Catchpoint vs TruView comparison

Catchpoint and NETSCOUT are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Catchpoint is ranked #57 with an average rating of 8.0, while NETSCOUT is ranked #70 with an average rating of 5.0. Catchpoint holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to NETSCOUT’s 0.4% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of NETSCOUT users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Catchpoint and TruView are competing solutions in network performance monitoring. Catchpoint seems to have the upper hand due to its pricing and customer support, while TruView stands out with its advanced features.

Features: Catchpoint offers real-time analytics, synthetic monitoring, and extensive integration capabilities. TruView features in-depth packet capture, application-aware network performance, and deep insights into network issues.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint could enhance its packet capture abilities, improve application visibility, and offer more in-depth customization options. TruView may benefit from better cloud-based options, quicker deployment processes, and improved seamlessness in integration with other systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint offers cloud-based deployment for smooth setup and robust support. TruView provides on-premise deployment for detailed control but requires more setup time and supports enterprises needing technical assistance and network customization.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint provides a cost-effective solution for good ROI with efficient cloud-based monitoring. TruView, despite higher initial setup costs due to on-premise needs, justifies its price by offering substantial control and insights.

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

57th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (40th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (11th)

TruView

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

70th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of TruView is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Catchpoint	0.5%
TruView	0.4%
Other	99.1%

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Henry Mike

Senior Network Engineer at AT&T

Monitoring has delivered proactive issue detection and improves user experience across our apps

The best features Catchpoint offers are Catchpoint Synthetics, Catchpoint API test, Catchpoint Dashboard, and Catchpoint UI. I would like to add that Catchpoint UI is very user-friendly and with a basic introduction, anyone can just get started. When we talk about Catchpoint Dashboard, this is our one-stop shop for all our monitors. It has multiple widgets that display various application performance metrics. We use this feature immensely and it is of great value to our business. When it comes to Catchpoint Synthetics, it enables us to create our synthetic monitoring using Catchpoint. Creating the Synthetics monitors is easy and requires basic knowledge of Selenium and JavaScript. It also allows us to run the test from external, which is the backbone, and internal enterprise nodes. Additionally, Catchpoint provides detailed insights of each request that is involved in the application flow, which helps us in addressing the issue at the request level. With the help of Catchpoint, we are able to address issues before our customers. Our triage time has reduced. We are able to reduce outages and unwanted user incidents. We are able to get to the root cause of the issue efficiently post-implementing Catchpoint monitoring.

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Zotex

Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

Monitors traffic, analyzes flows, tracks packets, and measures bandwidth across our network

We use TruView primarily for network performance analysis and monitoring. It helps us track traffic, flows, packets, and bandwidth to understand our network's condition and detect any anomalies or attacks. However, the product's age limits its advanced features for performance analysis. The main advantage lies in its low cost and reliable functionality, as we have a permanent license and do not require support. Real-time monitoring in TruView is somewhat limited, as there is a delay of about five minutes in data updates, making it less effective for immediate insights.

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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 impacted my organization positively by providing a positive return on investment on proactive monitoring capabilities, adaptability, and being seen as a long-term solution regardless of changes made to the monitored environment."

"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."

"My advice to others who want to start using Catchpoint is that it's more useful for eCommerce businesses, and if you want to use it, it's a very, very helpful tool because it captures data from end-to-end."

"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 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."

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

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

"Catchpoint is a great tool in synthetic monitoring, addressing a critical piece of monitoring by providing detailed information on failures and exceptions so teams can focus on resolution instead of making sense of tons of alerts and then addressing the core issue."

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"TruView takes only minutes to install."

"The most valuable feature for us was the ability to monitor sites and get a nice overview of all the data in a single view."

"It gives us the ability to determine the root of a problem or a network, whether it's on the network side, the database, application server, or server infrastructure."

"Visual TruView helped our network team respond to potential issues before they became larger ones."

"We use TruView primarily for network performance analysis and monitoring. It helps us track traffic, flows, packets, and bandwidth to understand our network's condition and detect any anomalies or attacks. However, the product's age limits its advanced features for performance analysis. The main advantage lies in its low cost and reliable functionality, as we have a permanent license and do not require support. Real-time monitoring in TruView is somewhat limited, as there is a delay of about five minutes in data updates, making it less effective for immediate insights."

Cons

"Despite Catchpoint being very proactive and user-friendly, I find difficulty with the JavaScript editor."

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

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

"Catchpoint can be improved as it has a complex setup and configuration, and dashboard customization and UX should be improved."

"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."

"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."

More Catchpoint cons

"Whilst Citrix could be handled better like their nGenius product line (which does an excellent job) it copes with the centralised type of deployment TruView covers."

"One area that could be improved is the reporting features. In the version transformation from ten to eleven, the platform changed from a Windows-based platform to a Linux-based platform. As a result, the previous reporting feature using Crystal Reports was no longer available. Instead, we had to generate PDF dashboard reports, which were not as flexible."

"I can't give them quite a 10, because from time to time, I'll work with the folks who, not that they're not good, but there are some who are just phenomenal."

"We have faced delays in data retrieval and the lack of support due to the product being out of service."

Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

18%

Construction Company

10%

Retailer

10%

Comms Service Provider

20%

Construction Company

11%

Transportation Company

Performing Arts

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	12

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	7
Midsize Enterprise	6
Large Enterprise	7

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?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the cost was very cost-effective and affordable.

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

Catchpoint can be improved as it has a complex setup and configuration, and dashboard customization and UX should be improved.

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What needs improvement with TruView?

We have faced delays in data retrieval and the lack of support due to the product being out of service.

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What is your primary use case for TruView?

We use TruView to monitor traffic, analyze flows, track packets, and measure bandwidth across our network. This helps us gain insights into our network's performance, detect any anomalies or attack...

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What advice do you have for others considering TruView?

Overall, I would rate TruView a nine out of ten. I would recommend it for mid-sized organizations, particularly those with fewer than two thousand people, as it offers flexible licensing without de...

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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.

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Visual TruView by Fluke Networks is a unified solution for Application Aware Network Performance Management (AANPM). TruView embeds the most important data sources such as packet, transaction, NetFlow/IPFIX, and SNMP to present analytics in a time-correlated single dashboard view. These correlated views help you quickly see how well the infrastructure is transporting applications and how well those applications are performing in the context of end-user experience. And, TruView’s integrated 10 Gbps full line rate stream-to-disk packet capture ensures you’ll never miss an important event again.

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FloraHolland, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Southeastern Freight Lines, Valdosta State University, Everett Clinic, Bioreference, Key Information Systems, ACER, Odeabank A.S.

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