Catchpoint vs Kentik comparison

Catchpoint and Kentik are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Catchpoint is ranked #58 with an average rating of 8.0, while Kentik is ranked #30 with an average rating of 9.0. Catchpoint holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Kentik’s 1.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Kentik users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Catchpoint and Kentik compete in the network performance monitoring category. Catchpoint has the upper hand in comprehensive performance metrics, while Kentik leads in advanced traffic analysis and visibility.

Features: Catchpoint offers synthetic monitoring capabilities, extensive dashboard customization, and performance testing insights. Kentik provides real-time network traffic analysis, exceptional multi-cloud visibility, and quick anomaly detection.

Room for Improvement: Catchpoint could enhance multi-cloud integration, expand its real-time traffic analysis, and improve initial setup processes. Kentik may benefit from refining its pricing structure, simplifying advanced feature setup, and improving compatibility with certain legacy systems.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Catchpoint features an intuitive deployment model that integrates well with existing infrastructure and benefits from reliable customer support. Kentik provides a straightforward cloud-based deployment model with comprehensive API support, accompanied by proactive customer service for complex issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: Catchpoint’s competitive pricing aligns with its immediate ROI potential for performance monitoring. Kentik, potentially higher in cost, offers a long-term ROI through its comprehensive feature set for optimizing network performance.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

58th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (40th), Cloud Monitoring Software (32nd), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (11th)

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

30th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (15th)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 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 Kentik is 1.5%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Kentik	1.5%
Catchpoint	0.5%
Other	98.0%

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AnmolRai

Technical Consultant Project Lead at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

Valuable monitoring features enhance ecommerce experience while improvement needed in region-specific insights

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 similar data for the China market as we do for North America and Asia Pacific, this would be helpful.

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ADRIANA SALDARRIAGA TOBON

Sales Manager at IFX NEtworks

Client experience and cybersecurity have improved with an easy setup

The solution is valuable for client experience, especially in the financial sector. The most important feature is cybersecurity. The pricing is good, but the functionality is the most important aspect for clients. The solution is easy to deploy and requires only one person to set up, making it easy and quick. Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives.

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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 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."

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

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

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

"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 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."

"During business hours, it has worked absolutely fine without any issues."

"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."

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"Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives."

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

"Overall, I would give Kentik nine out of ten stars."

"In terms of the solution’s real-time visibility across our network infrastructure, I have not been able to find any other monitoring or netflow visualization tool that gives me the kind of information I get from Kentik. If I need to take a deep-dive into something that I see, it's really easy for me to do that. Whereas with most other things, I have to use five or six other tools to get that kind of data, with Kentik, I have it all in one place."

"Monitoring operational efficiency is easy."

"The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there."

"I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it."

"Kentik excels in telemetry within data centers and works well in multi-vendor environments."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

"A room for improvement in Catchpoint is that it lacks an automated page updating feature. My company receives all the alerts and notifications it needs, but the page doesn't update automatically. You need to manually refresh the page, so every five minutes you need to refresh it to see the most updated information. If there's an automated page refresh feature, that would help my company. It's a feature that Grafana has. The page auto-refreshes in Grafana, so you don't have to manually refresh the page. If that feature is implemented in Catchpoint, it'll be useful for the users. Another area for improvement in the tool is you have to do a manual task, for example, when you have a notification for a market, you get a zip code that the user could have entered, but if the zip code is incorrect, you have to manually go into Catchpoint and update that parameter, so that manual step is another area in the tool that needs improvement."

"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."

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

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"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that."

"I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis."

"I consider the pricing model as an area for improvement."

"The product could strive for more improvements to become closer to perfect."

"I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important."

"The only downside to Kentik, something that I don't like, is that it's great that it shows you where these anomalies lie, but it's not actionable. Kentik is valuable, don't get me wrong, but if it had an actionable piece to it..."

"Sometimes, the tool has complications, so we must deal with the additional support from the tool's end."

"We had faced some issues during an outage and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools. It took time to resolve these issues, which is why I give them eight points."

More Kentik cons

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."

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

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

"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."

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

"The tool is cheaply priced."

"We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Retailer

12%

Real Estate/Law Firm

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	5
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	8

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	4
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	8

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?

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%.

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What needs improvement with Catchpoint?

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kentik?

I would say Kentik's pricing is not cheap. From my perspective as part of the technical team, I would not categorize it as expensive, but I know it is not cheap.

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What needs improvement with Kentik?

There's always room for improvements and better relations when using any kind of product. We faced some issues with Kentik UI and alerting, which we asked them to fix, and they succeeded. They have...

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What is your primary use case for Kentik?

We are using Kentik mostly for synthetic tests, and from one last year, network monitoring as well. We are using it for inter DC BGP tests and server monitoring as well.

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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/

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Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence.

With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk.

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Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent.

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