Break free from APM’s shackles, unlock true resilience with Catchpoint IPM
Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) detects critical outages impacting your entire Internet Stack – unseen by traditional APM.
APM limitations and challenges
APM emerged 30 years ago for monolithic, 3-tier applications on local, on-premises infrastructure without virtualization, where infrastructure metrics lacked elasticity. While APM has good insight into application logs, traces, and infrastructure metrics, it faces several limitations and challenges.
No end user perspective
APM has no ability to proactively test from the user’s location leads to UX blindspots, as performance can vary significantly depending on location, network provider, and device type.
Limited SaaS & PaaS visibility
APM provides limited or no data on SaaS and PaaS applications result in missed insights into potential infrastructure or integration bottlenecks, making you reactive to issues beyond your control.
No external visibility
APM only gives a limited view of the Internet stack or third-party dependencies obscures the identification of external factors like Internet outages, overloaded CDNs, or API slowdowns, leading to finger-pointing and delayed troubleshooting.
No global performance visibility
APM has no visibility into global or regional performance hinders understanding of how users in different locations experience your application, potentially causing dissatisfaction among customers in specific regions.
High alert thresholds
APM alerts only trigger when a threshold percentage of errors is reached. This approach might cause you to miss subtle but consistent performance issues, leading to gradual user frustration before the threshold is met.
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real-world resilience
APM can’t measure real-world resilience. This might leave you unprepared for unexpected traffic surges or infrastructure failures, leading to downtime and revenue loss.
APM + IPM
Let's compare what you can monitor with APM vs IPM
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APM offers Synthetic Monitoring. But it isn’t enough. You need Internet Synthetic Monitoring.
Synthetic Monitoring limits you to running web and API tests from cloud locations. However, your users aren’t in the cloud, leaving you blind to their experiences. Catchpoint is the only provider that offers both Synthetic Monitoring and Internet Synthetic Monitoring.
Internet Synthetics enable you to emulate real end-user behavior. With over 40 out-of-the-box monitors (including infinite bring-your-own options) and the world’s largest global observability network, Internet Synthetic Monitoring allows you to test and monitor all your Internet Stack components, from backbone and wireless to last-mile nodes, and, of course, cloud nodes.
Capability
Internet Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic Monitoring
(Dynatrace monitors on public endpoints)
Why add Catchpoint IPM to your monitoring tool stack?
End user perspective
Gain an outside-in perspective of digital experience monitoring by capturing performance data from the end-user viewpoint. This complements the inside-out approach of APM, offering a fuller picture of your application’s performance.
Focus on Internet infrastructure
Catchpoint's IPM is tailored for today's intricate, web-focused landscape. It monitors service-based applications, APIs, and cloud-distributed apps, factoring in network complexity, regional performance, and the distribution of users globally.
Proactive monitoring
Our IPM platform focuses on proactive incident detection, complementing APM's reactive approach by identifying issues early to prevent user impact. This approach leads to quicker problem resolution, ultimately improving the overall user experience
Gain Internet Resilience
Acquire visibility into the entire service delivery chain, from backend infrastructure to the end-user. This ensures a comprehensive understanding of performance issues, optimizing digital business operations.
APM and IPM can work together to address business requirements
SAP uses the experience-based monitoring data from Catchpoint to be their 'North Star' alongside Dynatrace.
- SAP used the experience-based monitoring data from Catchpoint to be their 'North Star' alongside their existing APM tool.
- By combining APM and Catchpoint IPM to adopt a proactive stance, they reduced their root cause and troubleshooting time from 180 minutes to just 3 minutes.
- SAP was able to eliminate war rooms and achieve faster resolution.
Don't just take our word for it.
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