Catchpoint vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

Catchpoint and Splunk are both solutions in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category. Catchpoint is ranked #37 with an average rating of 8.0, while Splunk is ranked #3 with an average rating of 8.3. Catchpoint holds a 0.5% mindshare in APM, compared to Splunk’s 4.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Catchpoint users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on May 11, 2025

Splunk AppDynamics and Catchpoint compete in the application performance monitoring space. Based on comparisons, AppDynamics seems to have the upper hand in application-centric functionalities while Catchpoint excels in network monitoring.

Features: AppDynamics offers application performance monitoring with code-level diagnostics, business transaction tracking, and application flow mapping. Its debugging capabilities and proactive alerting are highly valued. Catchpoint is notable for synthetic monitoring, offering extensive network insights and thorough API monitoring capabilities, making it superior in internet performance monitoring.

Room for Improvement: Users suggest AppDynamics improve its user-friendliness, simplify the UI, enhance network integration, and support evolving technologies like microservices. Catchpoint could improve on UI complexity and ease of custom test configuration. Both products would benefit from more intuitive interfaces and better integration capabilities.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: AppDynamics supports on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments with consistent, accessible technical support. Catchpoint offers flexible deployment options and strong cloud capabilities, receiving praise for responsive support but showing challenges with real-time issue resolution compared to AppDynamics.

Pricing and ROI: AppDynamics is considered expensive but offers significant ROI through performance improvements. Its pricing structure is complex, though flexible. Catchpoint uses a consumption-based model, advantageous for targeted deployments, but is viewed as costly compared to the industry average. It is reliable for large enterprises focused on network and synthetic monitoring.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Catchpoint

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

37th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (58th), Cloud Monitoring Software (31st), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (10th)

Splunk AppDynamics

Ranking in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

3rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

249

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (5th), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability category, the mindshare of Catchpoint is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 4.6%, down from 5.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability

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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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Gyanesh Rahatekar

Back office at Reliance Industries Ltd

Application performance management and error resolution improved with data-driven insights

Dynatrace has multiple functions compared to Splunk AppDynamics, so Splunk AppDynamics should add those functions, which are not available as of now. Dynatrace has a universal agent that collects all information related to their CI, and if one CI has multiple languages, then there is no need to instrument multiple agents. However, Splunk AppDynamics requires multiple agents; if I have one server with multiple applications in different languages, then I need to instrument different agents for each application. Splunk AppDynamics should work with Dynatrace with one single universal agent that works with all application languages, eliminating the need for multiple implementations.

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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

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

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

"Catchpoint provides a great amount of information."

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

"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."

"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."

"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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"The metrics browser is very useful, and the deep dive feature is very useful for us."

"This solution is easy to use and very powerful, it is a complete tool for us."

"The solution's most valuable features are its end-user monitoring and AI functionalities."

"AppDynamics provides us with detailed information about the performance of the underlying infrastructure, including servers, databases, and external services."

"Immediately allows you to see the relationships between the different nodes."

"The most valuable feature of AppDynamics is that you can easily determine the load on the application."

"Once you get past installation, AppDynamics is highly stable and we get good results."

"I rate Splunk AppDynamics 10 out of 10."

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Cons

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

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"There needs to be an option to capture all the sessions for all the users, not just samplings."

"The network diagnostics that they are adding will be really useful. They could add more detail into what is going on in the network."

"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."

"The initial setup could be easier."

"AppDynamics Server Monitoring lacks investment in new technologies like Kubernetes and cloud solutions."

"Customization requires a few manual tweaks."

"In terms of improvements we would like to see, we want to understand what the battery consumption metrics are whenever a user is viewing. It would be really helpful for us if we could get those details levels."

"The overall performance of this solution could be improved. The hot-hot infrastructure features could also be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."

"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."

"There is an annual cost to use this solution. The licensing model could be improved by making it more cost-effective."

"Take into consideration what you get for specific pricing models and how much it costs to add on things you may need later."

"In terms of pricing, I feel that when you compare the benefits that we get to the price that we paid, it is reasonable."

"I would like more flexible pricing: A pay-per-use model, rather than just a fixed-price model."

"There is a license for the solution and we paid approximately $2,000. There is also an additional cost above the standard license which cost us approximately $3,000."

"The pricing needs to come down."

"The license for AppDynamics is procured by our customers."

"The way it is structured in terms of price could be better. You pay for individual modules and that adds on to the cost, which detracts you from implementing those modules and slows you down."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

22%

Educational Organization

17%

Retailer

10%

Computer Software Company

Financial Services Firm

24%

Educational Organization

20%

Computer Software Company

13%

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.

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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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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...

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Hi Avi! It's great to see your thorough approach to selecting an APM package for your MSP company. Considering your focus on SMBs and enterprises in Israel, Dynatrace seems like a solid choice with...

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What do you like most about AppDynamics?

The solution saves time and cost.

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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/

Catchpoint

Splunk AppDynamics enhances application performance monitoring with advanced diagnostics and real-time insights, offering seamless end-to-end transaction tracking and infrastructure visibility.

AppDynamics provides critical tools for businesses to analyze application behavior and performance. Through innovative features like transaction snapshot analysis and adaptable dashboards, users can quickly identify and address issues, ensuring high levels of system uptime and efficiency. It is designed to support complex environments including Kubernetes and AWS, enhancing user experience by detecting performance issues early. Despite needing improvements in network monitoring and integration, it remains a robust option for tracking application health.

What are the key features of AppDynamics?

Real-time Performance Monitoring: Offers immediate insights into application behavior.
Business Transaction Tracking: Tracks transactions from start to finish for bottleneck identification.
JVM Memory Monitoring: Provides detailed JVM metrics and memory use information.
Deep-dive Diagnostics: Enables in-depth analysis of code and stack traces.
Adaptable Dashboards: Customizable views for better data interpretation.

How does AppDynamics benefit users?

Improved Incident Resolution: Faster problem detection and solution implementation.
Enhanced Application Performance: Real-time monitoring optimizes system operations.
Comprehensive Visibility: Provides a full view of application infrastructure.
Informed Decision Making: Detailed analytics guide performance improvements.
Customer Satisfaction: Enhances user experience through faster issue resolutions.

In industries like financial services and e-commerce, AppDynamics facilitates performance tracking across distributed systems, optimizing infrastructure to meet consumer demands. It excels in environments needing precise transaction monitoring and is pivotal in delivering high value and satisfaction.

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