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Introducing ping and TCP port monitoring (and lots of other improvements)

A couple months ago, we sent out a survey to all our users asking what they like about Oh Dear, how they use it, and how we could improve our service. One of the things that was asked a lot was ping and TCP port monitoring. The past few months we worked hard to add this kind of monitoring to our service. And while building it, we touched upon other parts of our service and improved lots of little things. And I'm proud to share that we now have shipped it all! Let's go through it!

The Vulnerability Sitting in Front of Government Websites

In early August, in a sublet apartment on the eighth floor of a high-rise in central Tel Aviv, Aviv Yahav, a vulnerability researcher, opened a debugger and watched a memory address filled with zeros where it should have held a cryptographic secret. The affected system was a Fortinet FortiWeb appliance, a web application firewall deployed by thousands of organizations across the public and private sectors. The missing bytes were the secret used to derive session keys for authenticated user sessions.

5 Signs Your Network Operations Need an Upgrade

Network operations form the foundation of how businesses function in today's connected world. Every service, tool, and application depends on the network working smoothly. When network operations fall behind, the problems show up quickly. Employees face disruptions, customers lose patience, and the business as a whole struggles to keep up with modern demands. The challenge is that many teams keep patching small issues without realizing the system itself has outgrown its usefulness.

ManageEngine recognized as a Customers' Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Network Management Tools

We are thrilled to share that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer for Network Management Tools. We are even more excited to be the only vendor positioned in the Customers' Choice quadrant for this category! This recognition is especially meaningful because it's completely based on reviews and feedback from our customers.

Real User Experiences: How Auvik Network Management Transforms Remote Support

When distributed teams need network support, traditional approaches often fall short. The difference between a quick remote fix and hours of on-site troubleshooting can make or break productivity for organizations with dispersed infrastructure. Based on feedback from real users on PeerSpot, an enterprise technology buying intelligence platform, Auvik Network Management is changing how IT teams deliver remote support by eliminating common barriers and reducing resolution times.

How Auvik Network Management Optimizes Network Performance: Real User Insights

Network performance challenges can cripple business operations, leaving IT teams scrambling to identify bottlenecks while users experience frustrating slowdowns. Without proper visibility into bandwidth utilization, latency issues, packet loss, and network availability, organizations risk reactive troubleshooting that costs time and productivity.

Identify slowdowns across your entire network with Datadog Network Path

As modern infrastructure becomes increasingly distributed across on-premises data centers, multi-cloud environments, ISPs, and remote offices, understanding how traffic flows across your network is critical to delivering reliable performance and great user experiences. But pinpointing the source of network slowdowns remains one of the most persistent challenges for operations, network, and IT teams.