Building a Comprehensive BGP Alerting Strategy
BGP route health is one of the most important parts of a robust network monitoring strategy. Learn how real-time BGP alerting can help.
Ensuring Website Functionality with API Monitoring
Learn how a major retailer used synthetic API monitoring to detect and fix an issue that was impacting end-user experience.
50 Service Level Agreement (SLA) Resources
Advancements in cloud computing, edge networks, and distributed systems and architectures have added complexity to many digital resources, and SLAs are no exception. That’s why we’ve compiled this ultimate list of resources for managing, monitoring, and maintaining SLAs.
The Future of Synthetic Testing is EVERYTHING from EVERYWHERE!
Synthetic Monitoring is a methodology of actively probing servers, services, and applications by simulating an end user. Blackbox, aka Active, aka Proactive, aka Synthetic methodology emulates an action and performs a functional test without really worrying about the internal inner workings, very much like an end user (“I am here…
Identify website availability issues with Real User Monitoring
Knowing whether your website is available and reachable for users is one of the primary reasons to monitor a website. To track availability and reliability website and application owners rely on a range of solutions such as synthetic monitoring, real user monitoring (RUM), and application performance monitoring (APM). Synthetic monitoring…
How to include multiple perspectives in your monitoring strategy
The internet is a complex place. Problems can be hard to identify, and we don’t always know where the roots lie. You’ve likely invested time and money building a monitoring strategy. The strategy likley includes purchasing or building monitoring tools to help you see when and where problems occur and…
Bring Your Own Custom Monitor
When Catchpoint was founded ten years ago, we wanted to monitor as many things from as many places as possible. Over the years our list of monitors has grown to more than 20 to address our customers’ needs. But there is always that one service (or a custom one) you…
Introducing the Catchpoint Mobile App for iOS
Phones connect people to the world. An update about the news, text from friends or an email from work; phones provide insights into everything. With the Catchpoint mobile app, users can stay connected to Catchpoint for insights on their applications. The app is now available on the Apple AppStore at…
Practicality of Observability
Technology teams are not immune to hype and trends. Today one of the hottest topics is Observability. Everyone seems to be jumping on the observability bandwagon. Companies are building observability teams and looking to purchase observability tools. Observability isn’t necessarily a new thing. Having spent two decades building, monitoring, and…
A Complete Performance Breakdown of 1.1.1.1: Cloudflare’s Public DNS Resolver
I have always been a huge fan of external DNS resolvers such as OpenDNS and Google Public DNS resolvers. I truly believe that they do improve the online customer experience since most ISPs do either a poor job at managing their DNS or they do DNS rewrites. Cloudflare recently launched…