Catchpoint is an excellent synthetics monitoring solution that I highly recommend!
February 03, 2022
Catchpoint is an excellent synthetics monitoring solution that I highly recommend!
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Catchpoint
We use Catchpoint to monitor our websites, APIs, and SaaS solutions using the Synthetics Monitoring (DEM) solution. The broad availability of testing nodes all over the world and at all levels (from core internet down to last-mile and mobile) and internal nodes provide excellent coverage of our website availability and performance.
- Large number of testing locations
- Easy to review test results
- Flexible alerting options
- Great training available
- The browser recorder can be complex to use.
- So much data is captured by each test. Knowing which is most important can be difficult at times.
- Creating a new graph can be complex because there are so many options.
- Catchpoint has given us good visibility into our website performance.
- Catchpoint has given us good visibility into our website availability.
- As teams adopt Catchpoint, our MTTD has improved.
Catchpoint was initially brought on to support our QA team. When we expanded its use to monitor our production environments, we quickly benefited from timely alerts and detailed results when tests failed. The ability to test the script on-demand and see the same results is also very powerful. Note that someone with previous experience with a synthetics monitoring solution will find Catchpoint easy to use. Those who rely on the recorder to generate the scripts may find it more difficult to tune them if they don't have prior experience.
Catchpoint has many more testing nodes around the world at all levels of the internet. Their analysis of the test results is much more extensive and provides value to the operations staff supporting the site all the way to the developer who will want the specific detailed results. QA teams will also appreciate the analytics available.
Do you think Catchpoint delivers good value for the price?
Yes
Are you happy with Catchpoint's feature set?
Yes
Did Catchpoint live up to sales and marketing promises?
Yes
Did implementation of Catchpoint go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Catchpoint again?
Yes