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Critical Requirements for Modern API Monitoring

API Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Internet Resilience
April 10, 2025

Why Intelligent Traffic Steering is Critical for Performance and Cost Optimization

DNS
Network Experience
Internet Performance Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
March 31, 2025

Connected Devices: Unlocking the next frontier of Internet Performance Monitoring

Internet Performance Monitoring
Catchpoint Platform
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
March 25, 2025

Catchpoint In the News – November 2021: The One Where We Expand Edge Observability and It’s Google’s Turn to Go Dark

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Ecommerce
Customer Experience
Incident Management
December 3, 2021
3044

Catchpoint Ushers In A New Era Of Visibility With The Addition Of 5G Mobile Edge Nodes

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Customer Experience
November 17, 2021
3041

Risky Business: Implementing a Redundant Networking and Multi-CDN Monitoring Strategy

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Network Experience
ITOps
November 16, 2021
3040

Catchpoint In the News – September 2021: The Importance of DEM in a Post-Pandemic World

SRE
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Network Experience
BGP Monitoring
October 18, 2021
3034

The Challenges of Ajax CDN

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Network Experience
September 7, 2021
3021

Incident Review - Akamai Performance Degradation Slows Down Major Websites Worldwide

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Network Experience
September 2, 2021
3019

CDN Monitoring – Why You Must Monitor Your Extended Infrastructure

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Incident Management
August 11, 2021
3013

SRE Report 2021: The Highlights

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SRE
June 30, 2021
3003

Incident Review – Fastly Outage Impacts Major Websites Worldwide

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
June 8, 2021
2996

In the News – May 2021: Staying Ahead of The DEM Curve

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
June 1, 2021
2993

Reliability Monitoring for Improved Digital Experience

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
May 18, 2021
2989

Monitoring DNS Performance The Right Way With Catchpoint

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
April 23, 2021
2985

DEM and Secure Connectivity Vendor Offerings: The Fox & The Henhouse

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
April 22, 2021
2984

Vodafone Idea BGP leak: global routing system must implement MANRS

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
Workforce Experience
April 19, 2021
2983

Multi-Cloud Management: What Do You Need to Know For 2021?

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
ITOps
April 14, 2021
2981

CDN Monitoring Is More Than Just Performance, It’s About Hard Dollars

DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
March 23, 2021
2976

How Endpoint Monitoring Saved My Life (Or At Least My Sanity)

Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
March 16, 2021
2974

IT Operations Monitoring, Evolved

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
March 9, 2021
2972

How to – Benchmark CDNs with Catchpoint

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
February 4, 2021
2967

HLS Monitoring with Catchpoint

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
SaaS
January 20, 2021
2964

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Performance 2020

Synthetic Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Ecommerce
December 4, 2020
2956

iSeatz – Resolving Performance Issues Faster with Catchpoint

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SRE
DevOps
Workforce Experience
December 2, 2020
2954

Monitoring from Backbone Nodes vs. Cloud Nodes

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
December 1, 2020
2953

AWS Outage Ahead of Black Friday

Synthetic Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
Ecommerce
November 25, 2020
2951

Our Customer’s Take on Why Catchpoint Leads the way

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
November 18, 2020
2947

Location Matters when Monitoring Digital Experience

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
Workforce Experience
November 5, 2020
2943

Basic VS Complete Synthetic Monitoring Solution

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SRE
DevOps
November 2, 2020
2940

Event in Review: ONUG Fall 2020

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
October 29, 2020
2939

Catchpoint Detects 50% More End User Problems Than Dynatrace!

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
October 14, 2020
2934

Boost CDN Performance by 20-40% with Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
October 5, 2020
2931

Wi-Fi and Application Health with Endpoint Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
September 29, 2020
2928

One Company, Multiple Monitoring Mindsets

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SRE
September 21, 2020
2922

AT Internet – Elevating Product Quality with Catchpoint

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
Workforce Experience
September 18, 2020
2921

DevOps India Summit 2020

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
September 17, 2020
2920

Evaluating Cloud Service Providers

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
DevOps
September 11, 2020
2916

CenturyLink Outage and Everything That Went Down With It

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
SLA Management
September 3, 2020
2913

Monitoring eCommerce – How to Keep your Customers

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
September 1, 2020
2912

Employee Experience – Monitoring the Metrics That Matter

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
August 31, 2020
2910

Monitoring CDN Cache Hit Miss Ratio

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
August 11, 2020
2903

DNS Monitoring 101 – Troubleshoot Anycast DNS Issues

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
August 4, 2020
2900

Catchpoint Digital Monitoring: Offering lowest cost options without compromising quality

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
July 31, 2020
2899

Three Ways Catchpoint Monitors the Edge

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
July 24, 2020
2896

Maintaining Employee Experience with G Suite Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
July 15, 2020
2893

What Observability Means to Digital Experience Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SRE
SLA Management
July 14, 2020
2892

4 ways to use Catchpoint to drive remote workforce productivity

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 8, 2020
2890

The Need for ‘Real ISP’ Visibility in your DEM Strategy

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
July 2, 2020
2889

Accelerate Observability with Catchpoint and Tanzu Observability

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
June 17, 2020
2883

Building an Effective Alert Strategy

DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
May 19, 2020
2874

Three Ways to Improve Service Reliability

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
May 15, 2020
2873

Effective Digital Experience Monitoring

Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
May 5, 2020
2868

BGP Route Leak Incident Review

Synthetic Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
April 16, 2020
2861

Troubleshoot DNS Issues When “Your Site Could Not Be Reached”

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
SLA Management
April 14, 2020
2859

Better SLA Management With Catchpoint Dashboards

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
SLA Management
April 7, 2020
2856

Edge Data Centers on the Rise

Real User Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
DevOps
Workforce Experience
March 12, 2020
2849

Rethinking Ecommerce Performance Management

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
March 10, 2020
2848

Monitoring at the Edge of the Third Act of the Internet

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
February 28, 2020
2846

Five Steps to a Better eCommerce Digital Experience

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
February 20, 2020
2844

50 SRE Twitter Accounts to Follow

News & Trends
Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SRE
February 14, 2020
2842

50 Service Level Agreement (SLA) Resources

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
January 8, 2020
2833

Top 9 Monitoring Stories of 2019

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
December 23, 2019
2831

Incident Review: Maintaining Sessions, Cookies, & Persistence

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
December 19, 2019
2830

The Changing Nature of Network Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
December 11, 2019
2827

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Performance 2019

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
December 3, 2019
2826

Digital Experience Monitoring Platform: You Get What You Pay For

Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
November 5, 2019
2821

BGP and Your Brand’s Bottom Line

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
October 23, 2019
2816

How to Monitor the Networks You Don’t Control

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
October 17, 2019
2813

Back By Popular Demand: Black Friday Assurance

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
September 26, 2019
2811

End-user experience monitoring: Catchpoint and Google Lighthouse #2

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
August 28, 2019
2809

DEM with Catchpoint and Google Lighthouse (Part 1)

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
SLA Management
August 27, 2019
2808

Four pillars of DEM: reachability, availability, performance, & reliability

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
July 10, 2019
2799

What I Learned About How Facebook Infrastructure Serves Our Photos

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
July 5, 2019
2798

Cloudflare Outage: A Case for Better CDN Reliability

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
July 3, 2019
2797

How to Choose the Right Digital Experience Monitoring Solution

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
June 21, 2019
2795

Why APM Synthetic Monitoring Isn’t Enough to Protect Your Revenue

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
June 19, 2019
2794

5 lessons from the Google Cloud Outage

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SRE
June 10, 2019
2791

Improve mobile performance with Accelerated Mobile Pages

Synthetic Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
Ecommerce
SaaS
May 28, 2019
2789

Introducing Catchpoint’s Managed Monitoring Service

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
April 11, 2019
2783

Web Performance 101: Alerting Strategy

Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
March 14, 2019
2779

What is Digital Experience Monitoring?

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
March 12, 2019
2778

A CIO’s Take On Preparing for SaaS Outages

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
SLA Management
January 16, 2019
2774

2018 outages and lessons learned

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
January 14, 2019
2773

The performance cost of micro-outages

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
API Monitoring
January 7, 2019
2772

Why you absolutely must monitor Salesforce (and how to do it)

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
DevOps
December 13, 2018
2768

Why cloud-only synthetic monitoring is problematic

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
BGP Monitoring
November 15, 2018
2762

How to accurately monitor distributed systems?

Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
November 6, 2018
2760

Tips to improve website availability during traffic surges

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
October 11, 2018
2756

Monitoring blind spots and what to do about them

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
October 3, 2018
2753

Identify website availability issues with Real User Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
September 27, 2018
2752

Best practices for a fast performing banking website

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Financial Services
September 25, 2018
2751

Catching up with Catchpointers on our 10-year-anniversary

Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
DevOps
Workforce Experience
Financial Services
SaaS
September 11, 2018
2746

Bring Your Own Custom Monitor

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
DevOps
August 7, 2018
2739

Tips for Monitoring in the Travel Industry

Synthetic Monitoring
Endpoint Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
August 2, 2018
2738

What Retailers Can Learn from Google and Amazon Outages

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
SLA Management
Workforce Experience
July 25, 2018
2736

3 Reasons Ecommerce Needs Digital Experience Monitoring

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
July 24, 2018
2735

Monitoring in the Cloud Era

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
SLA Management
July 18, 2018
2734

5 Lessons for Managing a Third Party Outage

Synthetic Monitoring
Real User Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
API Monitoring
July 12, 2018
2732

The Balkanization of the Internet Must Stop

Synthetic Monitoring
DNS
Edge, CDN, and Cloud Optimization
Workforce Experience
SaaS
May 25, 2018
2722
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