Catchpoint vs Dynatrace comparison

Catchpoint and Dynatrace are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #40 with an average rating of 8.0, while Dynatrace is ranked #2 with an average rating of 8.8. Catchpoint holds a 0.4% mindshare in APM, compared to Dynatrace’s 10.8% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Dynatrace users who would recommend it.

Catchpoint

Read 14 Catchpoint reviews

1,020 Views
614 Comparison Views

100% willing to recommend

Dynatrace

Read 345 Dynatrace reviews

30,686 Views
19,443 Comparison Views

95% willing to recommend

Catchpoint

Dynatrace

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive SummaryUpdated on Jul 24, 2024

Dynatrace and Catchpoint are both robust monitoring solutions competing in the monitoring software category. Catchpoint offers superior features and deployment models, but Dynatrace excels in pricing and ROI.

What features are offered by Dynatrace in comparison to Catchpoint?

Dynatrace features AI-driven problem detection, comprehensive monitoring capabilities, and cost-effective solutions. Catchpoint features extensive network monitoring, real-user monitoring, and detailed network insights.

What areas of improvement can be found in Dynatrace in comparison to Catchpoint?

Dynatrace needs better integration capabilities, smoother third-party integrations, and enhanced analytics. Catchpoint needs refined analytics, improved reporting features, and a more streamlined integration approach.

How is the ease of deployment and customer service of Dynatrace in comparison to Catchpoint?

Dynatrace offers simple deployment and comprehensive customer service. Catchpoint’s deployment has mixed feedback but strong customer support.

What setup costs and ROI can be seen with Dynatrace in comparison to Catchpoint?

Dynatrace presents better value for money with higher ROI. Catchpoint is more expensive but provides features that justify its price.

To learn more, read our detailed Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace Report (Updated: March 2025).

Buyer's Guide

Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace

March 2025

Download the complete report

Helped 845,406 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

40th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (59th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (9th)

Dynatrace

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

2nd

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

345

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (5th), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (2nd), AIOps (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.4%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Dynatrace is 10.8%, down from 13.8% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

Featured Reviews

Carl Funk

Senior Manager at a training & coaching company with 10,001+ employees

The UI is well designed, so it's easy to get the visibility you want.

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. The other issue is the cost. The more data you collect, the more expensive it becomes. You sell your organization by saying we can get this feature set, but then you have to walk that back because we'll need more money to run every test. This is something hard to get out in your initial scoping. You provide Catchpoint with a series of tests and get a cost estimate, not realizing all the data you might have to collect long term. That was a big deal for us because we partly switched on the promise of saving money.

Read full review

Anand_Kumar

Enterprise Architect at DXC Technology

Provides a comprehensive view by integrating with other monitoring systems

There may be an issue since there are many tools like Splunk involved in network monitoring. From an IP perspective, Dynatrace is performing well. If they want to develop in network monitoring, they can, as it's part of their product line. It's not rocketry, so they can accomplish it. If I, as an SI, look at it from an enterprise perspective, considering the cost from the client, I prefer not to go with multiple systems, as they don't provide a complete 360-degree view. They need to improve on claims about being an enterprise system. The definition of enterprise is loosely used, however, from a holistic security perspective, including infrastructure, network, ports, software, applications, transactions, and databases, there are areas lacking, especially in network monitoring tools.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"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 most valuable features of Catchpoint are basically the transaction monitors on the API and UI."

"Catchpoint provides a great amount of information."

"One of the features, the scatter plot, is very useful. It shows red dots wherever there are issues."

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

"The product's most valuable feature is the ability to identify and troubleshoot network issues."

"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."

More Catchpoint pros

"The most valuable feature is the beautiful UI."

"Enables my performance engineer to recreate a problem and give the developers what's happening, where to go look, all the information they need to be able to find what the root cause is."

"Provides bespoke dashboards and reports which help our business to grow."

"The memory dumps, the tracing, and PurePath. All the tracing that you can do with the tool is, for us, our life. It's our daily job and it saves us a lot of time looking for performance issues."

"Our customers are now able to control their infrastructure with a single tool, and can easily check the connections with all components."

"Our company gets quick response times and qualified responses from technical support, so that is good."

"We are able to drill down and detect what the problems are; providing high-quality performance monitoring."

"It seems to be very stable. We have not had any outages attributed to the product."

More Dynatrace pros

Cons

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

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

"Catchpoint can be improved by focusing solely on network monitoring."

"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."

"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."

"The old user version was better, it was more user-friendly."

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

More Catchpoint cons

"JIRA integration should be enriched and more granular."

"The one thing I am really missing is the final Azure dashboard."

"It needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically."

"I would like a testing module focused on quality gates."

"If Dynatrace is capturing everything in your application, it has to "sense" that information, and that sensing needs sensors which we have to include in our applications. The more you apply sensors - the more details you want - the more you have to increase the level of sensing. If I increase the level of sensing, my application's performance goes down, because something is there that is, again and again, checking each and every thing in the application. So that load on the applications increases. So, many times my applications used to crash because Dynatrace was working on them. We had to remove some sensing; either we had to reduce the sensing or we had to remove Dynatrace immediately."

"Dynatrace needs to improve its configuration."

"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."

"The AppMon 6.5 is problematic in configuring. It is little finicky. When we configured the JVM, it did not work."

More Dynatrace cons

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 solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models."

"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."

"They could improve their price ranges, as there is no option for startups or testing."

"We asked for a three-year license, and the price was quite good."

"This is an expensive solution, but it is also worth the money."

"Dynatrace's pricing for their consumption units is rather arcane compared to some of the other tools, thus making forward-looking calculations based on capacity planning quite hard."

"Our annual costs were about the same for both AppDynamics and Dynatrace."

"It's expensive."

"The solution has saved us money through the consolidation of tools. With a hybrid landscape, we had multiple tools. When we consolidated, we removed four or five other monitoring tools with one. For the last ROI calculation that I did, Dynatrace was saving us up to $500,000 per year."

"We found a tool that can be utilized by testing, DevOps, marketing, software engineering, and monitoring. Before, we always had everybody doing their own thing. Now, everybody's utilizing one tool, which is huge. That is a huge savings."

More Dynatrace pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

845,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Educational Organization

57%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Retailer

Educational Organization

36%

Financial Services Firm

17%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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.

See all answers

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Catchpoint?

The solution's pricing varies based on services and licensing models. Clients typically see significant operational and cost efficiencies, with time savings estimated between 30% and 40%.

See all answers

What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

As part of the improvement, there are certain categories, like for the China market, where we face issues. We are currently using an external tool, Splunk, for reporting. If we could receive simila...

See all answers

Any advice about APM solutions?

The key is to have a holistic view over the complete infrastructure, the ones you have listed are great for APM if you need to monitor applications end to end. I have tested them all and have not f...

See all answers

What cloud monitoring software did you choose and why?

While the environment does matter in the selection of an APM tool, I prefer to use Dynatrace to manage the entire stack. Both production and Dev/Test. I find it to be quite superior to anything els...

See all answers

Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

See all answers

Comparisons

ThousandEyes vs Catchpoint

Compared 19% of the time

Datadog vs Catchpoint

Compared 14% of the time

New Relic vs Catchpoint

Compared 10% of the time

Akamai mPulse vs Catchpoint

Compared 7% of the time

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager vs Catchpoint

Compared 6% of the time

More Catchpoint Competitors

Datadog vs Dynatrace

Compared 12% of the time

Azure Monitor vs Dynatrace

Compared 7% of the time

Splunk Enterprise Security vs Dynatrace

Compared 6% of the time

New Relic vs Dynatrace

Compared 6% of the time

Splunk AppDynamics vs Dynatrace

Compared 6% of the time

More Dynatrace Competitors

Product Reports

Buyer's Guide

Catchpoint

March 2025

Download Catchpoint product report

Buyer's Guide

Dynatrace

March 2025

Download Dynatrace product report

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/

Catchpoint

Dynatrace is an AI-powered software intelligence monitoring platform that accelerates digital transformation and simplifies cloud complexities. Dynatrace is an entirely automated full-stack solution that provides data and answers about the performance of your applications and deep insight into every transaction throughout every application, including the end-user experience. By modernizing and automating enterprise cloud operations, users can deliver an optimal digital experience with higher quality software to customers faster.

Dynatrace offers an all-in-one automated artificial intelligence solution that brings together application performance, cloud and infrastructure, and digital experience monitoring. Dynatrace accelerates performance-driven results through operations, development, and business teams with a shared metrics platform. In addition, users are provided a full-stack monitoring experience with three patented technologies:

Smartscape - visualization mechanism that maps the totality of everything working in your environment and detects any casual dependencies between your applications, processes, websites, services, hosts, cloud infrastructure, and networks.
OneAgent - a technology that analyzes, gathers ,and unifies all business performance metrics throughout every layer of your technology stack.
PurePath Technology - code-level context and timings are captured from the mainframe to the cloud for all end-to-end transactions.

What does Dynatrace offer?

Dynatrace redefines how organizations monitor their digital ecosystems. The solution offers:

Cloud Automation: With AI engine Davis®, users can see the exact reason for problems and facilitate quick auto-remediation and intelligent cloud orchestration.
Application Security: With automated application vulnerability management, users can deliver applications faster and more securely.
Infrastructure Monitoring: Convenient broad visibility across your environments is provided with streamlined, automated infrastructure monitoring.
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Optimize your applications, provide better support, and improve user experience with a combination of Real User Monitoring (RUM), Session Replay, and synthetic monitoring throughout your environment.
Applications and Microservices: For complex cloud environments, Dynatrace can automatically provide visibility and root-cause answers. It can also monitor microservices.
Digital Business Analytics: Get AI-powered, real-time answers to analytical business queries with KPIs and metrics that are already flowing through applications.

Reviews from Real Users

Dynatrace is the only solution that provides answers to organizations based on deep insight into each user, transaction, and organization's environment.

Barry P., a managing performance engineer at Medica Health Plans, writes, "With Dynatrace, we have synthetic checks and real-user monitoring of all of our websites, places where members and providers can interact with us over the web. We monitor the response times of those with Dynatrace, and it's all integrated into one place."

A consultant at a tech service company notes, "A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."

Dynatrace

Sample Customers

Information Not Available

Audi, Best Buy, LinkedIn, CISCO, Intuit, KRONOS, Scottrade, Wells Fargo, ULTA Beauty, Lenovo, Swarovsk, Nike, Whirlpool, American Express

Buyer's Guide

Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace

March 2025

Free Report: Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace

Find out what your peers are saying about Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace and other solutions. Updated: March 2025.

DOWNLOAD NOW

845,406 professionals have used our research since 2012.

See our Catchpoint vs. Dynatrace report.

See our list of best Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability vendors.

We monitor all Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.