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Can your SASE vendor tell you why users are slow?

When users complain about slow apps, is it the network, the ISP, the SaaS provider, or the SASE itself? We tested 8 DEM capabilities across 8 vendors to find who gives real answers.

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Information sourced from publicly available documentation. Vendor capabilities change frequently — always verify with the vendor before making purchasing decisions. Not affiliated with any vendor. See our terms & disclaimer. Vendors: to report inaccuracies, email [email protected].
Cato Networks
Cato

6/8

Check Point
Check Point

0/8

Cisco
Cisco

8/8

Cloudflare
Cloudflare

4/8

Fortinet
Fortinet

5/8

Netskope
Netskope

8/8

Palo Alto Networks
Palo Alto

8/8

Zscaler
Zscaler

8/8

YESSupported
PARTIALLimited
NONot supported
TBDResearch pending
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End-to-end path visualization?

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Real user monitoring (RUM) for SaaS apps?

03

Device health metrics (CPU, memory, WiFi signal)?

04

Synthetic monitoring / probing?

05

Application experience score / index?

06

Historical baseline and anomaly detection?

07

Per-user drill-down and troubleshooting?

08

ISP / last-mile quality comparison?

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Frequently Asked Questions

Which SASE vendor is best for digital experience monitoring?
Based on 8 checks across 8 vendors, Cisco and Netskope and Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler lead with 8 out of 8 capabilities fully supported (YES). Check Point scored lowest with 0 YES answers. Results are based on publicly available documentation — always verify with the vendor before purchasing.
Does the platform measure actual user experience metrics (page load time, TTFB, errors) for SaaS apps like O365, Salesforce?
Cisco, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler fully support this. Cato Networks, Cloudflare, Fortinet offer partial support. Check Point does not support this. Synthetic tests show potential. RUM shows reality. Users don't care about synthetic scores
Does the platform maintain historical baselines and alert when performance deviates from normal patterns?
Cato Networks, Cisco, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler fully support this. Cloudflare, Fortinet offer partial support. Check Point does not support this. Is 200ms latency bad? Only if the baseline is 50ms. Without baselines, there's no definition of 'slow'
Can the platform compare ISP performance across locations and users to identify consistently poor providers?
Cato Networks, Cisco, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler fully support this. Cloudflare, Fortinet offer partial support. Check Point does not support this. If 90% of issues come from one ISP in one office, the fix is an ISP change — not a SASE tuning
Does the platform show the full network path from user device → ISP → SASE PoP → app, with latency at each hop?
Cato Networks, Cisco, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler fully support this. Check Point does not support this. Without path visualization, troubleshooting is guessing. CISOs need to prove whether it's the SASE or the ISP
Does the agent collect device-level metrics to identify if poor experience is caused by the user's device?
Cisco, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler fully support this. Cato Networks, Check Point offer partial support. 50% of 'network issues' are actually device issues. Without device metrics, the SASE team gets blamed unfairly
How is the Digital Experience Monitoring comparison tested?
We test 8 specific scenarios across Cato Networks, Check Point, Cisco, Cloudflare, Fortinet, Netskope, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler. All answers are sourced from publicly available vendor documentation, knowledge base articles, and verified user reports. YES means confirmed working with documentation, PARTIAL means it works with significant limitations, NO means confirmed not supported.

Methodology

All answers are sourced from publicly available vendor documentation, knowledge base articles, press releases, and verified user reports. We do not rely on vendor marketing claims.

YES means the feature is confirmed working with documentation. PARTIAL means it works with significant caveats or limitations. NO means it is confirmed not supported. TBD means research is still in progress.

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