Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Achieving Full Visibility: Modern Monitoring for Distributed Cloud Applications

Today’s applications are hybrid, cloud-centric, service-oriented, API-dependent, and geographically distributed. The monitoring practices we relied on for decades are no longer sufficient. It is critical to monitor all the internet-centric dependencies, connectivity, and cloud application components – and to do so from the user’s perspective so IT operations teams can achieve digital resilience and deliver performance. This session will cover DEM, APM, and IPM and how they can work together to pinpoint issues before they occur, so users receive a great digital experience.

Escalating risk, shrinking margins: The 2025 Internet Resilience Report

When we first launched Catchpoint’s Internet Resilience Report back in 2024, we were already seeing troubling cracks in the digital foundations of major businesses. Remember the CrowdStrike outage? Fast-forward to this year, and it's clear the stakes have only gotten higher. Google Cloud’s recent outage is yet another reminder of how tightly interwoven the Internet is and how all it takes is for one major player to go down, for thousands of businesses to be affected worldwide.

Fireside Chat: Observability Lessons and Practices from a Fortune 500 Leader

Join SAP CX's Martin Norato Auer, VP of Observability, and Catchpoint’s Nick Homan as we explore SAP CX’s journey from fragmented alert management to a scalable, standardized observability model. In this candid fireside chat, Martin shares how his team overcame alert fatigue, integrated observability with automation and BI, and scaled their practices across multiple SAP CX products with APM & Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM).

Why do hotel rooms have smoke detectors in every room, not just one on every floor?

Early detection matters. When a problem occurs, you want to know immediately, not after the damage is done. Monitoring isn’t just about visibility; it’s about precision, speed, and proximity to the problem. Just like smoke detectors, you need to monitor in the right places: close to your critical infrastructure, applications, and end users. The sooner you detect issues, the cheaper and easier they are to fix. And that’s where real resilience begins.

From the source to the edge: the six agent types you can't ignore

Recently, Catchpoint expanded our Global Agent Network to over 3,000 agents. In a crowded space, this is by far one of our key differentiators. At the time of writing, no one else boasts 395 providers in 105 countries and 346 cities. As Director of ISP Strategy, I’m not here to pat myself on the back—my real question is: why?

Getting Started with Traceroute

“Traceroute? You mean the thing I can type at the command line? Why would I even want to set up a test for that?” This is, believe it or not, a comment we hear a lot at Catchpoint. At least from folks who are either new to tech, new to monitoring, or new to Catchpoint (or all three). It’s a common misconception. It’s also something I’m not going to spend a ton of time addressing here. This blog is not meant to convince you why traceroute is super useful (even though it is).

You have 3 seconds... that's it.

You have 3 seconds... that’s it. Today, users lose patience fast. A 3 second delay in page load time leads to 40% of users abandoning your site. This leads to damaged reputation, decrease in customer trust, and loss of revenue. What does that mean for you? Every millisecond counts. If you're not measuring your performance from your users' point of view, you might be missing a chance to convert them into customers.

Invisible dependencies, visible impact: Lessons from the Google Cloud outage

June 12, 2025. A date most of the Internet won’t remember — but anyone relying on Google Cloud will. In the span of minutes, a routine quota update snowballed into global disruption. APIs stopped responding. Dashboards stayed green. And across continents, teams scrambled to figure out if the problem was theirs — or Google's. It wasn’t a cyberattack. It wasn’t a datacenter fire.

Is it the network... or the CDN?

When performance issues strike, the finger pointing begins. But here's the catch: CDNs aren't just "someone else's responsibility." They directly impact the user experience, and if they're misbehaving, your network team will be the first to get the call. That’s why CDN monitoring is essential. CDNs are dynamic and performance can vary dramatically across regions, ISPs, or even end users. When something goes wrong, it looks like a network issue, unless you have visibility into CDN behavior.

How IPM helped a top tech brand catch an OpenAI outage before it became a crisis

Today’s digital businesses are more interconnected than ever. Industry research shows that 74% of organizations now take an “API-first” approach, and the average application is powered by between 26 and 50 APIs. While this accelerates innovation, it also introduces new risks: when an external provider fails, the impact can be immediate and far-reaching.

Agentic AI: Powerful But Fragile-What You Need to Know

Just when you’d finally wrapped your head around AI, here comes its autonomous cousin, Agentic AI. Think of it as AI that doesn’t just assist, but acts. It makes decisions, handles tasks, and communicates with other systems on its own. While it’s revolutionizing supply chains and customer experiences, there’s a catch. These autonomous agents rely on a plethora of third-party services, and when one fails, everything stops.