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It's time to stop neglecting the elephant in the room: Performance Matters!

Ralph Marsten once said, “Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations.” Many organizations today seem to follow the opposite. If everything looks green on a dashboard, they assume all is well. But is it?

Demystifying API Monitoring and Testing with IPM

APIs are the hidden heroes of our digital world. They are invisible to many customer experiences. As a result, it can be difficult to think of monitoring or testing them with a customer-focused lens. In this blog post, we hope to remove this difficulty and shine a light on the different ways Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) can approach various API testing use cases with an eye on ensuring reliable, resilient experiences.

What is Internet Stack Map?

To understand, optimize and ensure application reliability, you must look beyond just the code only from the cloud. Internet Performance Monitoring gives you visibility into the Internet stack from DNS latency to ISP performance to API response times. Catchpoint Internet Stack Map is the world's first live visual dashboard, providing true end to end monitoring for everything impacting applications and user experience.

The Need for Speed: Highlights from IBM and Catchpoint's Global DNS Performance Study

Despite DNS being the backbone of Internet connectivity, reliable metrics for benchmarking DNS performance are surprisingly scarce. This gap often leaves IT teams navigating in the dark, unable to effectively gauge how their DNS configurations stack up against industry standards. To address this pressing need, Catchpoint worked with IBM NS1 Connect to provide a clear, data-driven picture of DNS performance.

Transforming IT into the Enterprise Innovation Engine

IT does not need to be a cost-center; this session explores the opportunity for IT to become the enabler of business, enable digital experiences, and align the IT organization with the business – proving its strategic value. Learn how a digital operations center can demonstrate alignment between top-tier applications, improving resilience and ensuring great digital experiences for your users. The session also covers an approach based on a maturity model approach as a roadmap to ensure IT is strategically aligned with the business and is value-led.

Customer Survey 2024: Unveiling insights and impact

We’re delighted to share the results of our 2024 Annual Customer Survey. Participants from some of the world’s most innovative companies shared their insights and experiences, highlighting our growing impact, impressive ROI, increased customer satisfaction, and broad adoption across various teams. Learn the key trends from the survey and how Catchpoint ensures Internet Resilience for some of the world’s most innovative companies.

Learnings from ServiceNow's Proactive Response to a Network Breakdown

ServiceNow is undoubtedly one of the leading players in the fields of IT service management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM), and IT business management (ITBM). When they experience an outage or service interruption, it impacts thousands. The indirect and induced impacts have a multiplier effect on the larger IT ecosystem. Think about it. If a workflow is disrupted because of an outage, then there are large and wide ripple effects. For example: The list goes on.

Webinar Recap: Taking Web Performance to the Next Level

In the webinar, Taking Web Performance to the Next Level, experts from Catchpoint and Akamai discussed how businesses can optimize web performance to enhance user experience, protect revenue, and stay competitive. Hosted by Piril Kavlak, Director of Product Marketing at Catchpoint, the session showcased the recently announced incorporation of WebPageTest into Catchpoint’s Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform, real-world success stories, and a preview of upcoming features.

Use the Catchpoint Terraform Provider in your CI/CD workflows

We recently made the Catchpoint Terraform provider available in the Terraform Registry, allowing our customers to manage their Catchpoint IPM tests with minimal configuration, enabling developers, SREs and DevOps teams to seamlessly integrate their Catchpoint data with Terraform.