Catchpoint last Tuesday announced a new set of innovative capabilities to advance its Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) Platform. Key features include:
- Internet Weather – A completely new capability enhancing Catchpoint’s Network Experience solution by displaying the real-time status of key Internet services across the globe
- Traceroute Enhancements – Network Experience has been further improved with enhanced visibility into advanced traceroute details showing Path MTU, TCP, MSS, and MPLS
- Carbon Control - Carbon Control is a new capability that lets users of WebPageTest discover a website’s carbon footprint. It exposes every resource that impacts your per-visit-CO2 emissions, lists the hosting providers being used that operate on renewable energy, and provides actionable insights to aid in reducing the website’s environmental impact.
- Enterprise Light Nodes – Similar to existing Catchpoint Enterprise Nodes that allow users to deploy comprehensive testing points in any corporate location, Enterprise Light Nodes provide network focused functionality at large scale and at a much lower cost in terms of hardware requirements and maintenance.
- SLO Tracking – The Catchpoint Platform now makes it easier than ever for users to know if they are meeting business Service Level Objectives (SLOs) targets on a weekly, monthly, and annual basis and thereby meet their Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
- Playwright Support – Catchpoint’s Customer Experience solution is now enhanced with support for the Playwright scripting language, allowing playwright scripts to be run on Catchpoint.
The latest additions, which include new backbone nodes in Ghana and Nigeria, provide Catchpoint customers with an even more comprehensive view of the entire Internet Stack from a global perspective.
Gregg Ulrich, Senior Engineering Manager at VMware
VMware users expect their services to be available. Always. Catchpoint has been a critical piece for us to quickly identify and resolve issues in ways that no other service providers. The new SLO dashboard feature greatly simplifies our availability measurement and reporting. With minimal effort, we can consistently configure our SLOs across services free from interpretation and, at times, contention. The time and effort we spend preparing for service reviews has dropped to zero. We now use that time to improve our services and, of course and expand the use of Catchpoint.
Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint
With Internet Resilience now a business priority at the executive level and more asked daily of IT, Network Operations and SRE teams to fulfil on this, we at Catchpoint are dedicated to continually enhancing our IPM Platform. The enhancements in this launch prove that we are dedicated to bringing the cutting-edge features that our customers – and the IPM market – are demanding.
a Technical Architect, The Washington Post
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 Weather had been in place, it would have proactively flagged the outage and helped us discover root cause much more rapidly,
a Principal Product Support Engineer at a Leading CDN Company
Being able to spot a particular outage in a particular provider before our enterprise customers can even see it goes great with the proactive monitoring we already do. We can tell them, ‘It looks like AWS might have an issue, and your origins are there, so heads up.’ We’re always trying to find those problems before they actually become a support case, so this is another layer to that,
is the outage caused by my code or infrastructure or by third party services (e.g., CDN, DNS, SaaS) I rely upon for service delivery.
