Catchpoint vs Spotlight

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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Spotlight is great when you need a tool to give a quick look at a SQL server as a whole. It gives you the ability to see a lot of things, which can be vital in diagnosing problems or identifying stressors. Less great is the open-end of some of the diagnoses it makes, and things it identifies as "problems" (unless you love users coming to you and saying something like "Spotlight says there's a problem with our page latch!!!").

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Manager in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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I love the main page that provides a color code list of all the servers so I know very quickly where to focus my attention first.
I love how easy it is to configure new notifications.
I love how easy it is to configure a new server to monitor.

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Professional in Information Technology

Food & Beverages 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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Have not found any issues at this point.

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Kathy Nahle

Senior Enterprise Oracle DBA

AdventHealthHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ 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

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

Starting Price

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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

No answers yet

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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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Spotlight 8.8

Based on 4 answers

Though our support needs have been minimal, we have gotten good responses when we have needed it.

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Manager in Information Technology

Financial Services Company, 201-500 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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I think Dell is better with its dashboard and ease of use, but SQL Sentry is better at customization. We used Spotlight at my previous company, and SQLSentry at my current company.

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Professional in Information Technology

Food & Beverages 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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We have not encountered any issues and continue to keep Spotlight's version current.
Very simple to set up and add databases. The only thing that has to happen to the database is that a user ID needs to exist.

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Kathy Nahle

Senior Enterprise Oracle DBA

AdventHealthHealth, Wellness and Fitness, 10,001+ employees

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Spotlight

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Performance dashboard

Intelligent alerting

Top SQL

Historical trend data

Virtualization support

Catchpoint

Spotlight

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Spotlight

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Likelihood to Recommend

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Pros

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Cons

Catchpoint

Spotlight

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

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Usability

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Support Rating

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Alternatives Considered

Catchpoint

Spotlight

Return on Investment

Catchpoint

Spotlight

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