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DZone’s 2025 Intelligent Observability Trend Report captures a real inflection point: teams are shifting from “more data” to outcome-driven practices that improve resilience and accountability. The survey was gathered between August 28 and September 25, 2025, from a global pool of developers, architects, and IT professionals.

Now fully integrated into Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform, WebPageTest is no longer just a testing tool; it’s your full-stack performance command center. From AI-powered insights to automation and Smartboards, the new WebPageTest gives digital experience teams everything they need to move beyond page speed and master end-to-end performance. Test smarter, detect faster, and optimize every layer of performance with a unified, AI-powered platform built for experts.

With Black Friday and the holiday season looming, IT teams everywhere are bracing themselves for what is, year after year, the most daunting stress test of your entire service delivery chain. Under relentless peak demand, every link in your digital experience is scrutinized by customers whose tolerance for friction is at an all-time low. It’s not just about uptime, monitoring dashboards, or technical metrics.

When AWS’s massive outage struck, it didn’t just take down cloud services, apps, and enterprise platforms. It also knocked out many of the monitoring systems organizations depend on for real-time answers. Observability companies, including Datadog, New Relic, Checkly, Dynatrace, SpeedCurve, and Splunk Observability, lost visibility or functionality precisely when organizations needed them most.

As of 2025, more than 110 million Mexicans are online, putting digital‐access penetration at roughly 83% of the population. Mexico is already one of Latin America’s anchor markets, leading the region in startup momentum, cloud adoption, and cross-border digital trade. A few days ago, CloudHQ announced a $4.6B investment in Mexico to open multiple datacenters. Yet even with this scale, service quality still varies dramatically across cities, states, and ISPs.

I'll start this, the third and final entry in my series on APM and Observability, which was originally inspired by my contribution to an APMdigest article, by once again pointing out that APM tools can be built with observability in mind. Many are, in fact. And the ones that aren’t don’t turn into a different type of tool. In my experience, it's more that there's a difference of mindset.

For years, WebPageTest has been the gold standard in web performance testing, trusted by developers, SEOs, and performance engineers worldwide to make the web faster and better. Now, we’re taking that mission even further.

Welcome to a new blog series where we take a candid look at the predictions, insights, and bold claims we've made in previous SRE Reports and ask the uncomfortable question: How did we do? For the uninitiated, Catchpoint's SRE Report is our annual, practitioner-driven effort to capture the pulse of the global reliability community.

Most operations teams trust their green dashboards. If the internal monitoring says everything is healthy, the app must be fine, right? But as the Internet keeps proving, what’s green inside the firewall can look red for customers outside of it. Sometimes, a single change in how web traffic moves can suddenly slow logins, disrupt websites, or hurt business results, even if everything looks fine inside.