Ten Tips for an Effective Monitoring Strategy
By Dawn Parzych
This is the second blog in a series of three in which I expand on some of the
points raised in O’Reilly Media’s DevOps for Media & Entertainment
report. The first post covered the two essential aspects of DevOps that are
often overlooked: communication and empathy. Today, we dive into a more
technical topic – monitoring.
Monitoring is essential. It tells you if your service is up, down, fast,
slow, and functioning as designed. When something inevitably breaks, a
monitoring tool can notify you via alerts and help diagnose the problem. An
effective monitoring strategy can allow organizations to reap significant
benefits including:
Protecting revenue, brand, and security Identification of issues before
customers are impacted Creating feedback loops and stability Gathering
information on usage and usability ... (more)
FinTech's Performance and User Experience
By Craig Lowell
In Michael Lewis’s 2013 best-seller Flash Boys, in which he takes a deep
dive into the world of high-speed trading, he reveals how certain financial
insiders had managed to game the system by reducing latency as much as
possible in order to get an advantage over their competitors. Lewis showed
how a fiberoptic connection that is just a millisecond or two faster than
someone else’s can allow automated trading software to conduct transactions
at the lowest possible prices. For the user (or machine) that had just the
tiniest... (more)
A Honeywell Monitoring Story
By Craig Lowell
Service providers have long been lauded for a willingness to ‘eat their own
dog food,’ i.e. to use their own products or services for internal
operations and/or development.
For Catchpoint, that means that we use our own digital experience monitoring
platform to ensure that the platform itself is running optimally. Regular
tests of our own infrastructure ensure that our customers are not being
hampered by performance issues on our end.
For a commercial enterprise company like Honeywell, which manufactures
thousands of different produc... (more)
Web Performance 101: Monitoring APIs
By Kameerath Kareem
We have already established the importance of APIs in today’s digital world
(read about it here). With APIs playing such an important role in keeping us
connected, it’s necessary to maintain the API’s performance as well as
availability. There are multiple aspects to consider when monitoring APIs,
from integration to performance issues, therefore a general monitoring
strategy that only accounts for up-time is not ideal.
What can go wrong?
APIs power complex integrations and allow disparate applications to work
together to b... (more)
Understanding Speed Index
By Moiz Khan
There’s a lot of buzz around the speed index metric, but what exactly is
this metric and how is it calculated? Even more so, why do we need a new
metric when there are so many already on the plate? This article gives you
detailed answers to these questions.
What is speed index?
User expectations have changed drastically, webpages are expected to load
faster with all elements rendering as soon as possible; user frustration
increases if the visual content of the page is slow to load.
There are several metrics used to measure user experience, b... (more)
Catchpoint radically transforms the way businesses manage, monitor, and test the performance of online applications. Truly understand and improve user experience with clear visibility into complex, distributed online systems.
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