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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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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.
Sematext Synthetics provides the ability to actively monitor APIs, Web URLs, websites, and user journeys/click flows from multiple locations around the globe. Synthetic monitoring helps you ensure the availability and performance of your APIs and websites. Synthetics will help you identify downtime and performance issues by simulating user requests and interactions with your web page.
No agent installation is required and there is no need to change your application code.
Sematext Synthetic Benefits
Fix performance issues before they affect your end users Synthetic monitoring allows you to simulate user interactions at different locations worldwide. Synthetic performance monitoring monitors all your APIs, web applications, and mobile apps, no matter how many users they are. With Sematext, you can customize Dashboards and Alerts to monitor critical infrastructure aspects and trigger them when they malfunction. This will help you spot problems before they arise.
Benchmark your website Synthetic monitoring solutions let you look at your APIs from different places during the day. Then you can use this data as a baseline for benchmarking since it helps you figure out what needs to be improved, and lets you compare your service to the competition.
Test your scaling capabilities A website and application are built to respond quickly to users, but your server needs to be ready when traffic spikes unexpectedly. You can run artificial tests to determine how your server will behave under load with synthetic performance monitoring. Once you have this data, you can decide what steps to take to scale gracefully.
Test new product features before launching If you're launching new features, synthetic monitoring lets you run a full test suite before releasing them during peak hours, which is a great tool to have. You'll be able to see how the application reacts under load and whether any of the recent changes will impact a 3rd party API you might use.
Monitor third-party APIs and critical business processes If you don't use any third-party tools in your business, you run into a number of problems related to their availability. You need to keep an eye on them and get an alert the second things start to slow down. Monitoring API metrics is not enough to ensure your users get the best experience possible. Make sure your application works as expected, including logging in, searching, and checkout.
Ensure SLA compliance Whatever side of the SLA you are on – the key is to make sure everyone in the contract adheres to the contract. To understand the performance limitations of your application and set realistic expectations, you should use synthetic monitoring tools if you're a service provider. Customers want to know that the vendor can fulfill his promises.
Reduce MTTR With synthetic monitoring software like Sematext Synthetics, you can lower your MTTR by sending out alerts before the issue becomes a problem. In addition to being notified sooner, you'll also learn what's causing the problem and how to fix it.
Just some of the things you can do with Sematext Synthetics
Monitor & track the availability & performance of APIs
Monitor SSL certificate expiration time
Monitor websites and track various web performance metrics like page load time, paint metrics, etc.
Monitor website uptime
Monitor individual resource performance in a website by domain, type, and response code
Create public status page showing the availability of your selected web services and share it with your customers
Identify slow resources
Monitor third-party resources performance
Investigate slow pages & identify bottlenecks using a waterfall chart
Create user journeys with custom assertions based on the content of the webpage
Collect and track custom metrics from your sites
Benchmark against competitors
Create custom dashboards and alerts based on gathered performance metrics
Debug downtime with end-to-end visibility of application performance
Get alerted when things fail via multiple alert channels like email, Slack, Pagerduty, webhooks, etc.
Monitor websites behind firewalls and on private networks with Private Locations
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At Sematext, we’ve also had the need to monitor application availability. We use Synthetics actively to monitor our own applications and it has helped us uncover issues with our APIs on multiple occasions.
Where to go from here?
Sign up for a free trial and try it for yourself. Pricing starts at $2 per month for HTTP monitors and $7 per month for browser monitors. We have pay-as-you-go pricing if your usage changes or fixed plans if you can estimate your usage.
Sample Customers
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Catchpoint is ranked 18th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 11 reviews while Sematext Synthetics is ranked 58th in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability. Catchpoint is rated 8.2, while Sematext Synthetics is rated 0.0. 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, Catchpoint is most compared with Dynatrace, ThousandEyes, Datadog, Splunk Enterprise Security and Selenium HQ, whereas Sematext Synthetics is most compared with Datadog and Honeycomb.io.
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