Catchpoint is built on four pillars of digital experience monitoring: Reachability, Availability, Performance, and Reliability. With 3000+ nodes, 40+ test types, and 100+ metrics, we offer comprehensive 360° visibility that TE cannot match.

Catchpoint provides deep visibility into cache status, PoP mapping and routing, performance, CNAME resolution, and other critical CDN monitoring capabilities. TE lacks granular insights, limiting its effectiveness in CDN performance optimization.

Catchpoint offers real-time, event-based alerting with deep customization—giving you full control over thresholds, test types, and integrations via webhook/API. Catchpoint is designed to reduce noise, detect anomalies earlier, and accelerate response with precision alerts tailored to your unique environment.

Catchpoint’s pricing is transparent and usage-aligned, so you only pay for what you use—no confusing license structures or resets. ThousandEyes, on the other hand, follows a “use it or lose it” licensing model with monthly resets and less flexibility, which can lead to underutilization and inefficient spend.

Absolutely. A wider and deeper node network means higher data accuracy, better last-mile visibility, and fewer blind spots—especially in complex, global environments.

Cisco is following Catchpoint’s lead. Our real-time BGP capabilities are already a core part of our solution, providing deeper, more actionable insights than TE.

SamKnows primarily monitors home routers and mobile devices. It does not offer real-time BGP monitoring, leaving critical gaps in network observability.

Catchpoint continuously tracks key metrics like latency, packet loss, and jitter using synthetic tests (ping, traceroute, TCP, UDP) deployed from backbone, last-mile, and endpoint locations. This allows teams to monitor network quality across remote users, SD-WAN setups, and cloud infrastructure.

Absolutely. Catchpoint provides detailed path visualizations at both the IP-level and AS-level, making it easy to trace traffic routes and pinpoint where delays or failures occur in the network—whether due to ISPs, CDNs, or internal links.

Catchpoint combines synthetic monitoring with real-user data from endpoint agents and browser-based measurements. This hybrid approach helps teams proactively detect issues and then validate and resolve them with user-centric performance insights.

Catchpoint supports scalable deployment through cloud agents, enterprise nodes, and lightweight devices like Raspberry Pi or VMs. Whether you're monitoring 10 or 1,000 locations, Catchpoint can be configured quickly and managed centrally.

Catchpoint offers robust APIs and webhooks to export test results, alerts, and metrics to platforms like Grafana, DataDog, ServiceNow, or Splunk. This makes it easy to integrate Catchpoint into your existing monitoring stack.

Absolutely. Catchpoint’s global network of over 3,000 agents is strategically placed across ISPs, wireless carriers, and cloud regions. This allows you to monitor performance from where your users are, ensuring accurate insights into real-world experiences.

Yes. Catchpoint is designed to monitor the entire Internet Stack, including networks outside your direct control. It uses thousands of global agents to provide visibility into ISPs, CDNs, DNS, BGP, and cloud services, helping you detect and resolve issues even in third-party environments.

CDN vendor dashboards show their infrastructure view not the end-user experience. Catchpoint monitors from real networks and geographies to show you actual delivery, including errors the CDN may not detect or report.

Absolutely. Even single-CDN environments benefit from visibility into PoP outages, cache behavior, routing changes, and regional variance, so you can troubleshoot faster and improve SLA compliance.

Yes. Catchpoint includes DNS resolution and BGP monitoring to surface misrouting, hijacks, propagation delays, and resolution failures that impact CDN traffic.

No. APM tracks code and backend performance. Catchpoint covers the Internet edge i.e. CDN, network, DNS, BGP, and simulates what users experience when loading content globally.

Lack of complaints doesn’t mean great performance, it often means users bounce. Catchpoint helps you detect issues before they impact user experience or revenue.

Yes. You can script end-to-end user journeys like logins, searches, or checkouts and run them on emulated or real browsers (e.g., Chrome) replicating actual user experience.

Scale and flexibility. We run the world’s largest monitoring network, with thousands of intelligent agents at key interconnection points—backbone, cloud, last-mile, and wireless—so coverage maps to your use case and adapts as your needs change.

Yes, ‘as code’ and REST & webhook integrations are core to our platform. Catchpoint offers APIs, Terraform and Jenkins integrations, plus direct connections to tools like Slack, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie, so synthetic tests and alerts fit seamlessly into your existing workflows.

Absolutely. You can build tests with Playwright or Puppeteer or our script editor to add custom logic, multi-step flows, or advanced conditions, making it easy to replicate even complex user paths.

Both raw and aggregate data can be retained for up to seven years e.g., for trend, regression, and SLA management. These data are across many layers (e.g., from full user journey times to individual HTTP metrics like DNS time) and dimensions for advanced portal analytics.

Yes. You can actively test APIs, SaaS logins, or critical third-party services to validate availability, performance, and SLA compliance before issues affect your users.

Yes. You can deploy private Catchpoint agents in your own environments, data centers, offices, or cloud VPCs for behind-the-firewall visibility alongside global vantage points.

Catchpoint goes beyond web page monitoring to cover DNS, CDN, APIs, SSL, email, BGP, network connectivity, and much more - giving you full-stack observability in one platform.