Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

You can't fix what you can't see, especially when the problem isn't in your infrastructure. #ipm

Most teams monitor from the inside, tracking internal metrics, logs, and uptime. But internal health doesn’t always reflect what your users experience. The internet is made up of many parts you don’t own (ISPs, CDNs, DNS, cloud providers), and any one of them can introduce friction. That’s why monitoring from the outside in matters. By testing from real user vantage points, you get a clearer picture of network reachability and performance as it’s actually experienced.

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.

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.

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.