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 #17 with an average rating of 8.5, while SolarWinds is ranked #18 with an average rating of 8.0. Catchpoint holds a 0.9% mindshare in APM, compared to SolarWinds’s 1.1% 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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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

17th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (21st), Cloud Monitoring Software (14th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (6th)

SolarWinds Server and Appli...

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

18th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

4.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (6th), Active Directory Management (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.9%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is 1.1%, down from 1.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Catchpoint	0.9%
SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor	1.1%
Other	98.0%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Chethan Premsingh

Manager, Observability Automation & Service Operations at a tech vendor with 5,001-10,000 employees

Proactive monitoring has reduced downtime and now identifies traffic issues before customers notice

I think Catchpoint can be improved because it is competitively a little costlier. I understand that Catchpoint provides the best solution, but comparatively, if I compare it with Uptrends, New Relic, DataDog, and ThousandEyes, Catchpoint does multiple things, but it comes with a cost. That is one of the areas you can leverage use cases based on customer requirements and come up with a better pricing model. The existing ones are good, but for our use case from Zoom, we were just looking for our endpoints to be monitored every minute, and that cost us a lot compared to the existing tool that we were using. That area is something to look for improvement.

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NikhilKalwint

Technical Specialist at ServiceIO

Monitoring over a thousand systems has improved decision making and operational visibility

From an advantage perspective, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is comparatively cheaper from a commercial point of view. It is easy to install and configure, very user-friendly, and quick to get up and running, allowing you to see the early value adds in your organization. It is compatible with most technologies for monitoring with very few chances of incompatibility. Configuration also allows us to monitor all the technical parameters we are looking for, making it a very good experience for us. The alerting feature in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor is a main advantage, as it alerts based on threshold breaches and can raise tickets to the ticketing system, send SMS, and email notifications, allowing engineers to work on those tickets to resolve issues and avoid further impact. The visibility into server health is a beneficial feature that I am utilizing. We widely use various application performance metrics in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor such as database monitoring and server monitoring, which are quite good enough for any monitoring solution. We utilize the customizable dashboards in SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor.

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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 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."

"The best feature in Catchpoint is the alert or the notification my company gets frequently, in particular, every five minutes. It's the notification you get whenever a respective market has an issue. There's also a dashboard in Catchpoint that shows the markets you support, so all the markets will be highlighted graphically in the dashboard whenever there's downtime that could affect you. If there's no issue for a specific market, it will be in green, so in this way, anybody would be able to understand which market has issues and which market has no issues through Catchpoint. The tool is very useful for monitoring activities."

"Catchpoint has a very professional service team, they can help you with the scripting and other functionalities, and they have a dedicated network team, so if you face any issues with the geolocations on the nodes or anything related to the network, there is dedicated support available 24 hours a day, seven days a week."

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

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

"The solution can be deployed quickly."

"SolarWinds SAM is very stable, and we are using it with hundreds or thousands of customers and there are no stability issues."

"The application dependency feature identifies issues between applications and servers or within the network where the application is hosted. It highlights related problems, whether related to packet processing or other issues, enabling the creation of alerts and reports accordingly."

"We choose the Solarwinds based on the simplication of managing the tool itself."

"Monitoring of processes and services is the most valuable feature; it is not necessarily just the server alone in terms of the CPU or the memory, as we can go in-depth into services and processes."

"Extremely user friendly: Any IT professional can learn how to admin NPM in a short time."

"The most valuable feature of the solution is its interface, which is used for monitoring."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"The old user version was better, it was more user-friendly."

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

"Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring."

"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."

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

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"The product needs to reduce its price."

"The tool’s report feature created issues for us. We needed to gain skills to use that feature. The tool’s customization is not easy since you have to reconfigure the whole system."

"AppInsight needs to include more applications, the current list is very limited."

"Downside of the tools is the web console are hung or crash. It need to improve the performance."

"PerfStack can be made more effective."

"The technical support team's response time could be improved."

"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."

"We are looking into other solutions because it is just too expensive to keep scaling."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"The price is too high."

"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."

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

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

"Pricing is inexpensive, starting at 2440 euros. For that, you get the ability to monitor a couple of nodes and one year of maintenance and support."

"We are on an annual license to use the solution. The price of the solution is expensive. The price is based on a bunch of factors, such as the number of engines and elements."

"Price can always be lower. It is neither on the expensive side nor on the cheap side. We have worked with them for a lot of years, so we get a discount due to the size of the installation."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

Retailer

Educational Organization

13%

University

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	21

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	8
Large Enterprise	21

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is that you just need to buy the licenses, and the team sends you the license keys, which is pretty easy. I am not sure about cost-effectivene...

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

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.

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What is your primary use case for Catchpoint?

My main use case for Catchpoint is to check website availability in different regions so that we can be aware of any downtimes. A specific example of how I have used Catchpoint to check website ava...

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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 is definitely room for improvement besides simplifying its setup. As a non-technical person, I believe the dashboards could be improved. Everything we use appears on video walls, and we need ...

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What is your primary use case for SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor?

I am doing research as we currently have both solutions, and I am looking to see if we need both or can manage with one. Currently, the outcome indicates that we need both. The focus point is diffe...

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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

SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor provides comprehensive server, application, and infrastructure monitoring, focusing on integration, application dependency, and network insights through user-friendly interfaces and detailed dashboards.

With AppStack and AppInsight support, SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor offers service management, detailed resource dashboards, and integration capabilities. It monitors hardware metrics and performance parameters, facilitating database and network insights for cloud and virtual environments. Robust alerting, predictive analytics, and capacity planning ensure efficient management of server health and application performance.

What are the key features?

Integration: Seamlessly connects with existing tools.
AppStack: Provides a holistic view of applications.
AppInsight: Supports widely-used applications.
SNMP Polling: Efficient network data collection.
Diagnostics: Real-time troubleshooting.
Customizable Dashboards: Tailored monitoring views.

What benefits should users expect?

Comprehensive Monitoring: Extends from servers to databases.
Transparent Control: Enhances visibility into performance metrics.
User-Friendly: Simplifies proactive monitoring with alerts.
Predictive Features: Supports capacity and trend planning.

Industries implement SolarWinds Server and Application Monitor to enhance server utilization reporting, network configuration, and AV equipment performance tracking. They benefit from monitoring critical services across diverse deployment models, improving management efficiency and decision-making.

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Andr. L. Riis AS, NetSuite

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