Catchpoint vs Stackify comparison

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Catchpoint and Stackify are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.4, while Stackify is ranked #62. Catchpoint holds a 0.9% mindshare in APM, compared to Stackify’s 0.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 71% of Stackify users who would recommend it.

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71% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Catchpoint and Stackify are powerful tools in the monitoring landscape. User reviews indicate that although Catchpoint has robust support and a strong feature set, Stackify's comprehensive capabilities make it the overall superior choice, deemed worth its price by users.

Features: Catchpoint excels in performance monitoring and uptime tracking with high accuracy. Stackify offers end-to-end application performance management, including error tracking, log management, and application insights. Users find Stackify’s features more holistic in addressing development and operational needs.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint users suggest improvements in reporting capabilities and scalability for larger environments. Stackify users mention occasional performance issues and a need for more integrations. Therefore, Stackify’s performance hiccups are seen as less critical compared to Catchpoint's limitations in scaling.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint is noted for its straightforward deployment and responsive support team. Stackify also receives praise for its simple deployment process but garners higher marks for its customer service, with users frequently highlighting exceptional support experiences. This gives Stackify a slight edge in user satisfaction.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint’s users appreciate its competitive pricing but express concerns over value in larger deployments. Stackify users acknowledge the higher cost but feel the ROI is justified by the tool’s expansive feature set and overall performance benefits. Stackify’s perceived higher ROI affirms its worth, despite its steeper price.

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (12th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (4th)

Stackify

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

62nd

Average Rating

7.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (68th), Log Management (56th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Stackify is 0.8%, up from 0.4% 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%
Stackify	0.8%
Other	98.3%

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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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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Moses Arigbede

Head of DevOps at Partsimony

Easy to set up with great custom dashboards but needs to improve non-.NET infrastructure

They need to improve non-.NET infrastructure. We always had difficulty when it comes to reporting or metrics that come from Linux operating systems and Docker containers. For anything that runs within the Unix environment, we always had problems with them, however, if it was a document-based application, Stackify was 100%, it gave everything. Now, the aggregation agent, the metric agent for Stackify for Linux, collects everything. When I say everything, I mean, everything. It collects so much information that we now started to term it as useless data as all that ingestion will just come in and overwhelm your log retention limit for the month and really this spike up your cost at the end of the month. You'll need to do a lot in order to train down the data coming in from all your Linux environments, to get to what you really need, which actually takes some time as well. I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines. Stackify has not really gotten that right, as far as I'm concerned. Netdata has done a better job and New Relic has also done a better job. They need to improve on that. We need to be able to see the individual resource usage of containers running within a particular host.

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Pros

"We previously tried using Dynatrace, but it was really expensive for us, and when we discovered Catchpoint, we fell in love with it."

"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 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."

"Catchpoint has had a positive impact on my company because we have a good overview of the worldwide availability of our sites, at least in the countries where we need to make them available."

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

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

"Overall, Catchpoint has been a strong platform for us to provide proactive digital experience monitoring."

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"The deployment is very fast."

"What stood out to us were the metrics and granular details we received."

"The performance dashboard and the accurate level of details are beneficial."

"Within few hours of install we've identify the source of issue we've been investigating for few days and couldn't pin point."

"My advice to anyone who wants to use Stackify is to go for it because my experience with it is good."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"It is very simple and very easy to configure."

"We switched from New Relic and Loggly as it provides us more info at a lower price."

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Cons

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

"My experience with pricing, setup effort, and licensing with Catchpoint is that it is not the cheapest product."

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

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"It's not easy to set up. It's hard especially for juniors to understand."

"I've not used Stackify for a while, and I'm currently using a solution now that's not as good as Stackify. Among the solutions I've been using so far, Stackify has been one of the best for me, but there's always room for improvement. For example, I don't know if it's just me, but when I try to get the log from Stackify, sometimes it doesn't appear in real-time. It takes a few minutes before the logs appear. When I redeploy my solution and the application starts, I don't see the logs immediately, and it would take two to three minutes before I see the logs. I don't know if other customers have a similar experience. It's the wait time for the logs to appear that's a concern for me, could be improved, and is what the Stackify team should be looking into. In terms of any additional feature that I'd like added to the solution, I'm not sure if Stackify has a way to export logs out. I've been trying to do it. On the solution, you can click on a spiral-like icon and it shows you the entire error, and I'd prefer an export button that would let me download the error and save that into a text file, for example, so it'll be available on my local machine for me to reference it, especially because the log keeps going and as you're using the solution, the system keeps pushing messages on to Stackify, so if I'm looking at a particular error at 12:05 PM, for example, by the time I go back to my system and would like to revisit the error at 12:25 PM, on Stackify, the logs would have gone past that level and I won't see it again which makes it difficult. When you now go back to that timestamp, you don't tend to see it immediately, but if the solution had an export feature for me to save that particular error information on my local machine for reference at a later time, I won't have to go back to Stackify. I just go to that log, specifically to that particular export that I've received on my local machine. I can get it and review it, and it would be easier that way versus me going back to Stackify to find that particular error and request that particular information."

"One thing that happens as a new user on Stackify is when you install the agent it pulls everything and if you're not careful, your log allowance will just be exhausted as you are actually pulling too much data."

"I'm looking to see more performance tools, but heard that they are going to release some."

"The search feature could be improved."

"It should be easily scalable and configurable in different instances."

"Better mobile support."

"I would like to be able to see metrics about individual running containers on the host machines."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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 varies based on services and licensing models."

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

"The price is variable. It depends on how much data we have received in that particular month. Usually, it goes up to $2,000, or, at times, $3,000 USD per month."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

15%

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

10%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Construction Company

19%

Comms Service Provider

19%

Outsourcing Company

Media Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	22

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Company Size	Count
Small Business	3
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	2

Questions from the Community

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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.

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Stackify enhances application performance monitoring with features like detailed logging and effective filtering options, integrating capabilities to eliminate the need for multiple tools, and providing rapid deployment and stable performance.

Stackify offers a comprehensive solution for business insight through custom dashboards, error monitoring, load management, and application scoring. Its ability to visualize performance by creating responsive dashboards helps connect business and technical teams. Despite its strengths, users seek improvements such as better mobile support, real-time log appearance, and Docker documentation. Enhanced Linux support and agent memory optimization are also desired, along with better visibility into container and application performance metrics. Integrating more plugins and options would make Stackify a more robust monitoring tool.

What are the key features of Stackify?

Detailed Log and Error Data: Provides in-depth traces and logs for error and data analysis.
Custom Dashboards: Offers business insights and application scoring through tailored dashboards.
Performance Metrics: Monitors application and server performance effectively.
Simple Configuration: Ensures easier setup and deployment without complexities.
Filtering Options: Enables effective management of logs and errors through filters.

What benefits should be expected from using Stackify?

Improved Performance Monitoring: Provides tools to identify root causes and enhance application and server monitoring.
Resource Management: Manages server utilization and handles resource spikes efficiently.
Proactive Alerts: Allows setting up alerts across platforms like AWS and Docker.
Log Aggregation: Compiles logs for testing and analysis to improve system performance.

Organizations across industries use Stackify for extensive application performance monitoring, particularly in testing environments. It is crucial for analyzing database calls, third-party requests, and aggregating logs. Its capabilities in monitoring across AWS and Docker environments make it especially valuable for dynamic and distributed infrastructures.

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MyRacePass, ClearSale, Newitts, Carbonite, Boston Software, Children's International, Starkwood Media Group, Fewzion

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