Once the first several forms are completed, they will in turn effect the outcome of the other actions. CP allows us to test each step of the experience and allows us to focus on specific actions and results. CP is not well suited to test environments that are ever changing as it is not as modularized as it can be. In environments that constantly change, it is difficult to keep CP up to date.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Pros

Performance Chart Metrics: series of graphs and a chart summary. The number of graphs drawn depends on the metrics and settings chosen for the chart.
Catchpoint synthetic test that will be set up target an endpoint or URLS
Catchpoint Real User Monitoring (RUM) collects data from users browsing our sites via a JavaScript snippet.

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Habtamu Asfaw

System Engineer

DotDash Meredith CorpMedia Production, 5001-10,000 employees

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Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.

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Contributor in Engineering

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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Cons

Adding an endpoint to be monitored requires a lot of steps (since there are a lot of functions and features). A quick-add feature would be nice. If the settings are similar, the interface allows you to duplicate an existing setup and tweak the settings.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 501-1000 employees

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Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

—

Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

$50 per month

Likelihood to Renew

Catchpoint 9.1

Based on 1 answer

Great and convenient to use.

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Engineer in Information Technology

Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees

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No score

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Usability

Catchpoint 5.5

Based on 2 answers

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.

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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No score

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Support Rating

Catchpoint 8.9

Based on 48 answers

I have supported 20-30 different vendor tools in my career and Catchpoint, by far, has the best customer service that I have ever experienced. They are very responsive and thoroughly track and provide visibility on progress. Their level one resources are generally very knowledgeable. Also, support is more than happy to join bridge calls to help troubleshoot application issues if requested. Finally, the scope of service provided by support is not just typical support activities - they will also help in creating new monitors, providing training/education, etc... I am extremely happy with Catchpoint support!

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Team Lead in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Primary reason we went with Catchpoint is that they offered us actual backbone testing locations. All the other features like a filmstrip and traceroutes have been very beneficial as well and were not available in the competitors' solutions.

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Brian Gill

Team Lead - Operations Technology

Cox AutomotiveAutomotive, 10,001+ employees

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Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.

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Contributor in Engineering

Internet Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

The ROI has been very good with this product, we have seen multiple folds of time-saving by using this tool and preempting any risk associated with non-performant times of our server, hence increasing the team's capability to respond to certain downtime scenarios and the level of action that needs to be taken.
Catchpoint’s observability solution makes it easier to have global visibility of our website's performance and to fix issues quicker
I don't have any negatives, every good product comes with a cost, that is the fact but the Catchpoint tool has ultimately improved our ROI much beyond the changes that we pay

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Consultant in Information Technology

Cosmetics Company, 10,001+ employees

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Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.

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Team Lead in Engineering

Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees

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Catchpoint vs CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager Formerly AppFog

Catchpoint

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Attribute Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Catchpoint

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Likelihood to Renew

Catchpoint

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Usability

Catchpoint

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Support Rating

Catchpoint

CenturyLink Cloud Application Manager

Pros

Cons

Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

General

Free Trial

Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

Starting Price

Likelihood to Renew

Usability

Support Rating

Alternatives Considered

Return on Investment

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