Catchpoint announced Heartbeat Monitoring, high-frequency, real-time observability engineered to detect “micro-incidents”, transient disruptions that quietly degrade digital experiences but go undetected by conventional monitoring.
Designed for today’s microservices, serverless, and API-first architectures, Heartbeat Monitoring captures sub-minute failures across both first- and third-party dependencies, giving Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and DevOps teams the precision telemetry they need to maintain digital reliability at scale. With checks as frequent as every five seconds, teams can instantly surface reliability gaps, tighten feedback loops, and uphold SLOs with measurable confidence.
Heartbeat Monitoring provides high-frequency, audit-ready observability across every phase of the software delivery lifecycle, from pre-production testing to global production environments. The result is faster incident resolution, reduced mean time to detect (MTTD), and strengthened operational resilience.
Key capabilities and differentiators
- Sub-minute outage detection: Identify disruptions as short as five seconds across web, API, and third-party integrations.
- Detailed test output– Test produce critical test metrics such as DNS resolution time, TCP connectivity, TLS certificate validity, and HTTP status codes.
- Multi-cloud testing: Heartbeat test can be run from cloud agents in AWS, Azure, and GCP or enterprise agents at private locations at launch, providing visibility across hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-prem environments.
- Audit-ready SLO data: Generate high-resolution service-level indicators (SLIs) for operational, business, and compliance assurance.
- Automation-ready integration: Deploy via Terraform, CLI, or API for “monitoring as code” consistency within CI/CD workflows.
- Architected for modern environments: Comprehensive support for multi-cloud, hybrid, and edge architectures, ensuring no blind spots in distributed systems.
- Unified digital performance view: Natively integrates with Catchpoint’s synthetic monitoring, BGP, tracing, and Internet Stack Map to correlate root causes across every layer of the Internet Stack.
“Reliability engineering has evolved beyond uptime. It’s about visibility, precision, and trust. Heartbeat Monitoring empowers organizations to move from firefighting to foresight, ensuring their systems deliver consistent experiences under any condition,” said Matt Izzo, Chief Product Officer, Catchpoint.
“Heartbeat shrinks the gap between incident and insight, turning reliability into a first-class product metric instead of a reactive firefight,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “In a world where every second counts, we empower teams to deliver experiences their users can always trust.”
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