Alerts are an essential part of performance monitoring. Alerts and notifications need to be sent out as soon as an issue is identified, allowing you to know about any problems before your customers do. In this week’s Tip Tuesday, we look at building an effective alert strategy and how to utilize Catchpoint Alerts so that you can quickly and effectively leverage the information provided to take carefully targeted action and improve your MTTR. Building an effective alert strategy is important.

The move to a more hybrid and distributed application architecture has pushed cloud providers to offer higher availability. Availability has become the key differentiator among competitors. The focus on offering higher and higher availability comes at the cost of other vital performance factors such as service reliability. This blog discusses some of the important takeaways from our recent on-demand webcast on improving service reliability.