Business continuity is a vital aspect of modern business operations. It is the ability to maintain essential business functions during and after unexpected disruptions or disasters. Downtime, in the context of business continuity, refers to periods when critical systems are unavailable. When such a catastrophe happens, the repercussions can be significant. For one, it can be costly—every moment of system unavailability can result in financial losses.

Networks are becoming more elastic, flexible, and agile than ever before. Organizations can now run network functions on commodity hardware, making network design and implementation less rigid and expensive. By modernizing and virtualizing their networks, teams are able to increase capacity and improve security.

Network Monitoring is a process that supplies the information and data that network administrators need to determine, in real-time, the status of their network and if it's running optimally. This enables these administrators to work proactively to highlight deficiencies, enhance efficiency, and more. By utilizing network monitoring you can attain complete visibility into their network.

Network monitoring is an essential pillar of maintaining a healthy IT infrastructure. Without an effective network monitoring system in place, your organization could be losing out on better performance, greater efficiency and increased cost savings. In this guide, we'll walk you through everything you need to know about network monitoring to understand what it is and why it’s critical for your operations.

Kentik Journeys uses an AI-based, large language model to explore data from your network and troubleshoot problems in real time. Using natural language queries, Kentik Journeys is a huge step forward in leveraging AI to democratize data and make it simple for any engineer at any level to analyze network telemetry at scale.

Exciting news is on the horizon! We're stoked to share that Obkio’s new AWS - Canada West Public Monitoring Agent is now live! Just a month after AWS announced its first-ever data center in Western Canada (and second in Canada), Obkio has launched a brand new Monitoring Agent, allowing current and future customers to monitor network performance from their network locations up to the AWS infrastructure in Calgary.