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We performed a comparison between Catchpoint and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
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"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 solution offers three different ways of slicing data to look for abnormalities.""We really need the API monitoring, as well as client side session monitoring, the global synthetic monitoring, to track the availability of the systems from the customer side.""The thing I like most is the tech support in this company, because they have 24/7 chat support. We can chat immediately and ask them about an issue and they keep responding. They create tickets on our behalf and respond.""Catchpoint's customer service and support are valuable.""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.""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 provides a great amount of information."

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"The solution is very stable. We never had any issues with stability.""IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used."

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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'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.""It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow.""Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring.""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.""There are essentially a lot of quotas. Nobody wants to sit and manually create monitors for someone who uses synthetic monitoring.""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 user interface was not good.""The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited knowledge of managing it effectively."

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Pricing and Cost Advice
  • "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 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 is comparable to the last tool we were using."
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  • "I would rate the pricing a nine to ten. It is very expensive."
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    Questions from the Community
    Top Answer:Catchpoint provides a great amount of information.
    Top Answer:I rate the price a two out of ten, where one is a high price and ten is a low price.
    Top Answer:Catchpoint tries to cover the full stack of other computers. However, it is not a good idea because many computers can check the complete spec monitoring, like Datadog, New Relic and Dynatrace. Hence… more »
    Top Answer:IBM's main value lies in its integration with its own technologies, which can be seen as a benefit in environments where IBM products are extensively used.
    Top Answer:Implementing synthetic monitoring for our Internet banking site has been challenging. The installation process is difficult, requiring continuous support and specialist expertise due to our limited… more »
    Top Answer:I would rate IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager a six out of ten. The monitoring tool we currently use is outdated and lacks essential features for monitoring customer experience. We face… more »
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    Tivoli Composite Application Manager
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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/

    IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics on z/OS manages real-time problem detection, analysis, and repair to help maintain the availability, performance and general health of on-demand composite applications. it can gain in-depth diagnostic information for specific application requests to identify the root cause of problems. This software provides a consistent way to manage composite applications throughout Java EE application environments. Set alerts to help detect and fix potentially troublesome situations before they affect users. It can resolve performance issues faster and reduce downtime costs.
    Sample Customers
    Michelin Tire Corp
    Top Industries
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    Educational Organization55%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Retailer4%
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    Financial Services Firm38%
    Computer Software Company10%
    Government8%
    Non Profit4%
    Company Size
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise58%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise57%
    Large Enterprise34%
    VISITORS READING REVIEWS
    Small Business9%
    Midsize Enterprise14%
    Large Enterprise77%
    Buyer's Guide
    Catchpoint vs. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager
    May 2024
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    Catchpoint is ranked 20th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is ranked 55th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 2 reviews. Catchpoint is rated 8.2, while IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is rated 6.6. The top reviewer of Catchpoint writes "The UI is well designed, so it's easy to get the visibility you want". On the other hand, the top reviewer of IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager writes "Integrates well with IBM technologies, but it's outdated and lacks essential features". Catchpoint is most compared with Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and AppDynamics, whereas IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager is most compared with Dynatrace, IBM Application Performance Management and Azure Monitor. See our Catchpoint vs. IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager report.

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