While incidents like last year’s CrowdStrike outage tend to dominate headlines, far more often, the real battle for Internet Resilience isn’t fought on a global stage. It’s waged in the shadows of financial districts, within overloaded cloud data centers, or a rural ISP’s overtaxed peering points.  

Traditional monitoring tools, designed for broad strokes, miss these hyper-specific failures. Micro-outages—localized to a city block, autonomous system, or single CDN node—rarely make status pages or news cycles. Yet they silently erode trust, bleed revenue, and cripple user experiences.  

Enter Connected Devices: Catchpoint’s groundbreaking advancement in Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM), designed to eliminate micro blind spots by capturing broader insights from millions of geographically dispersed real-user devices.

What are Connected Devices?

Connected Devices is a new data source that supercharges Catchpoint’s Global Agent Network of close to 3,000 intelligent agents, augmenting them with tens of millions of lightweight agents.

This fusion of precision and scale delivers unbiased, precise, geo-specific performance and availability data—turning every edge location into a vantage point for actionable insights.

Key Enhancements:

• Dual-layer power: Combines the depth of 3,000 intelligent agents (running complex multi-step tests) with the breadth of tens of millions of Connected Devices.

• Real-world relevance: Synthetic tests performed from real user environments, ensuring insights reflect true user experiences.

• Granular frequency: High-volume, lightweight checks identify micro-issues early, preventing escalation.

• Precision at scale: Detect micro-outages, ISP bottlenecks, and CDN performance gaps down to specific cities, networks, or providers.

• Seamless IPM integration: Enhances existing capabilities like API monitoring, real-user analytics, and outage detection.

Why Connected Devices?

The Internet is borderless, but visibility isn’t. Regulatory silos, fragmented infrastructure, and uneven peering create performance gaps that traditional monitoring misses. Relying solely on limited points of visibility leaves blind spots, missing local disruptions and micro-outages affecting real users.

Connected Devices solves this by providing an unprecedented breadth of geographic and network-specific data. By enhancing our IPM platform with this expansive, high-volume data source—captured from millions of globally distributed devices—enterprises achieve continuous, end-to-end visibility, eliminating blind spots and ensuring exceptional digital experiences everywhere.  

Join our early access program

We’re opening early access to Connected Devices—a program designed for pioneers who want to eliminate blind spots and redefine Internet Resilience. By participating, you’ll deploy lightweight, intelligent agents across your ecosystem—whether on your sites, edge networks, devices, or mobile apps—to gather both active (synthetic) and passive (real-user) telemetry.

This isn’t just about data collection; it’s about collaboration. Combining your unique telemetry with insights from our Global Agent Network and millions of edge devices, we'll create a shared intelligence layer that benefits everyone. Together, we'll uncover hidden bottlenecks, validate third-party performance, and drive internet-wide improvements—directly enhancing end-user experiences.

What early access unlocks:

• Proactive problem-solving: Catch micro-outages in São Paulo or mobile carrier slowdowns in Tokyo before they escalate.

• Vendor accountability: Benchmark CDNs, ISPs, and cloud providers using data from their own networks.

• Tier-1 application resilience: Real-time insights from millions of devices to ensure global app performance.  

• API & third-party reliability: Monitor uptime, latency, and functionality across internal and external APIs.  

• Enhanced network reachability: Detect DNS, BGP, or ISP issues causing “available but unreachable” scenarios.  

• Digital workforce productivity: Quickly resolve Wi-Fi, SaaS, or ISP incidents impacting remote teams.  

• Influence the roadmap: Collaborate on future enhancements, including expanded DNS, ISP, and regional benchmarks.  

Join the early access program today  

The first Connected Devices capability: Catchpoint Benchmarks  

Catchpoint Benchmarks is the first major capability enabled by Connected Devices, designed to measure the performance of key components within the Internet Stack including CDN’s, DNS, ISP and Cloud Providers. Launching with CDN Benchmarking, it leverages millions of real-world devices to deliver vendor-neutral insights you can trust.

Why Benchmarks  

In a world where localized CDN performance can vary dramatically across regions, ISPs, and individual network nodes, selecting the right CDN and monitoring real-world geo-specific performance. Yet most companies rely on biased vendor reports or lab simulations.  

Benchmarks deliver precise data-driven insights that enable businesses to effectively execute, adapt, and fine-tune multi-CDN strategies.  

Catchpoint Benchmarks enables you to:

• Measure localized performance: Precisely gauge the speed and reliability of CDN providers at a micro-regional level, with side-by-side comparisons and independent, third-party validation.

• Global reach with hyper-local accuracy: Executes tests across a wide array of ISPs, geographies, and devices to uncover nuanced, real-world variations in CDN performance.  

• Optimize strategically: Clearly identify the strengths and weaknesses of different CDN products to fine-tune your content delivery approach.

How it works

The initial release of Benchmarks executes unbiased, real-world tests against major CDNs, measuring performance metrics like speed, reliability, and regional delivery. An anonymized public dataset enables industry-wide comparisons to benchmark your CDN against competitors.

Benchmarks can also run directly from your website using Catchpoint’s RUM tag, providing CDN performance insights specific to your own traffic.  

What’s next:
Benchmarks will expand to DNS, ISPs, and cloud providers, leveraging Connected Devices’ growing edge network.

Take the next step toward Internet Resilience

In a digital landscape where every millisecond impacts revenue and reputation, visibility is your greatest asset. Connected Devices—and its flagship capability, Catchpoint Benchmarks—empowers you to move beyond fragmented data and vendor guesswork. By harnessing millions of real-world devices, you gain the precision to optimize performance, enforce accountability, and ensure the resilience of your digital ecosystem. This isn’t just about monitoring; it’s about leading the charge toward a faster, more resilient Internet.

Ready to eliminate blind spots? Join the Early Access Program today.

Download the Benchmarks Solution Brief

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