Obkio
Obkio is a network performance monitoring and troubleshooting service for finding intermittent network issues. Distributed agents run synthetic performance tests between network locations every 500 milliseconds, measuring latency, packet loss, jitter, throughput, and MOS score. SNMP monitoring gathers health data from routers, switches, and firewalls to relate device conditions to network performance. Application monitoring can help distinguish network problems from application or user issues and can test HTTP URLs. Visual traceroutes show network paths and latency at each hop to help locate degradation. Notifications and events can connect to Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, and HTTP webhooks. Reports can be exported as Excel, PDF, or JSON and scheduled daily, weekly, or monthly. Obkio says it uses synthetic traffic rather than capturing real user traffic. The service is listed for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows, and the web. Its Free plan is limited to two software agents. The 14-day trial includes Premium features for up to 10 agents, then switches to Free with agents above two disabled.
Who it is for
Obkio may suit small businesses, multisite organizations, MSPs, remote users, nonprofits, and colleges or universities looking to monitor network performance. Its device and application monitoring can help teams investigate where performance issues occur.
What is good
- Synthetic tests run every 500 milliseconds.
- Measures latency, packet loss, jitter, throughput, and MOS score.
- Reports can be exported and scheduled.
- Uses synthetic traffic, not real user traffic.
What to know first
- The Free plan allows a maximum of two agents.
- The 14-day trial is limited to 10 agents.
- Trial agents above two are disabled after switching to Free.
- Live chat and email support are listed for weekdays, 9am to 5pm EST.
Verdict
Obkio combines synthetic testing with device monitoring, application checks, and traceroutes to investigate network performance. The Free plan's two-agent limit and the trial's transition rules are important to account for when planning coverage.
Obkio plans and pricing
All plansCompared on network monitoring
- Free plan
- Yes
- Synthetic checks
- Yes
- Traffic monitoring
- Yes
- Topology maps
- Yes
- Alert channels
- Deployment
- hybrid
