Catchpoint vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

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Catchpoint and Quest Software are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

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86% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (13th), Network Monitoring Software (13th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (4th)

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Featured Reviews

reviewer2867268

Observability Architect at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Proactive synthetic monitoring has reduced major incidents and provides global user experience insights

One thing that is not available is the multi-factor authentication feature concerning monitoring any applications. If an application depends upon MFA for its login flow, Catchpoint doesn't have the ability to bypass or monitor that flow for multi-factor authentication. This is one area where I would like to see improvement in the tool because many applications nowadays use multi-factor authentication, and Catchpoint does lag a bit in providing the end-to-end synthetic observability for applications dependent on MFA. This is one of the major areas needing improvement. Otherwise, Catchpoint has been one of the greatest tools in the synthetic monitoring or digital experience monitoring space, and I don't see anything else right now, but MFA is something that certainly needs some improvement.

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Anton Kasimov

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.

I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Catchpoint helped us establish that something is in a provider network, so we could tell our customers to check their internet provider because the traffic is not getting to us. You need to be gentle when you tell them that, but the fact that we could do it was crucial."

"The drill-down feature of this product was very good, as it allowed us to identify the exact page or area of the site that was causing our customers an issue."

"Catchpoint provides a great amount of information."

"My advice to others who want to start using Catchpoint is that it's more useful for eCommerce businesses, and if you want to use it, it's a very, very helpful tool because it captures data from end-to-end."

"The most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI."

"Catchpoint is very flexible and also provides logs for troubleshooting purposes. It helps us fix issues within the SLAs signed with the end users. The tool is easy to learn."

"One of the features, the scatter plot, is very useful. It shows red dots wherever there are issues."

"Catchpoint has everything you could want in a synthetic tool, and many things that you didn't know you wanted but you are ecstatic to have."

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"Many other tools are capable, but IMO not as flexible or powerful except for particular applications."

"Our ROI has been great it has saved us many times to resolve issues before customers started complaining."

"Intuitive, Single-pane-of-glass dashboards for real-time statistics and long-term statistics for capacity management and in-depth analytics"

"We have no hard figures on the ROI on this product, however having the system has saved us time in terms of debugging and getting to the root cause of issues."

"It was easy and saved costs."

"Dell Foglight does analyze and optimize your virtual infrastructure. It definitely reduces operational cost."

"Foglight is the best overall solution we use, but it doesn't do everything we need or doesn't provide the best solution to everything we want to monitor."

"The product has improved the way we respond to database issues as it has made us more proactive."

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Cons

"One improvement for Catchpoint is the detail analysis logs that we struggle to find within the tool."

"I believe the connection with Snowflake, AWS, and other new upcoming AI tools should be easier, especially the configuration with AI tools and LLMs."

"The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."

"I think Catchpoint should have licensing models for individuals or very small organizations, and there is no auto-tuning for alerts, so auto-tuning features for alerts would be beneficial."

"My experience with pricing, setup effort, and licensing with Catchpoint is that it is not the cheapest product."

"I would love to have RAM monitoring available in Catchpoint, which would be a nice feature for both synthetic and real user monitoring, and it would be an amazing tool that I would love to have, complementing each other."

"There is room for improvement in terms of enhancing user experience and maybe improving their technical expertise, which is why I chose eight out of ten."

"There are essentially a lot of quotas. Nobody wants to sit and manually create monitors for someone who uses synthetic monitoring."

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"We had issues with deployment in the beginning until we had an expert guide us through the process."

"The version compatibility needs work."

"We had stability issues for FTR. The player used to get hung while running the robot scripts."

"In an older version of Foglight, we were not able to get any of our custom agents to work properly so that feature was not as much use as we had initially hoped and haven't tried using since."

"When we first turned on Foglight for the first time, it was like a fire hose."

"SQL agents often failed but again this may have been addressed in future versions."

"Being able to incorporate other bespoke monitoring into Foglight would have made the tool even more useful."

"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."

"The solution's pricing is comparable to the last tool we were using."

"The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models."

"The pricing is based on consumption and works on a point scale. For example, let's say I want to look at www.google.com, and I'm going to test it to see if it's there. It will bring back all this data that tells me how long it took to connect and how long it took to get the first byte. It will list all the resources on the page, showing that they all work and there are no broken links. It brings that data back. That test has an assigned point value depending on what you decide to extract from that test. If all I do is check to see whether it's available, it might be one point. I don't know the exact point values off-hand. This is just an example."

"In terms of licensing fees, I believe they were slightly higher."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."

"The price is expensive for us."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Outsourcing Company

18%

Marketing Services Firm

11%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	22

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	7
Large Enterprise	13

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing has been great. There is always a need to negotiate a bit more to get the best cost for the licenses we plan to buy. We expect better costs fro...

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My main use cases for Catchpoint are synthetic monitoring and transactions monitoring for different applications. We have a lot of critical tier zero applications where there is a need to have synt...

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Also Known As

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Foglight, Dell Foglight

Overview

Catchpoint is a robust monitoring solution offering synthetic and real user monitoring, network performance analysis, and root cause identification. It enhances response times, reduces downtime, and improves user experience through advanced features and support.

Catchpoint provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities that ensure application availability and improve user experience. By delivering synthetic and real user monitoring, API tracking, and cloud network performance insights, it enables companies to diagnose issues, maintain service reliability, and anticipate problems. Organizations can effectively simulate user actions, monitor endpoints, and obtain actionable insights for diverse applications and websites, supporting seamless digital transactions.

What are the key features of Catchpoint?

Synthetic and Real User Monitoring: Offers comprehensive insights into performance and user interactions.
Root Cause Analysis: Identifies issues quickly to minimize downtime and improve service reliability.
Customizable Dashboards: Provides tailored views for performance metrics and test results.
Alert Notifications: Keeps teams informed of potential issues with timely alerts.
Network Performance Monitoring: Tracks cloud and local network performance for optimal operation.

What benefits and ROI should users expect?

Cost Savings: Optimizes performance to reduce operational costs and enhance ROI.
Improved SLA Management: Helps maintain service level agreements with reduced false alerts.
Enhanced User Experience: Delivers consistent and responsive applications to users.
Operational Efficiency: Automates processes for minimizing manual intervention.

Catchpoint is implemented across industries for proactive performance monitoring, ensuring digital platform reliability and superior user experience. Its tools enable companies to track application availability and network performance, utilizing global coverage to deliver crucial insights for decision-making processes.

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Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

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Sample Customers

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Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com

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