When your network needs more than Catchpoint

Catchpoint measures experience from the outside in. Kentik adds what outside-in tools can’t see — your own traffic, routing, and cloud paths — with deep flow analytics and AI-guided investigations in one network intelligence platform.

Your own traffic,
not just outside-in probes

Go beyond synthetic measurement with flow, routing, and cloud-path analytics from the network you actually operate

AI that investigates like
a network engineer

Kentik AI Advisor reasons through multi-step investigations using real network telemetry and explains what changed

Predictable,
network-aligned pricing

Deep AI-assisted network investigations on data-volume pricing — not a points-and-credits model that’s hard to forecast

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Why modern network teams choose Kentik vs Catchpoint

	Kentik: Network Intelligence Platform	Catchpoint: Internet Performance & Digital Experience Monitoring
Primary focus	Purpose-built for network teams that need to investigate their own traffic, routing, cloud paths, and network behavior deeply — and tie it to the internet path.	Outside-in internet performance and digital experience monitoring: measures experience from thousands of global vantage points using synthetic, RUM, and endpoint agents.
AI/ML capabilities	AI Advisor acts as a virtual network engineer, reasoning through multi-step investigations across flow, routing, cloud, and synthetics, with RCA tools such as ping, traceroute, config diffs, and SSH.	Anomaly detection and intelligent metric correlation across its measurement telemetry. As part of LogicMonitor, Catchpoint data now feeds the Edwin AI engine, with deeper fusion still in progress.
Flow analytics	Deep, query-driven traffic investigation with BGP, routing, cloud, and business-context enrichment. Built for forensics, peering, DDoS context, and traffic engineering.	Does not ingest your network flow telemetry (NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX). Visibility is outside-in, so it does not analyze the traffic crossing the network you operate.
Cloud and hybrid visibility	Enriched VPC flow logs, cloud path analysis, and Kentik Kube/eBPF for Kubernetes. Network-centric synthetics help prove whether issues are on-net, ISP-related, or caused by cloud routing.	Outside-in synthetic and RUM to cloud and SaaS endpoints from global vantage points. Strong for reachability, but it does not analyze your own cloud traffic flows.
Metrics and telemetry	Ingests SNMP, streaming telemetry (gNMI), syslog, SNMP traps, and SSH data, with workflows that tie device health directly to traffic analysis.	Collects measurement telemetry from its vantage-point network (synthetic, RUM, BGP, endpoint). Not designed to ingest device telemetry from your own infrastructure.
Synthetic monitoring	300+ global testing agents with inside-out, outside-in, and private-to-private tests, fully integrated with flow, routing, and cloud data.	One of the largest independent vantage-point networks (3,000+ test agents) with 18+ test types and Internet Synthetics — its core strength for outside-in measurement.
Real user and endpoint monitoring	Not a focus. Kentik does not provide JavaScript RUM with session replay or endpoint/DEX agents; it concentrates on synthetic, flow, and routing.	Built-in RUM with session replay, WebPageTest for front-end performance, and endpoint monitoring for workforce and DEX use cases.
Network planning and optimization	Capacity forecasting, peering and interconnection analysis, cloud egress optimization, traffic cost intelligence, and provider/CDN/transit visibility.	Focused on internet resilience and reachability. Network economics, peering, and traffic-cost optimization are not first-class workflows.
Pricing	Flexible, data-volume-aligned pricing with a predictable scaling model. AI capabilities are included rather than reserved for a premium tier.	Points/credit-based model (Expert plan from around $11,988/year; full IPM priced custom). Consumption can be harder to forecast at scale.
Deployment	SaaS with centralized collection options, including the Kentik Universal Agent and direct-to-SaaS flow collection. Kentik Data Engine is built for high-volume network telemetry.	SaaS with a global vantage-point network (no agent install required); optional enterprise and on-prem agents extend visibility inside your environment.
Ownership and roadmap	Independent, network-intelligence-focused platform with a network-first roadmap.	Acquired by LogicMonitor in December 2025; now part of a broader observability suite, with integration into Edwin AI still evolving.

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