Catchpoint probes the network. Nova probes the entire stack and resolves what breaks.
Catchpoint is the gold standard for synthetic and digital experience monitoring. Nova is the platform that turns those signals into incidents, runbooks, and auto-remediation.
Catchpoint dominates synthetic and DEM. Nova matches synthetic coverage and adds APM, infrastructure, incidents, on-call, runbooks, and remediation.
| Capability | Nova AI Ops | Catchpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Synthetic Monitoring | ✓ 15 global locations, AI synthetic monitoring | ✓ Industry-leading synthetic + DEM (signature feature) |
| Internet / SaaS observability | ~ Synthetic from 15 locations | ✓ Massive global vantage points (signature feature) |
| Network Monitoring | ✓ Network observability + topology + AI root-cause | ✓ Strong BGP + tracerouting |
| Real User Monitoring | ✓ Built-in RUM | ✓ RUM available |
| APM / Tracing | ✓ Flame graphs, service maps, SLA alerts | ✗ No application tracing |
| Infrastructure Monitoring | ✓ Full-stack monitoring with AI anomaly detection | ✗ Not its job |
| Incident Management | ✓ Built-in incident lifecycle, war rooms, post-mortems | ✗ Alerts only, no incident lifecycle |
| AI Agents | ✓ 100+ specialized agents for detection, diagnosis, remediation, postmortems | ~ AI insights, no autonomous agents |
| Auto-Remediation | ✓ 78% incidents auto-resolved in <90s | ✗ No remediation |
| On-Call Scheduling | ✓ Follow-the-sun, zero-gap scheduling | ✗ Routes alerts to PagerDuty |
| Pricing | ✓ Per-user pricing, Basic tier, no per-host/per-GB overages | ~ Per test, enterprise contracts |
| Setup Time | ✓ Under 3 minutes, one-command install | ✓ Fast for cloud agents |
Catchpoint is priced per test and per agent through enterprise contracts. It owns synthetic: observability, incidents, and on-call live elsewhere. Nova consolidates them.
Full platform: monitoring, incidents, AI agents, runbooks, on-call, logs, tracing, auto-remediation. Plans from $20/month. See pricing.
Synthetic tests, transactions, and agents are priced separately. Long-term enterprise contracts are typical.
Catchpoint is the synthetic layer. To run an SRE team you still need APM, infrastructure, incidents, on-call, and a status page. Nova bundles them all.
Catchpoint pricing requires a quote. Catchpoint is a trademark of its respective owner. Nova AI Ops is not affiliated with or endorsed by Catchpoint.
Catchpoint is essential when synthetic + DEM is your top priority:
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