Catchpoint vs Request Metrics

Likelihood to Recommend

It's an excellent tool for monitoring results and looking for failures, errors, or abnormal behavior in your applications; also, you can configure alerts to be sent to the appropriate person in case of failures. It can be used to run a smoke test so you can save some time. It's not the appropriate tool to run regression testing.

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Analyst in Quality Assurance

Internet Company, 201-500 employees

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Request Metrics is great for small web development teams that want to make fast web applications. It was quick for us to get started and we could use the reports right away without having to read through documentation. If you just need to get some performance metrics, Request Metrics is perfect.It would not be so good for a larger team or a complex backend application as it is pretty limited in what it can measure.

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Imelda Garcia

Software Engineer

pounce3Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Catchpoint

Request Metrics

Application monitoring

Threshold alerts

Application performance management console

Pros

Reporting
Customized scripts

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Employee in Information Technology

Retail Company, 10,001+ employees

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Performance charts are really simple and easy for us to understand what is happening
It was easy to get started and doesn't need administration or training
It's affordable for our team
It's fast

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Imelda Garcia

Software Engineer

pounce3Computer Software, 1-10 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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I wish that it could also do uptime checking of the site
There is not enough detail to drill into individual users

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Imelda Garcia

Software Engineer

pounce3Computer Software, 1-10 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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No score

No answers yet

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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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No score

No answers yet

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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 also consider Speedcurve and Calibre for monitoring. Speedcurve was really nice, but the reports were slow. We had to wait a lot to get information. It was also out of our budget and would require extra justification to use it.Calibre was also nice, but the numbers were based on synthetic rather than real user performance. We felt that this wasn't as helpful for us.

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Imelda Garcia

Software Engineer

pounce3Computer Software, 1-10 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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The launch of our project dashboard was much smoother and more successful because we could fix problems earlier
It fit without our existing operations budget

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Imelda Garcia

Software Engineer

pounce3Computer Software, 1-10 employees

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Pricing Details

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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

General

Free Trial

Yes

Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Yes

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Optional

$10*

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Catchpoint vs Request Metrics

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Application monitoring

Threshold alerts

Application performance management console

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Free/Freemium Version

Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Entry-level set up fee?

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