Obkio

Obkio does continuous synthetic network monitoring end to end, which is a different approach from device polling and worth understanding before comparing it with alternatives. Rather than asking routers how they are, Obkio deploys monitoring agents that continuously send traffic between locations and measure what actually happens to it. That detects the problems users experience but devices do not report: a link that is technically up while dropping packets, or a path that degrades only under load.

The agent placement is the point. Monitoring agents run at all network locations, so performance is measured between the places that matter rather than from a single vantage point. Network device monitoring via SNMP polling is available alongside, so the device view is not lost, and Network Destinations provides ICMP monitoring for any IP address.

Visual traceroutes address the hardest question in network troubleshooting: where along a path the problem occurs. Seeing the route drawn with the degrading hop identified converts an argument with a provider into evidence, which is what determines whether a third party acts on a complaint.

The named solutions map to what actually breaks in modern networks: SD-WAN monitoring, internet performance monitoring, VoIP monitoring, MPLS monitoring and Microsoft Teams monitoring. VoIP and Teams deserve mention because both fail on jitter and packet loss rather than bandwidth, and users report them as the application being broken rather than the network. Metrics tracked include packet loss, latency, speed and mean opinion score. Application performance monitoring and an on-demand or scheduled speed test tool complete it. Pricing is published on the vendor's site with monthly and annual options.