Catchpoint vs SolarWinds ipMonitor | TrustRadius

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Score 8.3 out of 10

Based on 7 reviews and ratings

Score 8.1 out of 10

Based on 55 reviews and ratings

Feature Rating Comparison

Catchpoint

SolarWinds ipMonitor

Automated network device discovery

Network monitoring

Alerts

Network mapping

Customizable reports

Pros

Reporting
Customized scripts

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Employee in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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ipMonitor is well suited to use SNMP sources to monitor up states and usage such as network interfaces
ipMonitor does a great job of measuring bandwidth usage and delivering a long term 'picture' of usage
ipMonitor has an exceptional interface that is easy to use and simple to navigate

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Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

Would like Catchpoint to replace awful canned scheduled reports with customized ad-hoc reports built from the Performance tab.
Pricing for Catchpoint Points is too high. Limits the number of tests we use.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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SolarWinds ipMonitor tool is good for small to medium-size applications but it has some drawbacks for large and busy applications on busy servers.
[It] may not able to provide accurate results for applications or servers which work on high loads and busy environments.
In our Organization it has been observed on the Clustered environment with always-on technology, and iPMonitor cannot pinpoint the network traffic and performance which servers were switched between the servers. While switching between Active node to passive node in a clustered environment, it cannot pinpoint application web servers issues.

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Windows and SQL Administrator

CTDCFInformation Technology and Services, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

No score

No answers yet

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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.2

Based on 1 answer

I have very few pieces of software, that are specific to IT and IT services, that just work. Honestly, I don't need the support as it never breaks, but I believe in rewarding vendors that make valuable products

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Network Systems Engineer

Whitesell GroupMechanical or Industrial Engineering, 501-1000 employees

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Usability

Catchpoint 7.0

Based on 1 answer

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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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.1

Based on 8 answers

SolarWinds ipMonitor is a perfectly decent network mapper and performance metric gatherer, but it is held back by the UI, which can be hard to navigate once you have more than a couple dozen assets in there. It is fairly priced, but it also sometimes takes a really long time before results come in.

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Dylan Eikelenboom

Security Officer

IXON CloudInformation Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

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Support Rating

Catchpoint 8.9

Based on 6 answers

Whenever asked for, the representatives would jump onto a call and help us out with ongoing issues without any trouble.

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Employee in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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SolarWinds ipMonitor 8.6

Based on 10 answers

Although I had not much support ticket with ipMonitor support team but I can share my overall experience with SolarWinds products and support team. I am working with SolarWinds support team since last 7 years and in last 2-3 years I have seen a significant improvement in knowledge documentation which is helping end users to troubleshoot problems by themselves. Apart from this SolarWinds phone call based support is very nice as tickets and emails might take some time but a direct phone call can get your job done quickly comparatively.

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Nikhil Kumar Sharma

Associate Consultant

HCL TechnologiesInformation Technology & Services, 10,001+ employees

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Alternatives Considered

We are an ex-Keynote customer and an ex-Gomez customer. Catchpoint is better than both of those platforms.

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Manager in Information Technology

Computer Hardware Company, 5001-10,000 employees

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We have run Zabbix in the past and while it is a great and very flexible tool (much more than SolarWinds), it is also an Open Source tool that depends heavily on the community. When it comes to more complex environments and global implementations with business critical applications, we could not rely on the community to support us.SolarWinds is a leader on monitoring industry and has a great support.

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Analyst in Information Technology

Oil & Energy Company, 10,001+ employees

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Return on Investment

It's very helpful to run tests after a deployment or release, so we can quickly see at the results before investing time on testing manually or running other tools.
It provides alerts, so we can be aware of errors even during the weekends (when our engineering team is not usually looking at the application).

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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We currently use an outside service to monitor critical network nodes. We will do away with that service shortly.
We no longer have to wait to hear from our users if there is a network device down. We will be proactively alerted and we can begin to remediate immediately helping to limit downtime.
After initial setup and some tweaking, it requires little to no time to maintain.

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IT Manager

Handel ArchitectsArchitecture & Planning, 51-200 employees

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Pricing Details

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Catchpoint Editions & Modules

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General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

Yes

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

SolarWinds ipMonitor Editions & Modules

Edition

ipMonitor -2500 Monitors	$5770¹
ipMonitor - 1000 Monitors	$2620¹
ipMonitor - 500 Monitors	$1570¹

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Rating Summary

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