What are Traceroutes and how exactly do they help you troubleshoot network problems? Traceroute is the most popular tool that network engineers use to troubleshoot network problems. It was invented in 1987 and is still highly relevant today. As its name suggests, the main purpose of a traceroute is to trace the IP route from a source to a destination inside an IP network. It shows users the round-trip latency from the source to each of the routers. Traceroute commands are available on almost any host.

Intermittent network problems frustrate users, affect business productivity, and are a nightmare for all IT administrators because they are the most difficult to solve. Network problems like choppy VoIP, jerky video calls, and network and application slowness issues can affect your business in drastic ways - which is why it's important to know how to identify network issues so you can solve them quickly.

From speaking with IT professionals, clients, and employees from other network-reliant departments, we've put together a list of the 10 most asked network performance questions to give you a basic understanding of network performance.

Continuous network performance monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing at its highest level. The best to way to measure network performance is by measuring certain performance metrics. In this short video, learn about the top 5 network performance metrics that you should be monitoring. Continuous network performance monitoring can help you ensure that your network is always performing as its highest level.

You may have heard IT professionals go on about the importance of monitoring your network performance to help you pinpoint the cause of problems like dropped calls, slow downs, or connection losses within your infrastructure. The easiest way to get the point across is to understand the specific situations in which the solution will be used. Watch this 2-minute video to learn about the top 3 use cases for network performance monitoring, specifically for service providers (MSPs).

In this short video, Obkio CEO, Jean-Francois Levesque, teaches you how to quickly set up and monitor a device using Obkio's Network Device Monitoring Solution. Obkio's Device Monitoring feature is a fast and easy solution to help you get detailed information about the health of devices, such as as firewalls, routers, switches wifi access points, and other devices crucial for IT teams. Used with the end-to-end Network Performance Monitoring feature, it helps IT teams pinpoint issues quickly and efficiently.

Fault Monitoring vs. Network Monitoring: What are the differences and when do you need either solution? Where do we start when users or employees complain about poor network performance? And what tools are available to help? Check out our video to learn about the differences between Fault Monitoring and Networking Monitoring and what may be the right solution for your needs, in under 2 minutes. Every IT professional knows that users typically complain about two things: Something doesn’t work. Something is slow slow.

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Modern Networks are complex systems, but nowadays often the backbone of businesses. When your business' network doesn't perform to the best of its capabilities, your business may suffer as a result. How do you avoid that? Well, you continuously monitor your network network performance to ensure your business is running at its full capacity. Watch our quick video to find out 7 reasons why you should be monitoring your network performance, from our IT pros here at Obkio!

Learn in 10 minutes how to install Obkio Network Performance Monitoring Agents. This demo will setup one software agent and 3 public agents (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).