Obkio is a network performance monitoring platform offering synthetic testing, SNMP device monitoring, APM, and VoIP quality monitoring. See features,…
Obkio is a network performance monitoring (NPM) SaaS built to give IT teams, MSPs, and remote-work organizations continuous visibility into the health of their networks, applications, and voice/UC traffic. Distributed monitoring agents are deployed across office locations, data centers, cloud environments, and remote-worker endpoints to run synthetic tests roughly every 500 milliseconds, measuring latency, jitter, and packet loss along every network path. Obkio also polls SNMP-enabled devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, and access points every 30 seconds for device-level health metrics, and offers HTTP/web-based application performance monitoring for SaaS and cloud services. Results are surfaced in real-time dashboards, including a chord-diagram view of performance across all monitored paths, along with visual traceroutes to help pinpoint the root cause of slowdowns and outages. The company positions Obkio as a fast-to-deploy alternative to legacy enterprise network monitoring tools, claiming setup in under 10 minutes, and serves customers ranging from small businesses with a handful of locations up to large enterprises and MSPs managing 25+ sites.
Key Features
Distributed synthetic monitoring — Agents test latency, jitter, and packet loss across network paths roughly every 500ms.
SNMP device monitoring — Polls routers, switches, firewalls, and access points every 30 seconds for device health.
Application performance monitoring — HTTP/web-based APM for SaaS and cloud services.
VoIP & UC quality monitoring — Measures voice and unified-communications quality using MOS scoring.
Visual traceroutes — Diagnose root causes of network performance issues with visual path analysis.
Real-time dashboards — Chord-diagram visualization of network performance across all monitored paths.
Pros & Cons
Pros
Distributed monitoring agents give end-to-end visibility across offices, cloud, data centers, and remote-worker locations
Fast synthetic testing (roughly every 500ms) for latency, jitter, and packet loss
Combines network, application (HTTP/web), device (SNMP), and VoIP/UC (MOS) monitoring in one platform
Visual traceroutes and chord-diagram dashboards simplify root-cause diagnosis
Fast deployment, claimed under 10 minutes, with no dedicated hardware required
Free perpetual plan and 14-day trial let teams evaluate before buying
Discounted pricing available for nonprofits and educational institutions
Cons
Exact dollar pricing is not published; plans are quoted as 'starting at' with final cost depending on agents, devices, and users
Lower-tier plans lack reports, webhooks, Slack/Teams integration, PagerDuty support, and user role permissions
Enterprise pricing requires contacting sales, adding friction for large deployments
Free plan is capped at just 2 agents, limiting it to very small evaluation use cases
Extra agents, devices, and users beyond plan limits incur additional usage-based charges