Catchpoint's presentation at Cloud Field Day showcased their Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform through a live demo and user scenario walkthrough. The goal was to demonstrate how organizations can proactively address digital disruptions and outages impacting both customers and employees. The core of the demo centered on a visual representation called the "Internet Stack Map," which provides a detailed, real-time view of the entire internet stack for a given application—in this case, a movie ticket booking app—allowing users to see the performance of each layer, from DNS resolution and CDNs to backend services and databases. This visualization instantly highlights performance bottlenecks and potential points of failure.

The presentation explained how the Stack Map is constructed using a combination of user-defined synthetic monitors and Catchpoint's auto-discovery feature. Users can define tests at various layers of the network stack (BGP, ping, trace route, etc.) and Catchpoint intelligently identifies and maps third-party services involved in the application's operation. The platform also integrates with APM tools like Dynatrace and Datadog, allowing seamless transitions between the high-level overview provided by Catchpoint and the deeper code-level insights offered by APMs, providing a comprehensive view of application performance. This integration facilitates a collaborative approach to troubleshooting, enabling teams to quickly identify and resolve issues.

Finally, Catchpoint highlighted its Internet Sonar map, a proactive monitoring tool that tracks the performance of key internet services and infrastructure, providing advance warning of potential outages affecting an organization’s application. By monitoring a broad range of services and identifying correlated events, Catchpoint helps organizations anticipate and mitigate the impact of external disruptions. The company emphasized its commitment to customer success, offering dedicated support and value engineering services to ensure quick adoption and ongoing value from their platform, including proactive alerts and detailed incident reporting.

Presented by Brandon DeLap, Senior Solution Engineer, Catchpoint and Mehdi Daoudi, CEO & Founder, Catchpoint. Recorded live in Santa Clara, California on February 19, 2025 as part of Cloud Field Day 22. Watch the entire presentation at https://techfieldday.com/appearance/selector-ai-presents-at-cloud-field-day-22/, https://techfieldday.com/event/cfd22/ or visit https://www.catchpoint.com/guided-product-tourfor more information.