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Trust Me - I'm a SASE Solution

As we get ready to wish the term SASE a happy 4th birthday, it seems odd that there is still a great deal of confusion in the market about what SASE really is and how it relates to a ‘Zero Trust’ architecture. For many, SASE is a framework for secure network design; for others, it’s seen more as an architectural approach to delivering Zero Trust. So why do we have this confusion when Gartner defined SASE back in 2019?

Combining APM and RUM to Improve Your User Experience

Providing an intuitive user experience that caters to your audience’s needs is essential for your business. By combining APM and RUM, you can help eliminate application issues and give your users a seamless experience. Combining APM and RUM helps you look at both the front-end and back-end of your application, find and fix issues. Don’t quite know what APM and RUM are? Let’s take a closer look.

Parsing and enriching log data for troubleshooting in Elastic Observability

In an earlier blog post, Log monitoring and unstructured log data, moving beyond tail -f, we talked about collecting and working with unstructured log data. We learned that it’s very easy to add data to the Elastic Stack. So far the only parsing we did was to extract the timestamp from this data, so older data gets backfilled correctly. We also talked about searching this unstructured data toward the end of the blog.

Top 5 Web Monitoring Services of 2022

Want to find the best web monitoring service? You’ve come to the right place. There is no one-size-fits-all monitoring service for every business, so it’s important to do your research and see all the options you have. The worst part about that? You have to do the research with your precious time. The good news? We’ve done the research so you can have a place to start in your journey. Determining the best web monitoring services requires research into important factors.

What's in Store for NetOps in 2023?

There are many factors making networking both more complicated and more critical than ever. The advent of cloud infrastructure, web-based applications, and increasingly diverse network environments demand a new approach to network operations, or NetOps, as it’s referred to in the industry. Networks are bigger than ever: they now connect everything ranging from automobiles to cloud servers.

Catchpoint Announces the World's First Complete Solution to Monitor and Protect the Internet's Leading Companies from BGP Incidents in Seconds

Catchpoint's Internet Performance Monitoring Platform helps IT teams identify and mitigate BGP incidents, including hijack attempts and routing issues, with the industry's broadest network of vantage points in the world drawing on real-time BGP monitoring.

Introducing Levitate: 'uplifting' your metrics woes because self-management sucks like gravity

Managing your own time series database is painful. We’ve moved from servers to services, and yet, monitoring metrics data is primitive. Our managed time series database powers mission-critical workloads for monitoring, at a fraction of the cost.

The Hidden Costs of Logging and What can Developers Do About It?

With the growing adoption of remote and distributed application development including micro-services, cloud-native applications, serverless, and more, it is becoming challenging more than ever before for developers to troubleshoot issues within a reasonable time, and that is a bottleneck. That in a sense contradicts the objectives of Agile and DevOps through fast feedback loops, continuous delivery, quick MTTR (mean time to resolution of defects), etc.