Catchpoint, the innovation leader in Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), has announced new features that aim to help organizations achieve Internet Resilience and deliver exceptional digital experiences for their customers. The latest Catchpoint Platform update adds capabilities that accelerate time to detection, improve automation capabilities, and further expand its already leading Global Observability Network.
Internet Sonar: A simple and trustworthy way to monitor internet health
One of the new features introduced by Catchpoint is Internet Sonar, which answers the question: “Is it me or something else?” This feature provides simple, intelligent, trustworthy, internet health information at-a-glance so users can get ahead of productivity or experience-impacting 3rd-party incidents. Internet Sonar uses data from the world’s largest, independent, active observability network to monitor hundreds of the internet’s most popular services for outages. The result is an AI-powered, real-time, interactive status report that can be displayed via an interactive map, a dashboard widget, or accessed by any system via API.
Internet Sonar can help users ensure a resilient internet across all their dependencies and deliver exceptional digital experiences for their customers to drive business success. A Technical Architect from the Washington Post shared how Internet Sonar could have helped them in a recent situation: “Here at The Washington Post, we recently had a situation where several alerts were firing. We couldn’t pinpoint root cause and our cloud provider’s status was all green. After troubleshooting for nearly thirty minutes, we determined that the issue was with another critical service provider on which we rely. If Internet Sonar had been in place, it would have proactively flagged the outage and helped us discover root cause much more rapidly.”
Catchpoint Tracing: A comprehensive solution for complex and distributed environments
Another new feature launched by Catchpoint is Catchpoint Tracing, which solves the problem of complex, large, distributed environments – used for modern application delivery – impacting customer’s digital experience and, ultimately, business revenue. It helps operations teams achieve Internet Resilience by extending the reach of IPM combining deep visibility into the internet stack to visualizing request journeys through backend application components with code-level visibility into cloud-first applications to understand application behavior and ensure application health and performance. With Catchpoint Tracing, businesses can give customers the fast, resilient experiences they love and expect.
Catchpoint’s IPM platform is the only one in the world that combines deep visibility into the internet, an outside-in perspective of digital experience, all the way through to the application and its dependencies. Unlike APM, which monitors from the inside out, IPM is effective in ensuring great experiences with a holistic view.
Other enhancements: A better way to compare and analyze web performance
In addition to Internet Sonar and Catchpoint Tracing, Catchpoint has also improved its existing features to provide more value to its users. Some of these enhancements include:
- Improved BGP Smartboard, Dashboard and Score Metrics builds on Catchpoint’s industry-best offering, allowing IT teams to get to answers faster and in fewer clicks for improved MTTR.
- Enhanced Web Test Comparison View enables users to compare browser rendering waterfall results of up to four web tests in full detail, side-by-side. This enhances the Website Experience solution to help companies find and fix problems quickly, lowering MTTR and reducing the impact of internet performance problems.
- New API Test Builder simplifies API testing by allowing users to create API tests using a graphical user interface instead of writing code. This improves the Automation Experience solution by making it easier for users to monitor their APIs and ensure they are functioning as expected.
Catchpoint’s CEO Mehdi Daoudi expressed his pride in introducing these new capabilities and products that demonstrate ongoing innovation towards their goal of making the internet better for everyone. He said: “The internet relies on Catchpoint, and we are extremely proud to introduce new capabilities and products that demonstrate ongoing innovation towards our goal of making the internet better for everyone.”
