Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

May 2020

Benchmarking End User Experience with Web Vitals

Most business verticals are now digitized. Consumers prefer online shopping, rather than going to a store. Within a few clicks, you can purchase any item of your choice and get it delivered to your doorstep. One of the key reasons for online businesses gaining popularity is their time-saving nature. So, the main goal of any website should be to deliver the best end-user experience.

Monitoring APIs for Better Performance

In this week’s Tip Tuesday, we are focusing on API monitoring. APIs are a set of rules or standards, which extend the functionality of an application, allowing different applications and/or programs to interact. These little helpers are built with flexibility and ease of integration in mind. APIs simplify programming, allowing developers to build complex applications without having to worry about usability.

Building an Effective Alert Strategy

Alerts are an essential part of performance monitoring. Alerts and notifications need to be sent out as soon as an issue is identified, allowing you to know about any problems before your customers do. In this week’s Tip Tuesday, we look at building an effective alert strategy and how to utilize Catchpoint Alerts so that you can quickly and effectively leverage the information provided to take carefully targeted action and improve your MTTR. Building an effective alert strategy is important.

Three Ways to Improve Service Reliability

The move to a more hybrid and distributed application architecture has pushed cloud providers to offer higher availability. Availability has become the key differentiator among competitors. The focus on offering higher and higher availability comes at the cost of other vital performance factors such as service reliability. This blog discusses some of the important takeaways from our recent on-demand webcast on improving service reliability.

Tip of the Day - Effective DEM

A truly comprehensive Digital Experience Monitoring strategy requires monitoring from the perspective of the end user with an outside-in approach. Solutions that claim to offer DEM often use nodes placed in cloud providers to conduct synthetic monitoring tests, which doesn't emulate the flow of traffic from actual users. Learn how Catchpoint's DEM platform provides true observability data that ensures availability, reachability, performance, and reliability through proactive synthetic and real user monitoring.