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Obkio Simplifies Cloud Performance Monitoring
Monitor SaaS Apps, Workloads, and Cloud Infrastructures with End-to-End Visibility
Cloud services are crucial for businesses, with major platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud hosting most SaaS apps and workloads.
When users report slow performance, the problem could be anywhere – your network, the app, or the cloud provider. Without clear visibility, troubleshooting becomes a frustrating blame game.
Obkio’s Cloud Network Monitoring Tool gives you the power to continuously monitor performance between your users, applications, and cloud infrastructure to identify performance issues, no matter where, when, and why they happened.
Stop the ping-pong blame game with service providers. Gain visibility into every connection, collect evidence for cloud provider issues, and resolve internal or external problems faster.
How Obkio’s Cloud Network Monitoring Tool Works
Comprehensive Monitoring for Every Cloud Environment using synthetic Network Performance Monitoring and Application Performance Monitoring.
Obkio ensures continuous cloud network monitoring by leveraging synthetic monitoring and Monitoring Agents. By using pre-deployed Public Monitoring Agents in major cloud environments, Obkio provides constant performance tracking between your local infrastructure and cloud services.
Additionally, agents deployed locally in key network locations perform tests to assess the performance between your local network and cloud applications. With real-time data on latency, packet loss, and bandwidth, Obkio alerts you to anomalies, allowing for quick issue resolution and optimized cloud network performance.
- Network Performance Monitoring (NPM): Continuously measures metrics like latency, jitter, packet loss, and throughput, tracking the entire path from your local network to the cloud.
- Application Performance Monitoring (APM) Monitors cloud-hosted applications for response times, availability, and errors to assess service health.
By leveraging synthetic traffic and monitoring agents, Obkio provides end-to-end visibility into your network and application stack. Detect bottlenecks, optimize connections, and ensure seamless cloud service performance for users and workloads.
What Cloud Applications You Can Monitor With Obkio’s Cloud Network Monitoring Tool
Obkio's Cloud Network Monitoring Tool Helps You Spot Issues Before They Affect Your Cloud Apps
VoIP and UC Applications
Monitor performance for platforms like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and Google Meet, ensuring low latency, minimal jitter, and no packet loss.
SaaS Applications
Monitor the performance of Salesforce, Office 365, Google Workspace, and other SaaS applications to ensure availability and optimal performance.
Cloud-Based ERP Systems
Monitor the performance of cloud-based ERP systems like SAP, NetSuite, and Oracle Cloud to ensure smooth operations for business processes.
Web Applications and APIs
Monitor the availability and performance of web applications and APIs hosted on platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
No Matter Your Network Issue
We've Got the Solution For You
Obkio's solution is designed to be the easiest Cloud Network Monitoring Tool on the market, making it the ideal choice for businesses of all sizes, from IT professionals working from home to managing the complexities of large-scale corporate networks.
- 14-Day Proof Of Concept
- Single and home offices
- SMEs with less than 3 locations
- Mid to large multisite networks
- MSPs & large businesses
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Colleges and Universities
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Deploy Obkio’s Cloud Network Monitoring Tool In Minutes
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Begin your monitoring journey with Obkio’s Free Trial and experience all premium features, including real-time insights into cloud network performance. The trial is designed to give you full access to Obkio's capabilities, including its easy-to-use onboarding wizard that helps you get up and running in no time.
Whether you're an IT expert or just starting with network monitoring, the deployment process is fast and straightforward, ensuring a seamless experience for all expertise levels.
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Deploy Monitoring Agents In Your Local Network & Cloud Infrastructure
To get started with Obkio, deploy Local Agents across your network – whether at your head office, data center, or remote workstations. These agents collect key data on your internal network's performance, measuring metrics like packet loss, latency and jitter.
Then, leverage Obkio’s Public Monitoring Agents, which are pre-deployed in major cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. These agents focus on monitoring performance between your infrastructure and the cloud platform, helping you pinpoint any issues in connectivity or bottlenecks.
With both local and public agents, Obkio isolates performance metrics to determine if issues are within your network or the cloud provider’s infrastructure.
Monitor Cloud Apps
With Agents Deployed by Major Service Providers
Collect Cloud Performance Data & Establish A Baseline
Gather real-time and historical data about Cloud App performance using NPM & APM.
Obkio keeps track of both your network and application performance, so you're always aware of any changes or issues. It helps you spot problems that could affect your network and end-users, while also setting a baseline for how your network should perform. This way, you can notice the first signs of performance problems early and fix them before they become major issues.
Using a combination of Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM), Obkio gathers detailed data across all layers.
- NPM for End-to-End Network Monitoring: Track your cloud provider’s entire network infrastructure, including key metrics like latency, jitter, packet loss, and throughput.
- APM for Application Performance: Measure response times, availability, and errors for cloud-hosted applications, ensuring smooth performance from the user’s network to the cloud.
Example Cloud Performance Monitoring Setup
Imagine your service is hosted on Azure, and you also have a Virtual Firewall and Public Agent in place. All Obkio agents can seamlessly communicate with each other, providing you with a comprehensive benchmark.
With this setup, you can easily pinpoint where performance issues may be occurring – whether it's within your local network, across the Internet, cloud provider infrastructure or within the application itself.
Cloud-Based Network Monitoring From 3 Perspectives
When troubleshooting performance issues in cloud environments, it's important to monitor your network from three key perspectives.
In cloud environments with so many different connections, performance problems can occur anywhere – whether within your local network, over the Internet, or within the cloud provider's infrastructure. Monitoring all these areas helps you pinpoint exactly where the issue lies and take action to resolve it quickly.
Obkio’s cloud monitoring tool provides deep insights by focusing on the following layers:
- 1. Local Network (LAN) Issues: Monitor performance within your internal network, including offices, remote workstations, and data centers. Issues such as congestion, device misconfigurations, or network overloads within your LAN can directly affect user experience.
- 2. Internet Issues: Track the performance of your Internet connection between your local network and the cloud. Latency or packet loss on the internet could cause interruptions in service and slowdowns in application response times.
- 3. Cloud Provider Network Issues: Monitor connectivity between your network and cloud providers like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. Any network degradation or outages within the cloud provider’s infrastructure could impact the performance of your hosted applications.
By analyzing these three layers – local network, Internet, and cloud provider network – Obkio provides a comprehensive view that helps isolate where issues occur, so you can resolve them more efficiently.
Do You Have a Network Issue?
Analyze Obkio to identify if you have a network or application issue affecting your Cloud infrastructure.
After collecting real-time data from both Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM), it’s time to analyze the performance metrics and identify the root cause of any issues.
Your Network Shows Poor Performance
If poor performance metrics like high latency or packet loss are detected, the problem could be within your internal network (LAN). This could happen in your office, data center, or remote workstations. Obkio's data will help you identify if it's related to congestion or other issues within your own network infrastructure.
No Network Issue, But Poor Cloud Performance
If network performance looks healthy (no significant latency, jitter, or packet loss), but users still experience poor performance, the issue could be application-related. Check APM: Obkio’s APM can help identify issues like slow response times, downtime, or errors in cloud-hosted applications.
First: What is the Network Issue Affecting?
Use Obkio Vision: Visual Traceroues to trace the path and review metrics to identify where the performance problem is occurring—whether within your local network, ISP, or cloud provider's network.
Use Traceroute to trace the network path to locate where latency or packet loss occurs (LAN, Internet, or cloud).
Analyze Network Metrics (latency, packet loss, jitter) to identify if the issue is local, ISP-related, or cloud-related.
Second: What Kind of Network Issue Is It?
Once you’ve isolated the issue, investigate further to determine whether it’s due to local network congestion, ISP connectivity problems, or issues with the cloud provider's infrastructure.
LAN Issues: Check for congestion or faulty devices within your internal network.
ISP Issues: Investigate routing or connectivity problems between your network and the cloud.
Cloud Network Issues: Check for provider-related outages or performance issues.
Where Did the Performance Issue Happen?
See where performance issues are happening in or out of your network at a glance so you know where to troubleshoot.
Use Obkio’s Cloud Network Monitoring dashboards to visualize all your monitoring locations in one view and quickly determine where the issue is occurring—whether in your local network (LAN), over the Internet, or within the cloud provider’s network. This helps you identify if the problem lies within your internal infrastructure, external network, or cloud environment.
4.1. LAN, Internet or Cloud Provider Network
With Obkio’s centralized dashboards, you can pinpoint where problems are occurring by analyzing performance data from different perspectives:
Local Network (LAN) If the issue is within your local network, you'll see high latency, packet loss, or jitter on internal connections. Obkio’s traceroute and NPM metrics will help identify delays in your LAN.
- Metrics to Watch: Analyze latency, packet loss, and bandwidth usage from local monitoring agents.
- Pinpoint Issues: Identify if the problem is within your internal network, such as workstations, office LANs, or data centers.
- Time Analysis: Correlate when the issue occurred with user impact to understand the scope.
In Your ISP Network or Over the Internet: When the issue is with your ISP, you’ll experience slow performance between your network and the cloud. Traceroute will show degradation beyond your LAN, while NPM metrics will highlight increased latency or packet loss over the Internet.
- Internet Performance: Monitor the connection between your local network and the cloud.
- Identify Bottlenecks: Detect disruptions like high latency or packet loss across the Internet path.
Cloud Provider Network: If the issue is with the cloud provider, traceroute and cloud metrics will reveal delays within their network. Performance problems that persist after reaching the cloud point to issues at the provider's end, such as network congestion or outages.
- Cloud-Specific Metrics: View data from AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud agents to check for performance drops within the cloud provider’s infrastructure.
- Application Impact: Investigate issues like server errors or slow application response times affecting user experience.
By leveraging Obkio's intuitive dashboards, you gain real-time visibility across all perspectives, helping you isolate whether the issue resides in the LAN, Internet, or cloud provider network. This layered approach simplifies troubleshooting and speeds up resolution.
Uncover the Cause of Cloud Network Issues
Obkio’s Cloud Monitoring Tool unveils the key causes of cloud network performance issues.
Obkio will also help you uncover the root causes of performance issues. Of course, the root cause with depend on the source of the issue (network, Internet, application, cloud provider). But, when it comes to cloud services, there are some of the most common:
Network Congestion
Overloaded network connections between your on-premises infrastructure and the cloud can cause high latency, packet loss, or slow speeds. This can occur due to excessive traffic, insufficient bandwidth, or inefficient routing paths.
Misconfigured Cloud Network Settings
Incorrect configurations of virtual networks, subnets, or security groups in the cloud can block or slow down traffic. Common issues include incorrect routing rules, misconfigured firewalls, or inadequate load balancing.
Resource Throttling or Limits Exceeded
If cloud resources such as compute power, storage, or network bandwidth exceed their allocated limits, performance can degrade due to throttling. This often happens during traffic spikes or when the cloud environment is not properly scaled to handle the demand.
Service Degradation or Outages in Cloud Provider Infrastructure
Cloud service providers like Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud occasionally experience outages or degraded service in their data centers, impacting performance for users. These issues could affect specific regions or services like storage, databases, or networking.
Intermittent Connectivity Between On-Premises and Cloud
Intermittent Internet or VPN connectivity between on-premises locations (like branch offices or remote users) and the cloud provider’s network can lead to unstable performance. Issues such as packet loss or high latency can result from weak or fluctuating connections.
Troubleshoot Cloud Network Performance Based on the Source of the Issue
Use the information you've collected from Obkio's app to troubleshoot performance issues with your internal IT team, ISP or Cloud Service Provider.
After identifying whether the problem is in your Local Network, with the Internet Service Provider (ISP), or the Cloud Provider, Obkio guides you through targeted troubleshooting steps:
1. Local Network Issues: High latency, packet loss, or slow connectivity within your LAN.
- Monitor Device Performance: Analyze bandwidth usage and device traffic for issues like congestion or faulty equipment.
- Inspect Configurations: Check routers, switches, and access points for errors or misconfigurations.
- Review Localized Applications: Investigate application settings or server health for performance bottlenecks.
2. Internet (ISP) Issues: Connectivity issues between your network and the cloud platform, affecting multiple locations.
- Check ISP Status: Verify outages or maintenance affecting your connection.
- Perform Traceroute Analysis: Use Obkio Vision to trace and identify bottlenecks in the ISP’s path to the cloud.
- Test Across Locations: Confirm if the issue is localized or widespread.
- Provide Evidence: Share Obkio’s data with your ISP to expedite troubleshooting.
3. Cloud Provider Network Issues: Application slowness, poor response times, or outages within the cloud infrastructure.
- Check Service Status: Confirm any known outages on the provider’s status page.
- Review Resource Usage: Ensure your usage hasn’t exceeded cloud resource limits, causing throttling.
- Investigate Configuration Issues: Check for problems with load balancers, servers, or networking setups.
- Test Across Regions: Compare performance across cloud regions to identify localized issues.
- Contact Support: Use Obkio’s insights to escalate the problem to the cloud provider for resolution.
Obkio ensures you resolve network performance issues efficiently, no matter their source.
Continuous Cloud Network Monitoring with Obkio for Proactive Troubleshooting
Stay proactive with Obkio to identify performance issues before they affect your end-users and your most important applications.
Obkio’s continuous monitoring combines both Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) and Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for a complete, real-time picture of your network health. Leverage synthetic monitoring to simulate user traffic and detect performance issues before they affect end users.
Obkio’s Monitoring Agents, strategically deployed on your local, remote, and cloud networks, continuously track critical performance metrics such as latency, packet loss, and bandwidth utilization. Proactive alerts and notifications allow you to identify and resolve issues quickly, ensuring seamless performance across all environments.
Stay ahead of potential disruptions with 24/7 visibility into your cloud network and applications.
Conquering Network Issues with
Expert Insights and Effective Strategies
Welcome to our blog, where we address the common challenge of identifying network issues and provide you with effective solutions. At times, network problems can be elusive, causing disruptions, performance bottlenecks, and frustration. But fret not, because we are here to help. Our team of experts has extensive experience in tackling network issues head-on, and we are excited to share our knowledge and insights with you.
Frequently Asked Questions
Obkio offers a decentralized Cloud Network Monitoring Solution to monitor network performance up to your cloud infrastructure for applications like ERP, CRM, Office 365, G Suite and more!
To monitor Cloud network performance, use Obkio's Public Monitoring Agent, which are Monitoring Agents maintained by Obkio but hosted by major Cloud providers like Google Cloud, AWS, and Microsoft Azure.
Monitor network performance of Cloud apps like Google Cloud, Microsft Azure, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), as well as ERPs, CRMs, Office 365, G Suite and more!
As more and more businesses are making the move to the cloud, it’s important to monitor your cloud infrastructure’s performance to ensure everything is working as it should.
A distributed Cloud Network Monitoring solution monitors network performance from a user’s perspective and from every possible angle - so you can ensure all your cloud-based applications are working properly alongside your network.
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