Montreal, Canada
2018
  |  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 Andrii Kernitskyi
Network outages are easy. Something goes down, alarms fire, you fix it, life moves on. Everyone understands a full outage. It's clean, binary, and at least somewhat predictable. Network instability is the opposite of all that. Nothing fully breaks. Nothing fully works. The ping responds. The connection shows active. And yet users are complaining about choppy calls, sluggish apps, and sessions dropping for no apparent reason. You run a speed test, and it's fine.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
When users complain that an app or website is slow, the first question is always the same: Is it the network or the application? HTTP monitoring gives you the answer. Network metrics like latency and packet loss tell you what's happening on the wire. But they don't tell you whether users are actually feeling the impact. HTTP monitoring closes that gap.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Your phone rings. A user is complaining that “the network was slow" or "had issues around 3pm." You run a speed test. Green across the board. No active alerts. Everything looks fine. So what do you tell them? If you don't have a continuous, time-stamped record of what your network was doing at 3pm, you can't tell them anything, not with confidence. You're stuck choosing between "I didn't see anything" and "I'll keep an eye on it," neither of which fixes the problem or satisfies the user.
  |  By Alyssa Lamberti
Poor voice call quality isn't just annoying, it's a productivity killer. Dropped calls mid-negotiation, garbled audio on client meetings, and one-sided conversations where half the words don't make it through: these aren't random technical glitches. They're symptoms of network performance problems that haven't been identified, measured, or fixed. And when your business runs on VoIP, Microsoft Teams, or any cloud-based communication platform, unmeasured voice quality is a liability.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Your apps are slow. Users are complaining. You're staring at a dashboard trying to figure out what broke and when. Sound familiar? This is the reality of reactive network monitoring. By the time someone opens a ticket, the issue has already been affecting performance for minutes, sometimes hours. A network health check flips that script. Instead of chasing problems after the fact, you're catching them before users ever notice.
  |  By Alyssa Lamberti
In 2016, before Obkio existed, we ran a market audit. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and asked them one simple question: Why aren't you using a Network Performance Monitoring solution? The answer was unanimous: the tools were too complex, and nobody had the internal resources to run them full-time. If that was true for enterprises with dedicated networking staff, it was even more true for smaller businesses with generalist IT teams.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
It's 2 AM. The Network Is Down. Where Do You Start? You get the call. Users can't connect. VoIP is choppy. Something is broken somewhere between your office and the cloud. You open your monitoring dashboard and it says something is wrong, but not where. Not why. Not since when? So you do what IT teams have done for decades. You open a terminal, run a traceroute, SSH into the router, pull up SNMP, check the firewall logs.
  |  By Alyssa Lamberti
In 2016, Obkio was just an idea, but it was an idea born from a real problem. Before writing a single line of code, we conducted a market audit to understand why Network Performance Monitoring solutions weren't more mature. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and the answer was unanimous: the NPM tools on the market were too complex, and most businesses simply didn't have the internal resources to dedicate full-time to managing them.
  |  By Andrii Kernitskyi
Most companies rewired how their people work, not once but twice. First for remote, then for RTO (Return to Office). Their network monitoring never caught up. So, what happened? IT teams are managing a network that spans headquarters, branch offices, home setups, and cloud apps with tools that still assume everyone's connecting back to one place. When something breaks (and it will), nobody can pinpoint where. IT takes the blame. Users lose productivity. Leadership loses patience.
  |  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
Discover Obkio’s Free Trial in Just 1 Minute! Are you curious about how Obkio works? This quick video gives you a fast, clear look at how our Network Performance Monitoring tool helps you identify, troubleshoot, and resolve network issues before they impact your users.
  |  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
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Obkio is a simple network performance monitoring solution that allows users to continuously monitor the health of their network and core business applications to improve the end-user experience.

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.