Case Study: Outbrain achieves global visibility and world-class uptime with Catchpoint Synthetic Monitoring

Outbrain Uses Catchpoint Synthetic Monitoring to Validate and Ensure Its World-class Uptime and Performance

Outbrain, the platform that powers discovery feeds on major publisher sites like CNN and MSN, needed better visibility into how its asynchronous widget and increasingly complex feed-like experiences perform outside its own data centers. With growing features (carousels, video) and variable publisher rules, the company needed to validate APIs, pinpoint root causes across DNS/CDN/Kubernetes/application layers, and prove reliable uptime to partners.

Outbrain migrated to Catchpoint synthetic monitoring to supplement Pingdom, creating targeted tests and integrating alerts with Slack and PagerDuty. The solution gave on-call teams fast root-cause visibility, historical uptime data for partner assurance, and automated escalation workflows—helping Outbrain maintain world-class availability, speed incident resolution, and strengthen partner trust.

Outbrain

Guy Kobrinsky

VP Cloud Platform