Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

obkio

Best 30 Remote Network Monitoring Software for IT Professionals of 2026

Nov 30, 2025 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Remote network monitoring is the process of monitoring and managing network resources and activity from a remote location using software and tools that allow network administrators to monitor network performance, troubleshoot problems, and ensure that the network is secure and operating efficiently.
Read Post
obkio

How to Monitor Unmanaged Networks & Remote Workers

Nov 26, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
Your remote developer can't access the VPN. Is it his home router? His ISP? Your network? You have no idea and no way to find out. This is the reality of modern IT. Your network doesn't end at your office perimeter. It extends into hundreds of homes, coffee shops, branch offices, and third-party locations you'll never set foot in. And when performance tanks, you're troubleshooting blind.
Read Post
obkio

What is Network Observability vs. Network Monitoring?

Nov 16, 2025 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Network observability may be seen as a newer term in the world of networking, but it has become critical for managing modern distributed networks. As networks grow more complex with cloud services, remote workers, and distributed applications, traditional network monitoring approaches no longer provide sufficient visibility into network health and performance.
Read Post
obkio

Network Monitoring vs. Network Observability: What Do You Need?

Nov 13, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
A decade ago, network monitoring was straightforward. You had a data center, some branch offices, MPLS circuits connecting everything, and a handful of applications running on-premises. Set some SNMP thresholds, configure a few alerts, and you were covered. When something broke, the problem was usually obvious: a failed switch, a saturated link, a misconfigured router. Today's networks bear zero resemblance to that world.
Read Post
obkio

VoIP Jitter Survival Guide: How to Diagnose, Monitor & Troubleshoot

Nov 11, 2025 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
VoIP jitter is the variation in packet arrival time during voice calls, measured in milliseconds. When voice packets travel across your network at inconsistent intervals; some arriving faster, others slower—you experience jitter. Acceptable jitter for VoIP is 30 milliseconds or less. Above this threshold, you'll notice choppy audio, robotic voices, delays, and call drops that disrupt business communication.
Read Post
obkio

Introducing Network Destinations: ICMP Monitoring for Any IP

Nov 11, 2025 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
For those who don't know Obkio, we're a synthetic Network Performance Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics platform. We help network teams identify, diagnose, and resolve performance issues across distributed networks, from remote offices to cloud applications. For years, we've focused on what we do best: agent-to-agent performance monitoring.
Read Post

Network Destinations: ICMP Monitoring Feature Highlight - Obkio

Nov 10, 2025 By Obkio In 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.
View Video
obkio

Microsoft Teams Monitoring to Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

Nov 8, 2025 By Alyssa Lamberti In Obkio
Microsoft Teams has become the collaboration backbone for businesses worldwide. But when call quality drops during a crucial client meeting or files won't upload before a deadline, productivity grinds to a halt. The frustration? These issues are usually preventable. The challenge with Teams is that problems can originate from multiple sources: user devices, network infrastructure, or Microsoft's platform itself.
Read Post
obkio

Common Microsoft Teams Issues & How to Troubleshoot

Nov 3, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular tools for work communication today. Whether you're chatting with your team, jumping on a video call, or sharing files, it helps keep everyone connected. But let's face it – MS Teams isn’t perfect. You’ve probably run into issues like calls dropping, bad audio, or slow Teams performance. These problems can be frustrating, especially when you’re in the middle of an important meeting or deadline.
Read Post
obkio

40 Best Cloud Network Monitoring Tools of 2026 for All Platforms and Giants like AWS, Google, Azure, IBM, and Oracle

Nov 2, 2025 By Frederic Charest In Obkio
Cloud network monitoring software is a type of software designed to monitor and manage the performance, availability, and security of networks and network devices in cloud environments. These tools use various techniques to gather information about network traffic, bandwidth utilization, application performance, and other metrics related to network health and availability.
Read Post

Copyright © 2026 OpsMatters™. All rights reserved.