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Actional vs Catchpoint comparison

 

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

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

Categories and Ranking

Actional
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
71st
Average Rating
9.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
SOA Governance (4th)
Catchpoint
Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
17th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
24
Ranking in other categories
Network Monitoring Software (21st), Cloud Monitoring Software (14th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (6th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Actional is 0.5%, up from 0.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Catchpoint0.9%
Actional0.5%
Other98.6%
Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability
 

Featured Reviews

it_user690762 - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud
Provides speed and scaling in the cloud Effortless scaling Never throws away data Takes action now Delivers analytics at the speed of business Automates and speeds up system discovery I would like to see better marketing. We have used this for four years. There are no deployment issues at this…
reviewer2867268 - PeerSpot reviewer
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.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"From a testing standpoint, ignoring license and cost issues, it's not a bad product."
"This tool has great scaling capabilities, i.e., no limitations."
"Overall, my experience with Catchpoint was really great, as it offers monitoring of performance, websites, APIs, and internet services for organizations."
"Overall, Catchpoint has been a strong platform for us to provide proactive digital experience monitoring."
"Catchpoint is actually catching issues before customers see them, since it's checking the sites every five minutes or even every minute, via the APIs."
"Catchpoint has positively impacted our organization by providing reliable visibility into performance and availability of our Jira and Confluence environments, giving us confidence that critical user journeys are being continuously monitored."
"They only lose two points for the cost; otherwise, the insights they provide are really good."
"We previously tried using Dynatrace, but it was really expensive for us, and when we discovered Catchpoint, we fell in love with it."
"Catchpoint has impacted my organization positively by speeding up the process in detecting issues much earlier, even before the business reaches out."
"Overall, Catchpoint has been a strong platform for us to provide proactive digital experience monitoring."
 

Cons

"My concern is with Automation integration."
"if we need to do performance analysis, we have to click too many times. For example, if there is an issue that is caught by Catchpoint, we need to understand what the error is and at which step it failed, or which transaction that is impacted. To drill down, we have to click too many things to get the answer."
"A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature."
"Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring."
"It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow."
"Documentation and online indexing are awful but have been improved recently."
"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."
"We would like the script creation feature of this solution to be improved, as it currently requires a complicated manual process to update the scripts."
"Currently, Catchpoint is migrating to a new user interface. My colleagues and I feel that the old user version was better, it was more user-friendly."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution's pricing is comparable to the last tool we were using."
"In terms of licensing fees, I believe they were slightly higher."
"The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models."
"The price and licensing are very, very high. They have to come down on the pricing to match with the industry standard."
"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."
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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm
18%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Retailer
8%
 

Company Size

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Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise1
Large Enterprise22
 

Questions from the Community

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?
My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that I am not directly involved in pricing, but the pricing is very decent.
What needs improvement with Catchpoint?
Catchpoint can be improved by supporting some of the APIs and other technical testing with some kind of metric validations as well. I do not have anything more to add about the needed improvements,...
What is your primary use case for Catchpoint?
My main use case for Catchpoint is mostly automating. I use Catchpoint automatically for automated monitoring of our various UIs and also the backend APIs. We rely on Chrome and Selenium and JavaSc...
 

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