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By Howard Beader
Monitoring has been part of our lives for centuries. We watch ourselves, our environment, and our habits to gain insights and make better decisions. Even the much-dreaded annual health check we line up for each year is just another facet of this age-old process. The goal is simple: spot small red flags now, before they balloon into bigger health complications later. It’s the same principle that has guided us for generations—keeping tabs, so we can correct course before trouble takes hold.
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By Arunita Banerjee
Modern websites demand constant oversight to ensure every click, login, and checkout runs smoothly. That’s where synthetic monitoring shines: it acts like a tireless, virtual visitor that spots performance hiccups before they can bother real users. Our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform features Playwright support. You can run new or existing Playwright scripts with little to no changes.
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By Brandon DeLap
The evolution of internet-centric application delivery has worsened IT's visibility gaps into what impacts an end user's experience. This problem is exacerbated when these gaps lead to negative business consequences, such as loss of revenue or lower Net Promoter Scores (NPS). The need to address this worsening visibility gap problem is reinforced by Gartner’s recent publication of its first Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM).
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By Mikayla Reddy
Imagine this: You push a major update to your website, confident that everything looks great. Hours later, traffic plummets. Your users complain about slow load times, but when you check WebPageTest, everything seems fine. What’s missing? Real-time insights and proactive monitoring.
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By Howard Beader
As someone who's been in the tech space for years, I've seen the evolution of user expectations and the way businesses have adapted to the digital world. What strikes me most today is how fast things have to move. I remember a time when uptime alone was the key to a successful service. Today, it’s no longer enough for a service to just be “up”—it needs to be fast, seamless, and reliable at all times.
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By Howard Beader
Do you remember Back to the Future Day? The day in 2015 when the world celebrated Marty McFly’s trip to a futuristic 2015 in the iconic movie? We laughed at the idea of hoverboards and self-tying shoes while marveling at how much of what was once science fiction was becoming real. Here’s the thing, though: the future never announces its arrival with a neon sign or a ringing bell. It just happens.
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By Catchpoint
Catchpoint's annual report reveals the rise of operational toil, the growing importance of user experience as a reliability metric, and the challenges of balancing speed and stability in a rapidly developing AI-driven landscape.
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By Leo Vasiliou
The SRE Report is now seven years old. I’ve had the honor and privilege of authoring it for the last five years. This 2025 version included working with some amazing individuals like Kurt Andersen and Denton Chikura. My heartfelt thanks go to them for shouldering the weight of what is both a labor of love and an often daunting, procrastination-inducing marathon of analysis.
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By Gerardo Dada
Gartner recently published the first ever Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). This landmark report raises important questions about what DEM is and why we need a new category now. It also prompts discussions about how DEM, Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) relate to each other and what roles they play in modern monitoring strategies.
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By Denton Chikura
This was an important year for our industry. On one side, digital transformation efforts continue to make almost every business process and almost every human process digital, which means dependent on the internet. Almost every application, every system is cloud-centric, service-oriented, and composed of multiple geographically dispersed services. The Internet is fragile, complex, and constantly changing.
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By Catchpoint
Join us for an exclusive webinar with Ben Good from Google as we explore the findings in the 2024 State of DevOps report. For over a decade, the DORA report has provided critical insights into the capabilities and practices that fuel high-performing technology organizations. This report highlights the significant impact of AI on software development, explores platform engineering’s promises and challenges, and emphasizes user-centricity and stable priorities for organizational success.
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By Catchpoint
Synthetic monitoring proactively assesses application performance, allowing us to detect potential issues before they impact users. When combined with tracing, it becomes more effective by linking synthetic tests to actual system traces. This integration offers deeper visibility and granular insights into application behavior, enabling more effective, data-driven decisions to optimize performance.
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By Catchpoint
In our everyday lives, people monitor various aspects like heart rate, step count, and stock performance to detect any unusual changes. The same concept applies to API monitoring. By continuously tracking and collecting measurements, teams can establish benchmarks and quickly identify deviations from the norm. This proactive approach helps detect and resolve issues, ensuring services perform at their expected level.
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By Catchpoint
As APIs continue to shape our digital landscape, monitoring them has never been more crucial. Proactive API monitoring ensures these "hidden heroes" keep performing at their best, supporting seamless user experiences.
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By Catchpoint
APIs are the crucial, hidden heroes for today's connected world, but poor performance or failure can negatively impact user experience. Proper API monitoring and testing are essential. Watch this technical session exploring how proactive API transaction monitoring can fulfill a variety of use cases, e.g. performance, regression, and functional monitoring. Learn best practices for monitoring APIs in real-world scenarios.
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By Catchpoint
Join us as we explore how Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) redefines network management in today’s evolving digital landscape. Say goodbye to late-night troubleshooting and discover how IPM empowers IT teams to proactively address issues before they impact your users.
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By Catchpoint
Discover how Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) is essential for staying ahead in today’s fast-evolving digital landscape. Traditional tools like SNMP, telemetry, and Netflow are no longer enough—your business needs visibility across networks, applications, and user experiences. This video breaks down the challenges IT teams face and explains how IPM empowers you to monitor critical connections from every user’s location—whether it's internal employees, customers, APIs, or IoT devices.
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By Catchpoint
Watch our semi-annual launch event hosted by Matt Izzo, CPO, and Howard Beader, VP Product Marketing - with a live demo from Bob Ruggiero, Director of Solutions Engineering. We share details of our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform strategy, enabling you to monitor what matters from where it matters to get to the answers faster, and highlight our new capabilities around.
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By Catchpoint
Now in its fifth year, The SRE Report has become the trusted source of trends and insights for reliability-as-a-feature practices. This year in partnership with Blameless, the report contains special contributions from Adrian Cockcroft and Steve McGhee and highlights findings from a global community of reliability practitioners, including SREs, managers, architects, and executives. As ever, we found some familiar trends and some thought-provoking anti-patterns.
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By Catchpoint
In-depth analysis of key Internet outages across the past 18 months, from AWS to Facebook; includes six critical lessons for IT teams to improve Internet Resilience.
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By Catchpoint
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the primary protocol for how packets are routed across the internet. It's one of the pillars of the digital world, but one which comes with serious vulnerabilities.
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By Catchpoint
A 2023 commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting Internet Performance Monitoring avoids Internet disruptions and mitigates risk for a successful eCommerce business.
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By Catchpoint
Supporting an anywhere, anytime, hybrid workforce is now a top priority as hybrid work continues to be the new norm. IDC's new Spotlight Paper provides valuable insights and actionable recommendations for implementing a robust and resilient employee experience strategy to ensure your workforce stays connected, engaged, and productive. Download the paper to gain a better understanding of.
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Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™. The top online retailers, Global2000, CDNs, cloud service providers, and xSPs in the world rely on Catchpoint to increase their resilience by catching any issues in the Internet Stack before they impact their business. Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) suite offers synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high fidelity data and flexible visualizations with advanced analytics. It leverages thousands of global vantage points (including inside wireless networks, BGP, backbone, last mile, endpoint, enterprise, ISPs and more) to provide unparalleled observability into anything that impacts your customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.