Last week, I received a phone call from the Head of Observability at a large global enterprise firm. He has been in the monitoring space for almost three decades working with various organizations and has experience with most monitoring tools. The first thing he asked was, “I have used several synthetic monitoring solutions right from basic HTTP to comprehensive user journey capable tools. I would like to know how Catchpoint is different from the rest.”

The final episode in the MIT Sloan School of Management CIO Symposium series took place on 14th October and ended with a focus on digital transformation, offered by a diverse set of business leaders across a range of industries. The previous two episodes focussed on the shift in workplace and how enterprises are handling the new normal.

Today’s Tip focuses on one of Catchpoint’s core functionalities: our real user monitoring or RUM solution. While recording and replaying transactions with Catchpoint’s synthetic monitoring offering is undeniably robust and powerful thanks to our 830+ worldwide monitoring locations, it doesn’t change the inherent value of live data when it comes to analyzing real user experience.

We’re thrilled to have earned the distinction of being recognized as a Customer’s Choice in the October 2020 Gartner Peer Insights’ ‘Voice of the Customer’: Network Performance Monitoring & Diagnostics (NPMD) category Gartner Peer Insights’ Customer Choice distinctions “recognize vendors and products that are highly rated by their customers.” Everyone thinks they have happy customers, but how do they know they do?

Recently, Catchpoint participated in the virtual Networking Field Day. As a presenting sponsor, we spoke about the importance of network monitoring and the shift in enterprises’ strategic initiatives supporting user experience monitoring. For an hour, the discussion focused on how the digital experiences for employees and customers are converging. Enterprises are shifting to measure and monitor the tenets of reachability, availability, performance, and reliability.

Consider this scenario, your internal application and system health is in green, but your end users are reporting accessibility/availability issues. Does such a monitoring strategy serve an actual purpose? A well-built APM and infrastructure monitoring solution like Dynatrace is great for internal system health.