Data & Analysis

How to Set up an Integration with Slack

In this week’s tech tip, we are going to show you how to set up an integration with the instant messaging and collaboration app, Slack. These days, collaboration tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams are indispensable to the distributed workforce. In addition to being an instant messaging system that lets you bypass email, Slack has lots of add-ins for other workplace tools. These include the ability to deliver alerts (with any necessary supporting information) to the right team members, allowing…

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News & Trends

Milestone Met – 100k IPv6 Subnets Announced!

It took about twenty-three years, a couple of IPv6 days, the exhaustion of most of the IPv4 address pools available at Regional Internet Registries (RIRs), and the increase of prices in IPv4 address market, but finally, it looks like IPv6 made it and met one important threshold in November 2020 – 100k IPv6 prefixes are now currently announced on the Internet!   In this…

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Performance & Operations User Experience

Digital Experience Monitoring 101 – Know Your Node

One of the areas highlighted in end-user reviews from Catchpoint’s Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice Distinction was the depth and breadth of visibility our global node network provides.  “Any time we have had a question about an element of our environment we have been able to create a Catchpoint test to measure it. The data collected by Catchpoint tests is in-depth and…

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News & Trends

“Catchpoint is the Gold Standard for Customer Success and Support” – Gartner Peer Insights 2020

Last month, Catchpoint was named a Customers’ Choice in the Gartner Peer Insights ‘Voice of the Customer’: Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics category. Not only were our product capabilities highlighted in the anonymous set of reviews from our customers, but we were delighted to see our entire customer support team recognized for their round-the-clock assistance and the lengths they go to in order to ensure outstanding service.   “Catchpoint customer…

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User Experience

AWS Outage Ahead of Black Friday

Catchpoint detected an AWS outage earlier today, 25th November 2020. Enterprises that had their applications or services running on AWS US East 1 were impacted. Even some of the AWS products were impacted by the outage. We noticed Amazon services such as Athena slowing down at 5AM PST followed by…

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User Experience

TMNA Services – Gaining IT Maturity with Catchpoint

TMNA Services (TMNAS) provides professional support services to the companies of Tokio Marine North America (TMNA), the holding company for the Tokio Marine Group’s U.S. operation. Those companies include Philadelphia Insurance Companies, First Insurance Company of Hawaii, and Tokio Marine America.   TMNAS is focused on efficiencies and automation that help it work smarter and maintain a…

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