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Traffic plummeted, connections spiked, and users kept mashing “refresh,” hoping their apps would magically resurrect with sufficient persistence. In multiple cases—especially services like X (Twitter) and ChatGPT—bandwidth cratered while connection attempts surged, a perfect signature of users desperately retrying requests that couldn’t be fulfilled. This is the kind of cross-app, cross-device behavior that traditional monitoring systems cannot detect, leaving Communication Service Providers (CSPs) without the right observability tools flying blind. Unfortunately, their customers felt it immediately.

For CSPs, every outage—whether it’s your system or someone else’s—becomes your problem. Because when apps stall and screens freeze, subscribers don’t blame a CDN, an API, or a bot-management bug. They blame you.

The recent outage was more than an isolated incident. It was a valuable reminder that today’s observability and network management systems can't cut it. CSPs need more than the logs, counters, and alarms they gather from their network elements. They need a system that tells them what their customers are experiencing based on actual user-plane traffic, classified per application per content type per device.

Network element logs won’t tell you that ChatGPT’s bytes suddenly fell 24% at 6:00 ET or that X saw a brutal 65% drop during its worst hour. Yet your customers felt every one of those dips. Isn’t it critical that you understand what’s happening on your network so you can best serve your customers?

AppLogic’s Operations Insights gives CSPs what traditional monitoring systems cannot: a real-time understanding of subscriber Quality of Experience (QoE) contextualized across the end-to-end system – from the device, to the access technology, through the core, and all the way to the application servers. It empowers CSPs to:

• Instantly see which subscribers and apps are being impacted
• Distinguish internal network issues from external outages
• Detect silent failures that never generate element alarms
• Identify frustrated subscribers at risk of leaving
• Reduce support calls and unnecessary escalations
• Proactively communicate with customers before poor QoE turns into churn
• Increase ARPU through data-driven recommendations

When the world goes sideways—like it did with Cloudflare—Operations Insights turns chaos into clarity. It will help shift your focus from reactive firefighting to proactive customer-centric decision-making -- leaving your customers delighted.

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