Complete Your Visibility Stack with Real-Time Infrastructure Insight

No - they serve complementary purposes. Catchpoint monitors external Internet performance from global vantage points (synthetic testing, RUM, BGP). Netdata monitors internal infrastructure (servers, containers, applications). Many organizations benefit from both: Catchpoint shows user experience, Netdata shows infrastructure health.

Catchpoint tells you when your website is slow. Netdata tells you why - the database hit CPU saturation, the cache miss rate spiked, disk I/O saturated. Without internal visibility, teams observe symptoms without understanding causes, extending troubleshooting from minutes to hours.

Yes, but local-only. Netdata includes httpcheck (HTTP/API monitoring), portcheck (TCP/UDP availability), ping (ICMP), DNS queries, and SSL certificate monitoring. However, these run from the agent location - there’s no global distributed testing network like Catchpoint offers.

No. Netdata does not provide RUM capabilities. If you need actual user session tracking, page load timing from end users, or session replay, you’ll need Catchpoint or another RUM solution.

Netdata collects metrics every second with 1-second visualization latency - significantly more granular than typical synthetic test intervals. This per-second precision is essential for catching transient issues and real-time troubleshooting.

Netdata trains 18 unsupervised ML models per metric automatically, achieving 99% false positive reduction through consensus-based detection. AI features include Ask AI (alert explanations), AI Troubleshoot (interactive analysis), and AI Insights (automated reports). Catchpoint provides trend-based alerting without ML-based anomaly detection.

Netdata offers predictable per-node pricing with no per-metric or per-user fees and unlimited metrics. Catchpoint uses enterprise points-based pricing with higher minimum commitments. For infrastructure monitoring, Netdata delivers significantly lower cost while providing capabilities external monitoring platforms cannot offer.

Only via SNMP. If you have SNMP access to BGP-speaking routers, Netdata can collect BGP peer state and transitions. However, Netdata cannot peer directly with BGP or provide route table analysis, prefix monitoring, or hijack detection like Catchpoint does.

Yes. Netdata provides native log management through systemd-journal (Linux) and Windows Event Logs without additional infrastructure or costs. Full-text search across millions of entries with field filtering - a capability Catchpoint does not offer.

Netdata uses an edge-native architecture where all observability data stays on your infrastructure. Only metadata travels to Netdata Cloud. Catchpoint is SaaS-only, meaning your monitoring data is stored in their cloud. Netdata also offers full on-premises deployment for complete isolation.

Netdata: 60 seconds to install with dashboards appearing immediately through auto-discovery. External monitoring platforms typically require significant configuration time for transaction scripts, alerting rules, and test customization.

For complete observability, consider using both: Catchpoint for external user experience monitoring and Netdata for internal infrastructure visibility. If budget is constrained and your primary need is infrastructure monitoring with basic availability checks, Netdata alone provides comprehensive coverage at significantly lower cost.