Catchpoint vs Lakeside SysTrack comparison

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Catchpoint and Lakeside Software are both solutions in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category. Catchpoint is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4, while Lakeside Software is ranked #5 with an average rating of 9.0. Catchpoint holds a 5.2% mindshare in DEM, compared to Lakeside Software’s 6.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Lakeside Software users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 29, 2026

Catchpoint and Lakeside SysTrack compete in the IT performance monitoring sector, with Catchpoint better suited for enterprises requiring advanced synthetic monitoring and Lakeside SysTrack excelling in endpoint and asset management.

Features: Catchpoint provides robust synthetic transaction monitoring, enabling proactive issue detection with frequent alerts and insightful dashboards. It supports sophisticated data analysis for identifying abnormalities and enhancing performance. Lakeside SysTrack offers real-time telemetry data for comprehensive endpoint performance analysis, focusing on application usage and device metrics, beneficial for VDI environments.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint could improve automation capabilities, enhance the user interface, and expand its global monitoring reach, particularly in China and the Middle East. Integrating the alerting system and increasing monitoring scalability are also areas for development. Lakeside SysTrack requires a more flexible dashboard, improved integration with other tools, and the incorporation of AI-driven analysis for better issue handling and documentation.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint supports flexible deployment in Public and Hybrid Cloud environments and is praised for its responsive 24/7 customer service, simplifying integration processes. Lakeside SysTrack focuses on On-premises and Private Cloud, with valued professional services but needing improvements in usability and user support interfaces.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint targets large enterprises with a complex usage-based pricing model, offering strong ROI through reduced IT incidents and operational efficiency enhancements. Lakeside SysTrack, although priced higher, uses a per-device licensing approach that can be cost-effective for on-premises setups, delivering value through detailed analytics and resource management features.

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

4th

Average Rating

8.2

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)

Lakeside SysTrack

Ranking in Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM)

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 5.2%, up from 1.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Lakeside SysTrack is 6.3%, down from 11.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Catchpoint	5.2%
SysTrack	6.3%
Other	88.5%

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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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SumitKumar18

Senior SME at Microland Limited

Real-time monitoring and dashboards with cost-saving licensing

SysTrack requires significant improvements. Sometimes clients experience broken links where the service doesn't run on the user's machine, causing outdated data to display. For instance, a machine's last reboot might be inaccurately shown as seven days ago instead of two days ago. Additionally, real-time data syncing issues lead to delays, requiring this to be addressed, as data might be several hours old.

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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

"After using Catchpoint, we were close to 90 percent, where out of ten incidents, just one incident came from a customer, and the remaining were detected by internal sources, especially with Catchpoint."

"Catchpoint has impacted my organization positively by speeding up the process in detecting issues much earlier, even before the business reaches out."

"Catchpoint's customer service and support are valuable."

"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 is very great software for troubleshooting APIs, websites, availability, and other third-party services such as CDNs, which makes it stand out."

"They only lose two points for the cost; otherwise, the insights they provide are really good."

"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."

"The thing I like most is the tech support in this company, because they have 24/7 chat support. We can chat immediately and ask them about an issue and they keep responding. They create tickets on our behalf and respond."

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"I am impressed with the huge amount of information that you can get from the infrastructure."

"When a user calls in and says that they are having slowness issues, this tool has the capability to show exactly where the performance issue is. The Resolve feature that they have is very good. It is one of the main features. They are doing a pretty good job with the Resolve feature in terms of showing endpoint performance on various factors."

"SysTrack provides unique, real-time data."

"When you search for a machine or a user, the way we get the information is very helpful. The GUI provides us with all the information about that machine that a user is accessing. It tells us about the CPU, memory, etc. The GUI and the details provided are very helpful."

"Cost-wise, SysTrack has a higher rate than other products, such as Nanoheal, but the features that SysTrack has aren't there in any other product available in the market."

"SysTrack is a BI solution for endpoints; we use it to understand the user experience at the company and user level."

"It is a very powerful tool that will make your life easier."

"SysTrack gathers a lot of different metrics on every single device including performance metrics and application-related metrics such as application usage and resource utilization by applications. It collects a wide range of different metrics, and from that perspective, it's a really good tool."

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Cons

"For some larger workflows, I think the product could improve in a few areas."

"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."

"A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature. My company receives all the alerts and notifications it needs, but the page doesn't update automatically. You need to manually refresh the page, so every five minutes you need to refresh it to see the most updated information. If there's an automated page refresh feature, that would help my company. It's a feature that Grafana has. The page auto-refreshes in Grafana, so you don't have to manually refresh the page. If that feature is implemented in Catchpoint, it'll be useful for the users. Another area for improvement in the tool is you have to do a manual task, for example, when you have a notification for a market, you get a zip code that the user could have entered, but if the zip code is incorrect, you have to manually go into Catchpoint and update that parameter, so that manual step is another area in the tool that needs improvement."

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

"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."

"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."

"The only thing that occasionally bugs me about Catchpoint is some aspects of the UI."

"One thing that is not available is the multi-factor authentication feature concerning monitoring any applications."

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"One thing from a layman's standpoint, the report should be very clear."

"The licensing model is problematic."

"SysTrack requires significant improvements. Sometimes clients experience broken links where the service doesn't run on the user's machine, causing outdated data to display."

"The tool needs to improve the integration with third-party providers like Cisco products."

"The solution lacks AI in its analysis module."

"Their dashboard could be better. They did it custom, which is the main problem. They should have given an option to integrate it with some of the tools such as Power BI. Unfortunately, they are developing their own native dashboarding capabilities, which is killing them, in my view. The product is good, but dashboarding has been a pain area. I have to literally learn a new BI or dashboarding solution just for a system. We have 100 such kinds of solutions in our environment. If every solution has its custom solution for dashboarding, we can't survive. It is going to be crazy."

"Lacks flexibility with regard to licensing."

"SysTrack isn't stable enough. There are too many upgrades, and not all versions are stable."

More Lakeside SysTrack cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

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

"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."

"Cost-wise, SysTrack has a higher rate than other products, such as Nanoheal, but the features that SysTrack has aren't there in any other product available in the market."

"It is on a per-device basis. It is not on a per-user basis. I was not much engaged in the licensing piece. I was only a part of the conversation about how we are going to scale up or down, but its price, for sure, is competitive."

"If you compare cloud solutions to SysTrack, which is on-premises, then SysTrack is cheaper. If you compare the cost of SysTrack with that of other similar solutions, the cost is similar. For each master server, there's a license. In terms of end user devices, the licenses are sold in multiplications of 10. That's one upfront cost. Once you procure the license, you can use the software for as long as you like. The maintenance is sold on an annual basis. Additional costs are related to hosting and include a SQL server license and Windows server licenses."

"I would rate the solution's pricing a six out of ten."

"It is somewhat expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Outsourcing Company

11%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

13%

Insurance Company

Computer Software Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	2
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

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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What is your primary use case for Catchpoint?

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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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SysTrack?

SysTrack is considered an affordable solution. On a scale from one to ten, with ten being very cheap, I would rate it as an eight.

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What is your primary use case for SysTrack?

SysTrack is a digital employee experience platform that we have deployed in our infrastructure without any customized requirements from the client side. Clients seek to reduce the number of service...

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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.

Catchpoint

SysTrack offers comprehensive digital experience monitoring for IT environments like VDI and user devices. It provides valuable insights into performance, aiding service desk operations and improving efficiency through metrics tracking and data analysis.

Combining advanced tools for endpoint analysis and service optimization, SysTrack empowers organizations to enhance user experiences. Its features like Black Box, Resolve, and data capture improve performance insights, while virtual machine planning and incident mitigation streamline operations. Despite its robust toolkit, challenges exist in integration with third-party tools such as Dynatrace and Power BI. Users advocate for improved dashboards and centralized management consoles to optimize efficiency. Real-time data synchronization remains a focus area for future enhancements.

What are SysTrack's key features?

Black Box and Resolve: Provides critical insights to help diagnose performance issues.
GUI and Data Capture: Enhances endpoint analysis through detailed data collections.
Self-Help and Monitoring Dashboards: Assists service desk operations efficiently.
Virtual Machine Planning: Facilitates better infrastructure utilization and planning.
Automated Incident Mitigation: Streamlines the response to technical problems.
Infrastructure Insights: Aids in license management and cost-saving strategies.

What benefits and ROI should organizations expect?

Enhanced User Experience: Drives operational efficiency through better performance insights.
Reduced Service Desk Load: Enables fewer needed resources for support functions.
Cost Savings: Optimizes resources, reducing overall expenses.
Real-Time Performance Monitoring: Keeps operations smooth with continuous status updates.

SysTrack is widely adopted in industries needing to monitor digital employee experience within VDI environments. Organizations with large-scale deployments, such as those managing thousands of users, benefit significantly from its telemetry and infrastructure performance tracking capabilities. It supports reducing service-related challenges through its comprehensive analysis and proactive insights.

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HONDA, TATA, General Mills, Ford, Kellogg's, Air Canada

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