Catchpoint vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

Catchpoint and Splunk are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.0, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3. Catchpoint holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to Splunk’s 4.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 11, 2025

Splunk AppDynamics and Catchpoint compete in the application performance monitoring space. Based on comparisons, AppDynamics seems to have the upper hand in application-centric functionalities while Catchpoint excels in network monitoring.

Features: AppDynamics offers application performance monitoring with code-level diagnostics, business transaction tracking, and application flow mapping. Its debugging capabilities and proactive alerting are highly valued. Catchpoint is notable for synthetic monitoring, offering extensive network insights and thorough API monitoring capabilities, making it superior in internet performance monitoring.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest AppDynamics improve its user-friendliness, simplify the UI, enhance network integration, and support evolving technologies like microservices. Catchpoint could improve on UI complexity and ease of custom test configuration. Both products would benefit from more intuitive interfaces and better integration capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppDynamics supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments with consistent, accessible technical support. Catchpoint offers flexible deployment options and strong cloud capabilities, receiving praise for responsive support but showing challenges with real-time issue resolution compared to AppDynamics.

Pricing and ROI: AppDynamics is considered expensive but offers significant ROI through performance improvements. Its pricing structure is complex, though flexible. Catchpoint uses a consumption-based model, advantageous for targeted deployments, but is viewed as costly compared to the industry average. It is reliable for large enterprises focused on network and synthetic monitoring.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

37th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (58th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (10th)

Splunk AppDynamics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

250

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (5th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)

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 Splunk AppDynamics is 4.6%, down from 5.7% 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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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Application performance management and error resolution improved with data-driven insights

Dynatrace has multiple functions compared to Splunk AppDynamics, so Splunk AppDynamics should add those functions, which are not available as of now. Dynatrace has a universal agent that collects all information related to their CI, and if one CI has multiple languages, then there is no need to instrument multiple agents. However, Splunk AppDynamics requires multiple agents; if I have one server with multiple applications in different languages, then I need to instrument different agents for each application. Splunk AppDynamics should work with Dynatrace with one single universal agent that works with all application languages, eliminating the need for multiple implementations.

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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 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."

"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."

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

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

"The most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI."

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

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

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

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"Error analysis in the troubleshooting sections go straight to the point."

"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."

"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."

"It is a wonderful monitoring tool that manages various aspects such as system resources (CPU, RAM), mobile performance, and infrastructure monitoring."

"That visual representation’s been really good, also the overhead that AppDynamics creates is quite small. We've tried Dynatrace in the past. Some of the applications didn't work as well with Dynatrace."

"All the metrics are baselines in networks, infrastructure, application, and user experience. AppDynamics offers its own query language. It is called ADQL. You can write code of any kind to do queries and analysis and you can use those within the reporting or within other research."

"We can see the customer's path from their computer to the backend systems."

"The customer service and support are helpful and responsive."

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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."

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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"The limitations are often due to the vendors not supplying all the profiling features to AppDynamics."

"AppDynamics is new to the cloud and could improve its cloud services, they are following a monolithic monitoring approach."

"The tool should provide information like the number of connections and processes utilized in real time."

"The solution is available at an inflated cost"

"It is stable, but the only downside is the licensing part."

"AppDynamics lacks integration with cloud technology. It probably isn't a good fit for emerging enterprises because it's an on-premise solution, and many newer companies are moving to the cloud. AppDynamics' on-premise technology works reasonably well, but it doesn't have cloud features."

"What could be improved in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for the synthetic jobs or synthetic agents, in particular, you can't do a lot of tests with just one agent. You have to install a lot of agents if you want to do more tests, so this is an area for improvement in the solution. Another area for improvement in AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is that you're only able to see basic metrics in the absence of server or database visibility. For the SaaS version of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring, my team just downloaded then installed the extension in an application in Azure to see the application on the controller, so if this can be done in the on-premise version of the solution as well, without needing to install the agent on the machine, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring better. Currently, the .NET agent consumes the CPU or memory and clients usually raise this issue with my team, so it would be good if the on-premises version doesn't require agent installation on the machine. Another functionality I'd like to see in the next release of AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring is for it to receive updates from the file config without needing to reset IIS because right now when you do a modification in IIS, you have to restart IIS. When you add a service to the agent config, you have to restart IIS. For the product server, it's not possible to reset IIS after you make changes to the config file, so if this could be improved, then it would make AppDynamics Browser Real-User Monitoring a better solution."

"As per my experience, the drill-down feature can be improved at the class level."

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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."

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

"AppDynamics is more expensive than competitors."

"You are required to purchase licenses whether you use it or not. It is not pay-as-you-use."

"AppDynamics is really pricey as it requires licenses for every feature."

"AppDynamics Database Monitoring is expensive. I rate it a seven to eight out of ten."

"The license fee for Application Analytics is in the range of 2.5 million over three years, with extra fees for service contingencies."

"As a technical person, and as an application development team, they all understand that this is the right tool for us. But when it comes to budget and financial matters, it takes days and weeks to convince upper management to buy this tool. So they should do something more on licensing costs."

"It is expensive. However, our time to recover has been reduced, and this product has helped recuperate costs and provided us with ROI."

"I believe there was probably an extra charge whenever I wanted to contact the support team."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

28%

Retailer

13%

Real Estate/Law Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

29%

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Government

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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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

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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

Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

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