The landscape of applications and their delivery has changed dramatically. Applications are no longer standalone entities, but complex collections of services, APIs, and distributed applications across different cloud environments.
While this ecosystem relies heavily on core internet services such as DNS and BGP, networks are evolving to embrace a variety of complex architectures such as IPv4/6, WAN, SD-WAN, SASE, EDGE, and 5G technologies. I’ve been doing it. Additionally, with users spread across the globe, understanding regional performance differences is critical to ensuring a great customer and employee experience.
Given this backdrop, it’s no wonder that traditional application performance monitoring (APM) and network performance monitoring (NPM) tools are struggling to keep up. The original form of APM was invented over 30 years ago in a simpler time. At the time, applications were primarily monolithic, three-tier structures, most of the infrastructure was housed on-premises, and the concept of virtualization, the flexible metrics that come with today’s cloud and Kubernetes environments, did not exist. did.
As the cloud becomes the new data center and SaaS becomes the new application stack, ensuring application availability and reachability requires monitoring, managing, and troubleshooting the new enterprise network: the Internet.
Introduction to Internet Performance Monitoring
Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) is a new generation solution that provides deep visibility into all aspects of the Internet that impact your business. All layers of the new Internet stack, from the application layer to the network foundation, including core elements such as BGP, DNS, CDN, and SASE, all working together to deliver seamless digital services from organizations to end users. monitor components. , MQTT.
According to a Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Catchpoint, “Investing in IPM tools delivers great ROI” For organizations that require a resilient internet to operate, this is honestly true for almost any organization.
Difference between IPM and APM
APM tools focus on application code and identify issues such as database latency, inefficient code, and resource bottlenecks. IPM, on the other hand, focuses on experience and aims to improve the customer and employee experience by monitoring how applications and APIs run on the internet. APM and IPM both utilize synthesis, real user monitoring (RUM), and performance profiling, but IPM uses these tools differently.
APM primarily uses synthetic agents in the cloud for cross-cloud monitoring. While this is effective for optimizing the application, it is insufficient for evaluating the actual user experience. IPM takes a different strategy and considers how customers and employees interact with the system not from the cloud, but from a variety of environments: a laptop in the suburbs, a mobile device while traveling, a tablet in a coffee shop. is focused on.
Why is it a catch point?
Catchpoint’s IPM platform offers five comprehensive solutions designed to provide complete operational insight into every aspect of your business, including your customers, employees, network, applications, and website experience. Catchpoint is independent from hyperscalers, SaaS platforms, and other cloud-based resources, providing unparalleled outside-in visibility into the entire internet stack, providing a holistic view of performance across the digital ecosystem. We stand out by ensuring that.
Learn more about how to use IPM to ensure the resiliency of your Internet stack.
