Solid product with many opportunities in Prod support, QA, API test, and more.
What do you like best about the product?
Catchpoint is often described as an 'automated synthetic test tool' - and it can be. But scratch the surface and you will find many other abilities - for example a worldwide network of test nodes for frontend testing. In addition,
For example, API testing
For example, API testing
What do you dislike about the product?
The frontend could use a little work as it's somewhat dated. Be great to have additional pro services bench strength too.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Started with production support - reliability and performance testing. This tool spans our code - and all our vendors using the 'broswer' as the final arbitor. We are now expanding to API/QA testing. Those tests will, eventually, be promoted to production support to complete the devops cycle.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Don't think of CP as a 'synthetics' tool, think of it in terms of the challenges you need to address - and then leverage the CP team to help you meet those objecives.