Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2024

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.

Don't get caught in the dark: Lessons from a Lumen & AWS micro-outage

While major outages like the recent CrowdStrike incident dominate headlines, those of us in the trenches ensuring Internet Resilience know that most of our issues are not necessarily global but localized by geography, autonomous systems, or something else. Micro-outages – those elusive, localized incidents – can pose the most persistent threat to observability.

DNS misconfiguration can happen to anyone - the question is how fast can you detect it?

Even after decades of building web applications and troubleshooting live production issues, the thrill of solving why some random website is failing never fades. Last week, a colleague shared a link to ONUG’s website about their upcoming event in NYC this fall. I clicked on the link, and was waiting, and waiting, and waiting for the page to load and it did not. Finally, after about 30 seconds, Chrome greets me with “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT”

ECN explained: Navigate congestion for faster, smoother data delivery

Fact: No one likes traffic congestion. That’s why no one pines for the days before Google Maps. Thanks to navigation apps on our phones and cars, we can see traffic updates that help us avoid busy roads during rush hour and reach our destinations faster. The same logic applies to content delivered over the Internet. Congestion on the web happens when data packets flood the network, causing delays and packet loss.

Is the Internet ready for L4S?

Today, Catchpoint is pleased to be sharing the results of our Global Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) Bleaching Rates measurement campaign, covering the state of ECN bleaching worldwide, according to Catchpoint’s perspective. ISPs, telecoms and streaming services, among others (this information should be of interest to anyone with ISP dependencies), will be able to draw on this information to determine if your network or an upstream network is experiencing ECN bleaching.