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"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.""Catchpoint provides a great amount of information.""The most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI.""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 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.""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."

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"For banking and telecom solutions, it's been quite useful.""The most valuable feature of Micro Focus Diagnostics is the information reported from an application that has timed out. For example, when you're Googling, or you're booking a ticket for Burj Khalifa here, the longest tower in the world, there are situations where the system can time out. There are times when you might not receive a response on the payment gateway or you are not able to find the reservation. The customer only receives the information that the session has timed out.""The diagnostics and configuration are the solution's most valuable aspects."

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"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.""It would be great if Catchpoint could incorporate its alerting system instead of relying on separate tools like ServiceNow.""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.""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.""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.""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 GUI and metrics of Micro Focus Diagnostics can be improved. The metrics the solution gathers can be limited and could be enhanced by giving more details.""The interface could be more user friendly.""The interface is very old, and not very user-friendly. Most of our clients don't like the UI."

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  • "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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    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/

    Diagnostics software monitors application transaction health in traditional, virtualized and cloud environments allowing quick isolation and resolution of issues. It gives you a common tool to easily collaborate across the entire application lifecycle and release higher-quality applications. Diagnostics software provides deep drill down into transactions from the end user through the back end. And it uniquely serves as a single tool set for pre-production and production to diagnose application performance bottlenecks quickly and improve quality.
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    Educational Organization56%
    Financial Services Firm11%
    Computer Software Company9%
    Retailer4%
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    Computer Software Company23%
    Financial Services Firm12%
    Manufacturing Company9%
    Educational Organization8%
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    Small Business33%
    Midsize Enterprise8%
    Large Enterprise58%
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    Midsize Enterprise57%
    Large Enterprise34%
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    Midsize Enterprise11%
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    Catchpoint is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 12 reviews while OpenText Diagnostics is ranked 33rd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 4 reviews. Catchpoint is rated 8.2, while OpenText Diagnostics is rated 7.8. 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 OpenText Diagnostics writes "Very good for transaction level monitoring, but expensive and HP needs better support and training". Catchpoint is most compared with Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Selenium HQ, whereas OpenText Diagnostics is most compared with Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Broadcom DX Application Performance Management and Accedian Skylight.

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