Obkio 2025 Year in Review

2025 was big!

This year, we stopped talking about what Obkio could be and started showing what it is: a full network observability platform built for the networks you actually run. We released features that solve real problems. We showed up where network pros gather. And we proved that a Canadian-built tool can compete with anyone.

Here's what happened.

Behind every network issue caught, every alert fired, every problem solved… there's code. A lot of it.

• 30+ new features shipped in 2025
• 20+ platform improvements that you might not see but definitely feel
• 7 developers worked full-time on the platform you trust.
• 700,000+ lines of code power Obkio's monitoring engine

Every feature is built for IT teams who know the difference between monitoring that works and monitoring that gets in the way.

This year, we didn't just add features. We fundamentally changed how Obkio works and how you troubleshoot network problems.

For years, traceroutes were a last-resort troubleshooting step. They're hard to run in real time, rarely have the right data when you need it, and offer zero historical visibility. Obkio changed that.

The new Visual Traceroute Tool sits right inside Obkio with interactive network maps, six months of history, and one-minute granularity. No more running traceroutes when something breaks. They're already there, ready when you need them.

This is what we call internally the "aha moment" feature. The moment when you see a colour-coded path map showing exactly where performance drops, with hop-by-hop metrics revealing latency, packet loss, and jitter at every point.

The moment when troubleshooting goes from hours to seconds.

You asked for it. We built it.

Customers told us they were running two tools side by side: Obkio for site-to-site performance monitoring and PingPlotter (or similar) for ICMP monitoring of endpoints where they couldn't deploy agents.

So we took the Visual Traceroute engine you already trusted and extended it. Now you can monitor any IP address with continuous ICMP monitoring, no destination agent required.

Network Destinations feature eliminates that extra tool. One platform, one timeline, complete visibility.

Network device monitoring got a major upgrade in 2025. And it happened because you told us what you needed.

In the early days, most customers monitored one agent and one device per site. But as networks grew more complex (and as legacy monitoring vendors got acquired by private equity firms and lost their customer focus), demand changed dramatically.

The shift was clear: customers wanted to monitor all devices across their sites. The ratio of agents to monitored devices increased.

You spoke, we listened.

While you were using Obkio to catch network problems, we were rebuilding the core of our technology.

We decided to build the next generation of the Monitoring Agent. To do it right took everything we had.

• 1,491 development hours invested in Agent v2. That's 62 days of pure development time.

Our dev team said they wouldn't take on a project like this again. That's how hard it was.

But it worked. Agent v2 is more lightweight and secure than ever. Supports all the new features and everything coming next: Microsoft Teams Monitoring, Automatic Correlation, and deeper platform integration.

Better performance across the board. This is infrastructure done right.

Agent v2 is now the default for all new Obkio accounts. Existing accounts will be upgraded automatically.

Want to speed up your upgrade to try the new features? Reach out to us at support@obkio.com. You can check your current agent version on the agent page in your dashboard.

This is the feature customers requested most. And we built it properly.

When Teams freezes during a crucial client call or video lags during an all-hands meeting, productivity stops. But here's the problem: is it Teams, the network, or the user's device? Without proper monitoring, IT teams waste hours troubleshooting in the wrong direction.

Obkio's agent-based Microsoft Teams Monitoring changes that by testing from three perspectives simultaneously:

How it works:

Obkio's Agents join Teams meetings, exchange synthetic traffic, and gather performance metrics from three critical perspectives:

1. User Perspective: Monitor workstation resources, CPU usage, Wi-Fi signal strength, device performance

2. Network Perspective: Track latency, jitter, and packet loss between your network and Microsoft's infrastructure

3. Microsoft's API: Connect to Microsoft's platform to gather detailed call quality reports and server-side performance data

The feature is currently in beta, with customers already using it to catch Teams performance problems before users complain.

Full release coming early 2026. Want early access? Join the beta now.

We've been moving toward this all year, piece by piece. Now we're ready to tell you where it's going.

Obkio is repositioning from a network monitoring tool to a full network observability platform. Not someday. Not eventually. Early 2026.

Insights is the next major feature launching in 2026. It brings automatic correlation between:

• Network performance metrics
• SNMP device data
• Traceroutes
• ISP and gateway metrics
• Application performance data

The platform will surface probable root causes automatically, no more hunting across five screens trying to connect the dots.

This isn't a far-off vision. The foundation is already in place:

• Visual Traceroute provides continuous path data and route change detection
• Network Destinations extends visibility to any endpoint
• Enhanced SNMP monitors your devices with 30-second precision
• Agent v2 provides the reliable infrastructure to process and correlate massive amounts of NPM data
• Microsoft Teams Monitoring adds application-layer visibility

They're all building blocks for a platform that doesn't just show you data, but tells you what it means.

That's the difference between monitoring and observability.

We showed up where IT teams and network engineers actually work, talk, and share stories.

SaaSpasse Conf '25 in Montreal: We discussed SaaS growth strategies and how network performance makes or breaks user experience for software companies.

Réseau municipal en technologies de l'information Symposium in Trois-Rivières: Municipal IT leaders face unique challenges, managing networks across distributed locations with limited budgets.

ITSec 2025: Security and network performance go hand-in-hand. We discussed real-world scenarios where security and performance intersect.

Comitti (ex-Infotélécom): Network management strategies for the teams who keep enterprise communications running. Direct conversations about SD-WAN, MPLS transitions, and the challenges of hybrid network architectures.

Enterprise Connect 2025: The future of unified communications and collaboration. As Teams, Zoom, and voice systems move to the cloud, network monitoring becomes the foundation for reliable UC performance.

Every conversation shaped our roadmap. Every shared frustration reminded us why we built Obkio the way we do.

Looking ahead to 2026: While we'll continue visiting local events across Canada, we're also taking Obkio further.

• You'll find us at Gitex Africa (April 7-9 in Marrakech, Morocco) * And AI EVERYTHING KENYA (May 19-21 in Nairobi).

If you're attending either event, come say hi, we'd love to hear what network challenges you're facing.

We're proud to say it clearly: Obkio is Canada's one and only network monitoring solution built for Canadian enterprises.

This isn't just a job for our team, it's a mission. Canadian businesses deserve a homegrown solution that understands their unique needs. Whether you're managing municipal networks, supporting remote workers across provinces, or running distributed offices from coast to coast, Obkio was built with your reality in mind.

Today, IT teams in 12 countries use Obkio to monitor their networks. Same tool, same straightforward approach, same refusal to add bloat just because competitors do.

We're proud that a Canadian-built product competes globally. Not because we set out to conquer markets, but because we focused on solving real network problems for real IT teams and that resonates whether you're in Montreal, New York, or Berlin.

2025 laid the foundation. 2026 is about delivering on the promises we've been building toward.

Insights will launch, bringing automatic root cause analysis that connects everything. The platform will tell you not just that there's a problem, but where it started and why it's happening.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring exits beta with full production support. If your business runs on Teams, you'll finally have the visibility you need.

And we'll keep doing what we do best: listening to IT teams who actually use network monitoring tools, building features that solve real problems, and refusing to add bloat just to extend a feature list.

We're not slowing down. We're accelerating.

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2025 was shaped by your feedback. The features you asked for, the problems you told us about, the conversations at conferences, that's what drove our roadmap.

2026 will be the same. Share your experience, request features, or just tell us what you think.

Thanks for trusting us with your networks in 2025.

Here's to 2026. Even bigger. Smarter monitoring. Real breakthroughs.

— Team Obkio