Catchpoint vs SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor comparison

Catchpoint and SolarWinds are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #38 with an average rating of 8.0, while SolarWinds is ranked #20 with an average rating of 7.4. Catchpoint holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 89% of SolarWinds users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Catchpoint and SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor compete in the server and application monitoring category. SolarWinds appears to have the upper hand due to its superior features, despite some users preferring Catchpoint's support and pricing.

Features: Catchpoint users highlight real-time monitoring, extensive alerting capabilities, and a broad range of third-party integrations as its most valuable features. SolarWinds users appreciate its comprehensive monitoring, detailed performance metrics, and ease of troubleshooting. SolarWinds appears to have the upper hand in feature richness and depth.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint users seek improvements in historical data storage and the accuracy of synthetic monitoring. SolarWinds users desire enhanced reporting features and faster updates. While both products have areas for improvement, SolarWinds shows a broader range of user-requested enhancements.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint is praised for its support during setup and intuitive deployment process. SolarWinds users find the setup to be straightforward but occasionally require significant manual configuration. Both products have strong customer service, but Catchpoint users rate their support higher.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint offers competitive pricing and is perceived to deliver good ROI. SolarWinds has higher upfront costs but users report that its extensive features justify the investment. Catchpoint is seen as more cost-effective, but SolarWinds offers better ROI due to its feature richness.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

38th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (60th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (12th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

20th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (11th), Active Directory Management (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.5%, down from 1.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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AnmolRai

Technical Consultant Project Lead at Capgemini

Valuable monitoring features enhance ecommerce experience while improvement needed in region-specific insights

As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues. We are currently using an external tool, Splunk, for reporting. If we could receive similar data for the China market as we do for North America and Asia Pacific, this would be helpful.

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VIVEK PATHAK

Solutions Architect at Airtel

Offering reasonably good dashboarding features but needs to improve the application performance monitoring

My company uses Riverbed for application performance monitoring. I was doing research so that I could understand if SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provide APM capabilities similar to Riverbed, which allows our company to get a packet capture of an entire session, and on the basis of it, we look at the application performance monitoring part. With SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor, my company does SNMP polling, so it can drag an entire session, but it focuses more on availability, CPU memory, and server connection status. In Riverbed, my company catches an entire system, so when we deal with two applications, we have end-to-end app visibility. All the application monitoring happens through Riverbed. Our company's main problem is that, as of now, we have two different products in our organization, and we don't want to continue with the multiple products currently. I wanted to understand if SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor already have capabilities like Riverbed, and if they do, then I wanted to figure out why our company should not go with SolarWinds and why we are using products from multiple vendors. My company needs to continue with either Riverbed or SolarWinds. I wanted to see which products are good for the organization and how much I want to continue with Riverbed.

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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

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

"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to identify and troubleshoot network issues."

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

"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."

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

"During business hours, it has worked absolutely fine without any issues."

"The solution offers three different ways of slicing data to look for abnormalities."

"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."

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"The most beneficial aspect of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is its ability to monitor at the application level."

"The most valuable feature is application monitoring."

"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is the network devices' performance monitor is the best."

"SolarWinds SAM has significantly improved our workflow by allowing us to develop a comprehensive knowledge base of known errors and automate responses to specific alerts."

"Features like monitoring and infrastructure dependency mapping are valuable to us."

"It is simple to implement and can provide fairly decent Windows-based monitoring, beyond simple SNMP. It is great for monitoring newbies and smaller shops."

"AppInsight. Provides a simple way to get very in-depth monitoring configured for our most popular applications. Exchange, SQL, and SharePoint."

"It's good at monitoring system-specific things like ports, services."

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Cons

"It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow."

"The product could include global monitoring and predictive analytics to identify widespread issues and cyber threats."

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

"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."

"There's still too much manual involvement in getting customized test configurations out there. It's good, but it still takes a lot of effort. In other words, it's when you need to configure it to collect a specific variable and that kind of thing."

"Trending needs improvement. Currently, out-of-the-box, they provide only seven days availability. So, we have to do queries and we have to go into a separate analysis module, we have to run lot of queries to long-term trends."

"As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues."

"A large selection of nodes are available but it is a challenge to test reliably in China and the Middle East."

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"The current script monitoring feature has limitations, especially when dealing with custom scripts."

"The stability, flexibility, and ease of use could be improved."

"I believe that some of the trends, environmental maps, and items like those found in Orion would be very beneficial."

"In terms of the dashboards on offer, they should work to improve them. The types of dashboards that you get in terms of the graphs on offer aren't ideal right now."

"For each poller, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor can only monitor up to ten thousand components, which restricts scalability."

"An additional feature that would improve this solution is the ability to complete root cause analysis."

"SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor could improve the server monitoring and the web application monitoring features are not good. Microsoft SCOM has better server monitoring."

"Reporting is the only thing with which we currently have challenges. They have this in two ways. There is the report writer, which is the backend, and we also have web reports, which are on the console. So, they have removed the report writer for the backend reports, and we are making use of the web console, but most of the users are not finding it very interesting to use the frontend reports. I would like them to bring back the report writer. That's the key area within it to improve on the reporting. If they can bring back the report writer, then most users will actually be comfortable. I have some customers who are trying to export their report to an Excel format, but it is not possible because they said any report that has been done from the web console cannot be exported to Excel, but most of the customers need to export their reports to Excel. That's one area they need to work on."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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 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."

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

"The product might cost you $30,000 USD to buy, but scaling this solution requires the purchase of additional polling engines at $20,000 USD each."

"Pricing and licensing is fair for what you get. It does have a great bang-for-the-buck appeal."

"We pay around $ 2,000 to $ 5,000 yearly for the solution."

"The solution's price is reasonable. Though it's on the higher side, the tool is worth the money."

"I would advise potential buyers to wait until the end of the quarter, end of year, or other time to place orders. There are actually great deals to be had at those times if your budget cycle can match up."

"Its licensing is on a yearly basis. It is just the standard price, but it can vary depending on the current rate of the dollar."

"I would rate the pricing for this solution a three out of five."

"The licenses start from USD 3000.00 and go up to USD 20,000.00 for the year. It's a perpetual license. Nothing is free in SolarWinds, anything that you need is an additional cost."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

27%

Retailer

15%

Real Estate/Law Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Catchpoint?

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.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models. Clients typically see significant operational and cost efficiencies, with time savings estimated between 30% and 40%.

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

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What do you like most about SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

Identifying the problem statement is easy.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

The initial cost is quite high, but the renewal cost is reasonable.

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What needs improvement with SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

There are no specific features or functionality I would like to see improved or enhanced in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor at this time. I have not encountered any missing features or fu...

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Overview

Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs, and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.

Learn more at: https://www.catchpoint.com/

Catchpoint

SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers powerful application and server monitoring capabilities for IT pros, enabling them to diagnose and troubleshoot performance issues faster. Do not let slow applications and downtime impact your end-users and business services. Pinpoint the root cause of application issues across various layers of the IT stack. SolarWinds SAM is affordable and easy to deploy, use, and customize. You can automatically discover your system's environment and start monitoring in about an hour. No professional services or consultation needed.

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Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

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