Montreal, Canada
2018
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
We've been making a series of improvements across Obkio’s Network Monitoring and Observability application, and a lot of that work has been focused on one goal: simplifying not just how we show network performance data, but how easy it is to actually interpret and understand that data. Not everyone monitoring a network has the time, or the networking background, to dig through graphs line by line to figure out what's going on.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
A full outage is the easy version of this job. Something goes down, someone notices immediately, you fix it, and you move on. Everyone understands that problem, including the users complaining about it. Intermittent network connectivity issues are a different animal. Your network connection works, then it doesn't, then it does again, all on its own, usually before you've had a chance to open a single tool. By the time you sit down to look, the network is behaving perfectly.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
The Internet at one of your school sites slows to a crawl. Teachers can't load their lesson plans. A video call for a virtual class freezes. Your IT team calls the ISP. The ISP runs its own checks and tells you everything looks fine on their end. Sound familiar? This is the core problem every school board and public institution runs into eventually. Your ISP has full visibility into their own network. You don't.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Most network teams only find out their firewall is overloaded after users start complaining. A slow VPN, dropped calls, and random packet loss at 2 pm every day. The usual suspects get blamed first: the ISP, the switch, the application server. The firewall gets a pass because the dashboard says 40% CPU and everything looks fine. Here is the problem with that picture. Standard SNMP monitoring polls every 5 minutes. A CPU spike that peaks at 95% and recovers within 90 seconds never shows up.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Obkio is proud to announce an important investment from Devolutions, one of the most respected names in IT security and remote access management. This investment marks a new chapter for Obkio as we accelerate our next phase of growth. This isn't a financial transaction between strangers. It's a partnership between two companies that have spent years building tools for the same people: IT professionals, sysadmins, MSPs, and the network engineers who keep critical network infrastructure running.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Most network teams monitor uptime. A lot of them track CPU. Almost none of them consistently monitor memory utilization on routers, firewalls, and switches, and that gap causes more unexplained outages and intermittent issues than most people realize.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Your VoIP calls are choppy. File uploads are crawling. Your team is complaining that the CRM is sluggish, and remote desktop sessions keep freezing. You check your firewall, your switches look clean, and there are no alerts on your LAN. The problem isn't inside your network. It's upstream, and it's happening quietly every day during peak hours.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Here is a reality that every network admin eventually runs into: users report slow apps, dropped calls, and broken connections, and the first instinct is to blame the ISP or the cloud provider. The ticket gets escalated, the ISP pushes back, and hours later, you find out the problem was sitting inside your own building the whole time. A saturated switch port. A misconfigured VLAN. A flaky patch cable in the server room.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Most IT teams rely on Microsoft Teams Admin Center as their default monitoring tool to find and fix Microsoft Teams issues, but there's a gap between what it shows and what actually causes call quality problems. Teams Admin Center gives you Microsoft's perspective on what happened after an MS Teams call ended. It doesn't tell you what was happening on your network, on your users' devices, or in the five minutes before the complaints started coming in.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Every minute a network incident goes unresolved costs your company money. Lost productivity, missed SLAs, degraded user experience, and, in other cases, direct revenue loss. For IT teams and network admins, the pressure to resolve incidents fast isn't just operational, it's existential.
  |  By Obkio
Introducing Network Destinations, Obkio's all-new ICMP Monitoring feature. Quick question: are you paying for a second tool just to ping a few IPs? We heard that a lot. So we fixed it. Now, here's the thing about Obkio. We've always been laser-focused on agent-to-agent performance monitoring. Our secret? Distributed monitoring agents. Deploy them at your sites and over the Internet, and you get complete visibility between them, all in the app.
  |  By Obkio
Obkio recently launched the brand new Visual Traceroute Tool. In this snippet from our feature release webinar, Solution Architect, Sam, dives into Network Maps and shows you how to read and interpret the visual data to quickly identify network bottlenecks and performance issues. Learn how to leverage the map view to understand your network topology, spot problematic hops, and make faster troubleshooting decisions with visual context.
  |  By Obkio
Obkio recently launched the brand-new Visual Traceroute Tool. In this snippet from the feature release webinar, Solution Architect, Sam, shows you how to integrate Visual Traceroutes directly into your custom dashboards for even more powerful network visibility. See how easy it is to add traceroute widgets to your monitoring dashboards, giving your team instant access to hop-by-hop analysis alongside your other key graphs and network metrics.
  |  By Obkio
Obkio recently launched the brand new Visual Traceroute Tool. In this snippet from the feature release webinar, Solution Architect, Sam, demonstrates how to use Obkio's integrated Visual Traceroutes in Monitoring Sessions. Watch as he walks through the timeline feature, hop-by-hop visualization, and path change detection, all designed to help you identify exactly where and when network issues occur.
  |  By Obkio
Introducing Obkio's New Visual Traceroute: See Your Network Issues, Not Just Hops After years of evolution, we're launching the most advanced Visual Traceroute we've ever built, now fully integrated into the Obkio app. The Journey: What's New:✓ Fully integrated visual network mapping✓ Historical timeline that actually remembers✓ Correlated with Network Performance and SNMP data✓ No extra setup required✓ See the complete story of network issues, not just individual hops.
  |  By Obkio
Tired of noisy alerts and overcomplicated SNMP monitoring tools? Learn how Obkio’s SNMP Device Monitoring blends simplicity and intelligence, giving you fewer alerts, better insights and faster troubleshooting so you can resolve network router, switch and firewall issues in minutes. It always starts the same way. You’re managing your network; maybe it’s five devices, maybe it’s five hundred, and everything should be simple. But instead, you’re caught between two extremes.
  |  By Obkio
This is a snippet from our full webinar: “Troubleshooting Internet Issues: For Dummies & IT Pros” In this clip, we dive into Obkio’s Sandwich Method, a simple yet powerful approach to monitoring and identifying Internet issues. By placing Monitoring Agents: Inside your LAN At your firewall or in the DMZ And over the Internet…you can break your network into clear segments and pinpoint exactly where performance problems are happening — whether it’s local, at the network edge, or in the hands of your ISP.
  |  By Obkio
We created this video for every IT team still relying on guesswork to manage network performance. Here’s the reality: No monitoring = flying blind No alerts = no prevention No visibility = slow troubleshooting, false assumptions, and frustrated users Even the best IT pros need the right tools, just like pilots need instruments. Have you ever thought about: – Why “no complaints” isn’t the same as “no issues”– The hidden cost of poor visibility– How skill only takes you so far without data to back it up.
  |  By Obkio
MSP Life Got You Like... Juggling client networks, mystery slowdowns, and finger-pointing? Yup, we’ve been there. In this short clip, we’re breaking down the real pain points MSPs face daily—and how Obkio makes them way less painful. Monitor. Troubleshoot. Breathe easy. MSPs, this one's for you.
  |  By Obkio
Tired of Playing the Blame Game? Client says it’s the network. ISP says it’s not them. You’re stuck in the middle. With Obkio, you get the proof you need to say, “Not it!” Watch how network monitoring helps MSPs finally put the blame game to rest—for good.
  |  By Obkio
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Obkio’s sleek and user-friendly software application diagnoses the causes of intermittent VoIP, video, and applications slowdown in seconds to easily identify the source of a system failure so you can quickly apply the corrective measures before it affects your end-users.