Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring helps digital enterprises locate and resolve performance problems across the Internet Stack. It combines monitoring agents, analytics, and dashboards, with agents placed across backbone, broadband, cloud, and wireless networks. Catchpoint describes a worldwide network of more than 3,000 agents, including agents inside customer networks. The platform brings together synthetic tests, real user monitoring, network traces, OpenTelemetry, uptime, and other data. Its monitoring options include synthetic, real user, BGP, and endpoint monitoring, tracing, and WebPageTest. Teams can monitor APIs, websites, employee experience, internal enterprise networks, and cloud and edge performance. Analytics include adaptive baselines, event correlation, multidimensional queries, and AI-assisted insights to help identify anomalies and root causes. Catchpoint provides REST APIs, webhooks, OpenTelemetry support, and integrations for APM and collaboration tools, database connections, and CI/CD API monitoring workflows. Deployment is hybrid, and synthetic checks and topology maps are available. The company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in New York City. Its listed platforms include Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, API, and extension. Catchpoint also describes 24/7 support, onboarding, training, customer success, and professional services.
Who it is for
Catchpoint suits digital enterprises responsible for customer experience, workforce efficiency, networks, websites, applications, or APIs. It is relevant to teams that need monitoring across several parts of the Internet Stack and want to correlate telemetry from multiple sources.
What is good
- Monitors from more than 3,000 agents worldwide.
- Combines synthetic, real user, BGP, endpoint, and trace monitoring.
- Correlates multiple telemetry types to identify anomalies and root causes.
- Offers REST APIs, webhooks, and OpenTelemetry support.
- Lists 24/7 support, onboarding, and training.
What to know first
- Pricing uses point-based contract-lifetime purchases.
- Endpoint monitoring requires a browser extension and desktop application.
- Node-based tests have a 15 MB per-page and per-file download limit.
Verdict
Choose Catchpoint if your team needs broad Internet Stack monitoring with global agents and correlated telemetry. Its hybrid deployment and range of monitoring types suit organizations tracking external services as well as internal networks and employee experience. Consider the point-based contract pricing and endpoint software requirements when evaluating fit.
Get started with Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring
- Visit https://www.catchpoint.com/.
- Choose the Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring plan.
- Purchase points for the contract lifetime.
- Use the listed web, desktop, mobile, API, or extension platforms as needed.
- For endpoint monitoring, use the browser extension and Windows or Mac desktop application.
Questions about Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring
What does Catchpoint monitor?
It supports synthetic, real user, BGP, and endpoint monitoring, tracing, and WebPageTest. Listed use cases include APIs, websites, employee experience, internal enterprise networks, and cloud and edge performance.
What platforms does Catchpoint support?
Its listed platforms are Android, iOS, macOS, Windows, web, API, and extension.
How is Catchpoint priced?
The pricing model is paid and point-based. Points are purchased for the contract lifetime, and pricing tiers provide volume discounts.
Can Catchpoint connect to other monitoring systems?
It provides REST APIs, webhooks, and OpenTelemetry support. It also lists APM and collaboration integrations, database connections, and CI/CD API monitoring workflows.
What support does Catchpoint offer?
Catchpoint describes 24/7 support, a dedicated customer success team, onboarding, training, and professional services.
Catchpoint Internet Performance Monitoring plans and pricing
All plansCompared on network monitoring
- Synthetic checks
- Yes
- Topology maps
- Yes
- Deployment
- hybrid
