Catchpoint vs Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] comparison

Catchpoint and Quest Software are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 86% of Quest Software users who would recommend it.

Catchpoint

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100% willing to recommend

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Read 22 Quest Foglight for APM [EOL] reviews

86% willing to recommend

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (37th), Network Monitoring Software (58th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (10th)

Quest Foglight for APM [EOL]

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

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Featured Reviews

AnmolRai

Technical Consultant Project Lead at Capgemini

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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Anton Kasimov

Consultant at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Drill-down monitoring shows us the entire transaction chain, from the front end to back end. It needs HTML5 interface.

I want to see a new interface that contains HTML5 features. The current version of Foglight (on-premise edition) is so fusty in comparison with leaders of Gartner APM Quadrant - i.e. Appdynamics, NewRelic, Dynatrace. If you try to compare SaaS and on-premise Foglight versions you can see differences in UI-design. It's my subjective experiences, but SaaS version looks more modern. Hope this helps

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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

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

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

"The drill-down feature of this product was very good. It allowed us to identify the exact page or area of the site that was causing our customers an issue."

"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 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."

"The solution offers three different ways of slicing data to look for abnormalities."

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

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"Capacity on database and file servers. I found the algorithms to forecast growth and concerns particularly intuitive."

"Having standard monitoring features and a central repository saves us a lot of time and reduces risk of incidents."

"FxV is valuable as we can playback the session."

"At a glance I can easily see what is going on with all of my VMware environments, including top consumers of resources."

"Infrastructure Monitoring and End User Monitoring are the product’s most valuable features to me."

"The most valuable feature is drill-down monitoring, which shows us from one interface the transaction chain from the front end to back end."

"It provides a history of the activities on our SQL servers."

"Real time database monitoring and alerting are valuable."

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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"A large selection of nodes are available but it is a challenge to test reliably in China and the Middle East."

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"I want to see mobile access application in the next release."

"We are running a Webmethods stack (Software AG) and Foglight is unable to instrument. We are in a POC with Dynatrace and it was able to instrument with little effort."

"I would perhaps like to see more SSMS connections."

"The “cartridge” concept for every little thing is a bit of a bother to implement."

"I think installation and setup needs little more improvement especially when you are installing with external database."

"The version compatibility needs work."

"It needs a more intuitive way to create and implement custom "Cartridges" to be deployed through out a Federated environment."

"They need to improve the stability of FxM and FxV."

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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."

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

"Foglight can be expensive I would go with the pricing at a three year deal."

"Since the product split – the licensing is a bit more complex."

"The price is expensive for us."

"I recall it being a very expensive solution relative to function and stability."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Educational Organization

17%

Retailer

10%

Computer Software Company

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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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Also Known As

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Foglight, Dell Foglight

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

Manage your application infrastructure by monitoring the IT components that affect application performance.

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Anji Automotive Logistics, Unimat, Priceline.com

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