Non-EU vendorNetwork & MonitoringHeadquarters: US

Catchpoint: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Catchpoint is an Internet performance monitoring platform that gives IT and digital teams insight into digital experience across internal and external networks. Capabilities include synthetic monitoring of websites, applications, APIs and user journeys, real user monitoring and session replay, BGP monitoring, endpoint and heartbeat monitoring, and tracing. Measurements come from a global network of agents, and enterprise agents can also run inside a customer's own network.

Catchpoint is based in New York. In December 2025 it was acquired by LogicMonitor, an infrastructure software company backed by Vista Equity Partners, and its website now presents it as part of LogicMonitor. The product is proprietary and is also listed on the Google Cloud and AWS marketplaces. The vendor pages consulted do not state where data is stored or whether an EU hosting option exists. As a US-headquartered vendor, Catchpoint is subject to US law such as the CLOUD Act, so a European organisation should confirm data location and handling.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 9, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	catchpoint.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Catchpoint

The European alternatives to Catchpoint come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Catchpoint

Catchpoint is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Catchpoint hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Catchpoint is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Catchpoint together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Catchpoint?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Catchpoint include Centreon, Checkmk and collectd. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Catchpoint?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Catchpoint include Centreon, Checkmk, collectd and Healthchecks.io. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Catchpoint GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Catchpoint is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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