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We at Catchpoint are always striving to help our customers improve their products’ user experience, because, as we believe that “the experience is the point.” With a motto like that, you can bet we take the usability and effectiveness of our own platform very seriously, and are constantly striving to deliver a world-class user experience in the Catchpoint Portal. With that in mind, we have spent the better part of the last few years redesigning Catchpoint Portal from the ground up.

In this article you will learn about Node-RED, a popular tool for rapidly gluing together different types of hardware and software. You’ll learn about some of the core concepts of Node-RED and then learn how to make some workflows like storing data from a sensor using an MQTT broker and InfluxDB.

The global march towards delivering operational resilience across the financial sector steadily continues.

In part 1 of our synthetics series, we looked at tracking network performance to drive better business outcomes. Here in part 2 of our series, we’ll dig into the very first and most basic business outcome of using digital experience monitoring (DEM). That is, we’ll look at how to protect and grow revenue by proactively monitoring the health, availability and uptime of your critical applications and services, so you can fix issues before your customers’ experience suffers.

Elastic Security’s developer support team has recently seen a surge in reports from customers about sluggish performance in our UI. Our initial inspection of logs for troubleshooting provided some insights, but not enough for a true fix. Luckily, we have Elastic Observability and its APM capabilities to dive in deeper and look under the hood at what was really happening within Elastic Security. And, more importantly, how we could improve its performance for customers.