AppAssure: Ensuring the resilience of your Tier-1 applications just became easier

Every week, we hear about critical applications failing, leaving users frustrated and businesses scrambling. IT teams are fighting too many fires, dealing with too many disruptions, and spending too much time guessing instead of fixing.  

A 2023 study by Forrester Consulting found that in the month before the study, 37% of companies estimated they lost between $100,000-$499,000, and 39% lost $500,000-$999,999 due to internet disruptions. The costs are real, and they’re massive.  

Large enterprises depend on dozens of Tier-1 applications to keep their businesses moving, and every second of downtime or slowness costs them money, trust, and reputation.  Apparently, 40% of enterprise organizations say that a single hour of downtime can cost their firms from $1 million to over $5 million—exclusive of any legal fees, fines, or penalties.  

Why is it so challenging to achieve resilience and performance? The answer often lies in the fact that ITOps teams have great data about the application internals from their APM tools, but they lack visibility into the dozens of dependencies that most applications count on in today’s cloud-centric, distributed, service-oriented world.  

Most modern apps depend on cloud services, ISPs, internal networks, multiple internal and third-party APIs, efficient network routing, and third-party services—and everything depends on core Internet services like DNS and BGP to work. All these dependencies make up the Internet Stack, and most operations teams lack visibility into the stack's impact on their applications.  

It comes as no surprise that 97% of companies in Catchpoint's Internet Resilience Report agree that a resilient Internet Stack is crucial to their success.  

Introducing AppAssure

To help organizations ensure the resilience of their mission-critical applications, Catchpoint has launched AppAssure, a simple, quickly deployed solution that offers complete visibility into everything in the Internet Stack that impacts an application—dramatically improving uptime and user experience.

AppAssure provides the visibility operations teams need to understand how the dozens of external dependencies across the Internet impact their application.  

Teams benefit from experience scores and XLOs, smartboards, a live outages map, alerts, and Internet Stack Map, which displays a live view of the performance and availability of anything impacting an application. With these tools, application teams are in control, fully aware of the real-world experience the application or service delivers to real-world users in key cities worldwide.

We designed AppAssure as an initial package that makes it easy to get the essential visibility every critical application deserves. It is priced very aggressively and includes setup and onboarding services. AppAssure requires minimal work from an operations team—it doesn’t become a project to deploy, doesn’t consume resources from experts, and starts delivering value in days. The goal of AppAssure is to be a turnkey solution that provides so much value it becomes a no-brainer decision.

Eliminate the Guesswork of Performance and Resilience Monitoring

Trying to predict how much monitoring you’ll require for your mission-critical applications is like trying to predict the weather a year in advance—it’s impossible to get it right and leaves you unprepared. This is why we hear horror stories of APM companies charging millions of dollars in overages.

AppAssure eliminates the guesswork of performance and resilience monitoring by granting you access to the power of the Catchpoint IPM platform in an all-in-one, cost-effective package. This package simplifies setup and management, ensuring your critical applications are resilient—without burdening your internal teams.

With simple, fixed-price packages to choose from, pricing starts at $37,950 for the first year of service for one application, but it is fully customizable based on the complexity of the application and the specific monitoring needs of the business. Naturally, the package comes with a certain number of tests, locations, and services monitored, but it a no-risk option to get to know the platform and make enhancements or add more tests over time.

This simplified pricing and deployment ensures you'll no longer struggle with predicting your monitoring needs or managing complex configurations. Further, our expert services team will create tests and scripts and will set up the basic dashboards and alerts.

AppAssure Features

AppAssure incorporates AI-powered capabilities designed to ensure the resilience of mission-critical applications. Key benefits include:

• Real-world user experience monitoring: Leverage our Global Obsverbility Network with thousands of last-mile, wireless, backbone, and cloud nodes across more than 100 countries to monitor applications from the user’s perspective.
• Live global dashboard: Gain visibility into global Internet and cloud service uptime and performance with Internet Sonar, covering ISPs, DNS, CDN, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, SECaaS, Martech components, and more.
• Comprehensive metrics: Access detailed performance and availability data for any API, both internal and external.
• Networking and routing insights: Monitor the entire path from the user, through the backbone, to your servers and internal network, including real-time BGP monitoring from front-end to origin.
• Visual, interactive application map: View current and historical performance and availability with Internet Stack Map—an interactive, real-time map of your Internet Stack, enabling detailed drilldowns.
• Complete dashboards and alerts: Utilize a full suite of dashboards, alerts, and reports to keep track of performance and what requires immediate attention.
• Seamless integrations: Integrate with APM systems, CI/CD pipelines, alerting systems, Open Telemetry, or export raw data to other operational intelligence platforms.
• Expert support: Benefit from initial setup, configuration, and training by an experienced Internet Resilience team.

Ideal Applications for AppAssure

AppAssure is built to address the unique challenges faced by businesses that rely heavily on internet-dependent applications. From e-commerce to healthcare, any industry with mission-critical applications can benefit from AppAssure's comprehensive monitoring and resilience capabilities. Below are some examples of the types of applications where AppAssure is impactful:  

• E-commerce websites, SaaS applications, and their mobile counterparts
• Vendor ordering and management systems, EDI, and other supply-chain applications
• Electronic payment, credit card processing, banking, and treasury apps
• Operational applications: logistics, travel applications, fleet management
• Hospital systems: HER, point-of-care systems, care management protocols, etc.

Ensure the resilience of your Tier-1 apps with AppAssure

IT teams today are battling a relentless tide of disruptions and a severe lack of visibility. Too much time is wasted reacting to issues rather than preventing them. With AppAssure, you'll gain the proactive visibility needed to keep your applications running smoothly, so you spend less time in crisis mode and more time innovating.

To learn more about AppAssure and how it enables resilience and performance for Tier-1 applications visit www.catchpoint.com/appassure  or contact us at hello@catchpoint.com to get started today.