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Best 30 Remote Network Monitoring Software for IT Professionals of 2026

Remote network monitoring is the process of monitoring and managing network resources and activity from a remote location using software and tools that allow network administrators to monitor network performance, troubleshoot problems, and ensure that the network is secure and operating efficiently.

How Roblox uses HAProxy Enterprise to power gaming for 100 million daily users

One of the most anticipated presentations at HAProxyConf 2025 came from gaming and user-generated content (UGC) innovators Roblox. Software Engineer Chris Jones and Senior Site Reliability Engineer Ben Meidel gave an enthusiastic and enjoyable presentation, detailing their journey from legacy hardware to a sophisticated, automated, and secure application delivery platform, with seamless, API-powered dynamic configuration and upgrades, supported by the HAProxy Enterprise Dynamic Update Module.

The Silent Sabotage of Configuration Drift

Your network is not a static entity. It is a living system that has been running for years, absorbing countless changes. While your infrastructure may appear healthy on the surface, a slow and silent saboteur is often at work, methodically undermining your infrastructure from within. This is not the work of a malicious actor. It’s the inevitable result of a process you may not even be tracking: configuration drift.

How Log Management and NDR Work Together to Speed Up Incident Response

Log management and Network Detection and Response (NDR) solutions are closely related but offer different layers of visibility. Rather than overlapping, they complement each other, together providing a connected view of what’s happening in your environment. How exactly? Let’s take a closer look.

How to Monitor Unmanaged Networks & Remote Workers

Your remote developer can't access the VPN. Is it his home router? His ISP? Your network? You have no idea and no way to find out. This is the reality of modern IT. Your network doesn't end at your office perimeter. It extends into hundreds of homes, coffee shops, branch offices, and third-party locations you'll never set foot in. And when performance tanks, you're troubleshooting blind.

Announcing HAProxy 3.3

HAProxy 3.3 is here, and this release brings downloadable packages compiled by HAProxy Technologies, numerous TLS enhancements including expanded ACME support, better observability with persistent stats over reloads, and many improvements to performance and flexibility such as support for QUIC on the backend. These powerful capabilities help HAProxy remain the G2 category leader in API Management, Container Networking, DDoS Protection, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Load Balancing.

How to Turbocharge Your Kubernetes Networking With eBPF

When your Kubernetes cluster handles thousands of workloads, every millisecond counts. And that pressure is no longer the exception; it is the norm. According to a recent CNCF survey, 93% of organizations are using, piloting, or evaluating Kubernetes, revealing just how pervasive it has become. Kubernetes has grown from a promising orchestration tool into the backbone of modern infrastructure. As adoption climbs, so does pressure to keep performance high, networking efficient, and security airtight.
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The Critical Role of CPU Monitoring for Modern Network Admins

For network administrators, maintaining seamless and uninterrupted system performance is an ongoing, vital responsibility. In environments ranging from hundreds of endpoints to complex hybrid clouds, CPU monitoring stands out as a critical tool. Without it, proactively identifying and resolving performance slowdowns, service lags, or outages is impossible, leaving you to reactively guess at solutions.

Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge: Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video

In this edition of Anatomy of an OTT Traffic Surge, we look at Thursday Night Football on Amazon Prime Video. Based on traffic stats, TNF is the most watched program on the streaming service. Using Kentik’s OTT capabilities, we’ll see how this program gets delivered and how that has changed over 11 weeks of the NFL season.

How LEO satellite technology is transforming enterprise connectivity

How LEO satellite technology is transforming enterprise connectivity It’s not new to say that reliable, high-speed connectivity is critical for businesses. Yet even as global networks expand, many enterprises still face connectivity challenges, whether operating in remote industrial zones, across oceans or in developing regions with limited terrestrial infrastructure.

What Is Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Monitoring?

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has transformed business communication by enabling voice calls over the Internet rather than traditional phone lines. While VoIP provides flexibility and cost savings, call quality can be affected by network issues such as latency, jitter, and packet loss. VoIP monitoring is the process of tracking and analyzing the performance of your VoIP system to ensure smooth, clear, and reliable voice communication.

How to Monitor Java Applications on Windows with SolarWinds Observability | APM Setup Guide

This video provides a step-by-step walkthrough for configuring monitoring for Java applications running on Windows using SolarWinds Observability. The demonstration covers the complete process—from adding a new service to instrumenting the application with the Java APM library and verifying connectivity. Topics covered in this video include: This guide is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators who need to instrument Java applications on Windows for performance monitoring, distributed tracing, and full-stack observability.

How Proxies Enhance Security, Access, and Efficiency in the Digital World

As digital activity grows across industries, the need for secure, flexible, and high-performance online tools becomes increasingly important. Proxies are among the most valuable solutions available today, helping both individuals and businesses safeguard their data, streamline online operations, and access global resources without restrictions.

Best Proxy Server for Gaming: Top 6 Services Reviewed

Are you tired of game-breaking lag, frustrating geo-blocks, or network restrictions at home or school? In this case, you will need a powerful solution to improve your experience. One of the methods is to use a trusted proxy, which will shield your connection and reduce ping in your gameplay. But it is never easy to pick out the best proxy server for gaming, as there are so many providers claiming to offer the best service. To help you out, this guide will walk you through the top 6 services in the market. Now, let's move on to grab the best!

Is Your Network Modernization Frozen by Fear?

Have you ever stood before a critical piece of network infrastructure, knowing it desperately needs an upgrade, yet felt a wave of paralysis wash over you? You’re not alone. It’s a common feeling when facing a project as significant as a data center migration or a move to a modern leaf-spine architecture.

AI for Good: Securing Networks in the Age of Autonomous Attacks

The rise of autonomous AI attacks operating at machine speed demands that network security evolve beyond human capacity and manual processes. Kentik AI Advisor counters this threat by using AI for good, reasoning across full network context to proactively eliminate vulnerabilities and guide immediate, confident defense.

When to Move From Public Internet to Private Connectivity

Struggling with latency, congestion, or compliance issues? Discover when it’s time to move from public internet to private connectivity. Network operations have never demanded more than they do now, leading many network managers to question whether the public internet is enough. While many organizations begin their network journey with VPNs over the public internet, they often bump into limitations quickly and begin exploring the natural next step – private connectivity.

How to Onboard AWS & Azure Hosts in SolarWinds Observability

Connecting your cloud infrastructure has never been easier. In this quick walkthrough, you’ll see how SolarWinds Observability natively integrates with AWS and Azure to onboard virtual machines and supported managed services—fast. Select your hyperscaler Click “Add Data” → Choose “Hosts” Follow simple steps to connect your cloud environment via API Whether you're running AWS EC2, Azure VMs, or other managed services, SolarWinds helps you get visibility in minutes.

Instruction Without Disruption: Reliable Connectivity with C1 Managed Internal Broadband Services

Empowering Seamless Learning Experiences through Dependable, Human-Centered Connectivity. Maintaining a reliable and secure broadband network is no longer a luxury for schools; it’s a necessity. K-12 schools face unique challenges when it comes to leveraging technology for education, from limited budgets and resources to the increasingly sophisticated security risks threatening connectivity. When disruptions occur, the impacts on teaching, learning, and administrative operations can be significant.

Introducing Kentik AI Advisor

Introducing Kentik AI Advisor. AI with a comprehensive understanding of your network that thinks critically and advises how to design, operate, and protect infrastructure at scale. With the rise of hybrid cloud networks and the growing demands of AI infrastructure, network teams are under pressure to balance cost, performance, and security, often with limited resources that delay critical strategic initiatives.

Introducing Kentik AI Advisor: The Future of Network Intelligence

Introducing Kentik AI Advisor, a powerful new AI designed to deeply understand your network, reason through complex issues, and deliver clear, actionable guidance for designing, operating, and protecting your networks. By autonomously querying Kentik’s rich telemetry and tools, it explains what’s happening, why it matters, and what to do next — from troubleshooting and capacity planning to cost optimization and risk mitigation.

How to Achieve Deep Network Visibility with SolarWinds Observability SaaS

Looking for a faster way to discover every device on your network? This video walks through how SolarWinds Observability automatically scans and classifies network gear—including routers, switches, access points, firewalls, and SD-WAN devices—in seconds. You’ll learn how to: This is the easiest way to get full network visibility without scripts, config files, or manual inventory work.

How to Monitor .NET Applications on Linux with SolarWinds Observability | Step-by-Step Setup

This video provides a step-by-step walkthrough for configuring monitoring for.NET applications running on Linux using SolarWinds Observability. The demonstration covers the full setup process—from adding a new service to verifying the APM library connection. Topics covered in this video include: This guide is intended for developers, system administrators, and DevOps engineers who need to quickly and reliably instrument.NET applications on Linux for performance monitoring and observability.

Automating Network Devices with NETCONF and YANG in Puppet Edge

This video offers a practical guide to automating network devices using YANG data models and the NETCONF protocol while using Puppet Edge. Gain the knowledge to streamline your network operations and enhance consistency. Perforce Puppet gives IT operations teams back their time and offers peace of mind with infrastructure automation that enables security and compliance.

What is Network Observability vs. Network Monitoring?

Network observability may be seen as a newer term in the world of networking, but it has become critical for managing modern distributed networks. As networks grow more complex with cloud services, remote workers, and distributed applications, traditional network monitoring approaches no longer provide sufficient visibility into network health and performance.

Unleashing Progress Flowmon 13: Speed, Smarts and Security Redefined

At Progress, we continue to develop and enhance the Progress Flowmon product family. The latest update brings the core Flowmon product to release 13.0, and it includes remarkable performance improvements, strengthened security and expanded protocol support. Full details of what’s new and improved in the latest release are available on the Flowmon product page. In this blog, we’re excited to highlight the newest features and improvements to the Flowmon solution.

Beyond the Horizon: Vulnerability Management - Turning Cyber Hygiene into Business Confidence

Discover why vulnerability management is critical for cyber and business resilience — and how N-able is reinventing the process. In this episode of Head Nerd Table, Jason Murphy sits down with Jeff Green, Distinguished Product Leader for Vulnerability Management at N-able, to unpack why vulnerability management is no longer optional — it’s essential. Jeff shares insights from his experience as a CTO and MSP leader, explaining how vulnerability management underpins both cybersecurity and business continuity.

The Seven Wastes of Network Operations

Does it ever feel like your network operations team is constantly running, yet always struggling to keep up? The ticket queues are long, troubleshooting is a complex detective story, and every new application deployment adds another layer of anxiety. This constant state of reactive firefighting isn't a sign of a bad team; it's the symptom of a broken process. This operational friction, the invisible tax on every action your team takes, has a name: waste.

Your NOC's Most Important New Skill? Ignoring Things

I want to challenge a deeply held belief in our industry, one that I once championed myself: the idea that more data is the answer. We've spent a fortune building vast data lakes of network telemetry, believing that if we could just collect everything, we would achieve a state of operational nirvana.

Network Monitoring vs. Network Observability: What Do You Need?

A decade ago, network monitoring was straightforward. You had a data center, some branch offices, MPLS circuits connecting everything, and a handful of applications running on-premises. Set some SNMP thresholds, configure a few alerts, and you were covered. When something broke, the problem was usually obvious: a failed switch, a saturated link, a misconfigured router. Today's networks bear zero resemblance to that world.

OpManager streamlined IT for Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network

When Detroit Wayne Integrated Health Network needed reliability at every heartbeat, they turned to ManageEngine OpManager. From chaos to clarity, OpManager unified their IT, reduced downtime, and powered faster, smarter care delivery. Discover how you can do the same.

Observabili-Mystery Solved: From Clues to Answers in 3, 2, 1...

Observability doesn’t have to be a mystery. Join SolarWinds Tech Evangelist Chrystal Taylor and THWACK MVP Jez Marsh, Owner of Silver Back Systems, as they crack the code on turning noisy data into actionable insights. Part of the THWACKcamp lineup from SolarWinds Day, in this session you’ll learn how to analyze raw logs and metrics to uncover trends, catch issues early, and make smarter, faster decisions. Discover practical techniques for linking cloud and on-premises data, reducing false alerts, and automating repetitive tasks with tools like Custom Properties.

Cisco & Auvik: Total Visibility and Control for Your Network with Auvik

Managing modern networks is complicated, and it’s easy for critical Cisco gear to quietly hit End-of-Sale (EOS) or Last Date of Support (LDOS) without anyone noticing. That can open the door to serious risks, technical debt, and compliance issues. Manual tracking and scattered tools just can’t keep up anymore. Watch this video to see how to stay ahead: Save Money and Reduce Headaches: Lower costs and tackle technical debt with smarter lifecycle management for your Cisco hardware.

The Hidden Bottlenecks in AI Infrastructure (and How to Fix Them)

Artificial intelligence has entered an era where infrastructure is the real moat. Teams spend millions on GPUs, yet models still stall, latency spikes unpredictably, and throughput flatlines at 20% of what spec sheets promise. These hidden bottlenecks lurk far beneath the surface - in power grids, network fabrics, memory bandwidth, orchestration layers, and even governance policies. In this guide, we uncover where AI infrastructure actually breaks, what the emerging data and research reveal, and how Clarifai's reasoning and orchestration stack helps eliminate these unseen friction points.

VoIP Jitter Survival Guide: How to Diagnose, Monitor & Troubleshoot

VoIP jitter is the variation in packet arrival time during voice calls, measured in milliseconds. When voice packets travel across your network at inconsistent intervals; some arriving faster, others slower—you experience jitter. Acceptable jitter for VoIP is 30 milliseconds or less. Above this threshold, you'll notice choppy audio, robotic voices, delays, and call drops that disrupt business communication.

Introducing Network Destinations: ICMP Monitoring for Any IP

For those who don't know Obkio, we're a synthetic Network Performance Monitoring, Troubleshooting and Diagnostics platform. We help network teams identify, diagnose, and resolve performance issues across distributed networks, from remote offices to cloud applications. For years, we've focused on what we do best: agent-to-agent performance monitoring.

Announcing HAProxy Unified Gateway (beta)

The continuous shift toward containerization means businesses are migrating more complex, mission-critical workloads to Kubernetes. This trend necessitates traffic management solutions that support diverse protocols (such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, and gRPC) and sophisticated organizational architectures, while delivering exceptional performance and efficiency.

AFK: The Only Status You Need When AFW - SolarWinds TechPod 103

What does real work-life balance look like in tech? In this honest and funny conversation, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor share stories from their sabbaticals, burnout moments, and how they learned to unplug — for real this time. Topics we get into: Why burnout hits tech pros harder than most The art of saying “no” and setting healthy boundaries How to stop chasing “perfect” and embrace good enough Why taking time off sets a better example for your team Reframing success: from “always on” to sustainably productive.

Boosting Profitability with Ribbon Intelligent Solutions

Ready to Make Your Network Smarter? Ribbon’s Exclusive Preview Before Africa Tech Festival Attend to Learn About Ribbon's: Intelligent Automated IP Optical Networks Multilayer Automation & AIOps The Path towards Autonomous Networks Don’t miss this chance to see what’s next for service providers.

Network Destinations: ICMP Monitoring Feature Highlight - Obkio

Introducing Network Destinations, Obkio's all-new ICMP Monitoring feature. Quick question: are you paying for a second tool just to ping a few IPs? We heard that a lot. So we fixed it. Now, here's the thing about Obkio. We've always been laser-focused on agent-to-agent performance monitoring. Our secret? Distributed monitoring agents. Deploy them at your sites and over the Internet, and you get complete visibility between them, all in the app.

Megaport and Latitude.sh: Bringing Compute and Connectivity Together

Megaport has entered into an agreement to acquire Latitude.sh, creating an industry-leading Compute and Network-as-a-Service platform to power high-performance applications and AI workloads globally. At Megaport, we’ve always believed infrastructure should be simple to use, powerful at scale, and flexible enough to follow the workloads that matter most.

From Alerts to Assets: Mastering the Lifecycle of Your Telecom-Heavy Infrastructure

Modern organizations run on connectivity. Whether it's cloud communications, unified collaboration tools, or large-scale IoT networks, telecom infrastructure has become the nervous system of business operations. Every message, call, and data packet flows through this intricate network - and with that, the complexity of managing it has grown exponentially.

Microsoft Teams Monitoring to Troubleshoot & Optimize Performance

Microsoft Teams has become the collaboration backbone for businesses worldwide. But when call quality drops during a crucial client meeting or files won't upload before a deadline, productivity grinds to a halt. The frustration? These issues are usually preventable. The challenge with Teams is that problems can originate from multiple sources: user devices, network infrastructure, or Microsoft's platform itself.

Reimagining Network and Security Operations: How AI and Automation Are Transforming the Modern NOC & SOC

In today’s hyper-connected, always-on enterprise landscape, every second of downtime, every unnoticed anomaly, and every delayed response can have cascading business implications. Traditional Network and Security Operations Centers (NOCs and SOCs), built on manual triage and siloed data, were never designed for this pace or scale.

How Auvik Helps MSPs Eliminate Network Alert Fatigue

When alerts come in hot and fast, alert fatigue can quickly set in, overwhelming you with the volume and becoming one of the biggest operational problems for MSPs. Not knowing what to handle first and prioritize in a long list of alerts puts a strain on one of the most valuable resources you have: focus. When your technicians are constantly switching contexts and sifting through a flood of low-priority alerts, it’s asking a lot of them to stay sharp. That constant mental juggling takes a toll.

From Plan to Practice: Strengthen Incident Response with Tabletop Exercises

N-able Head Nerd Lewis Pope explains how Managed Service Providers (MSPs) and IT teams can use cybersecurity tabletop exercises to improve incident response readiness. Learn how to design, facilitate, and get business value from these exercises -plus access free CISA and N-able resources to help you get started. Watch now to strengthen your team’s response before the next cyber incident hits.

Show Me the AI: Rethinking How AI Fits Into Network Operations

Over the last couple of years, nearly every network and infrastructure observability platform has added the word “AI” to its messaging. Some have introduced helpful capabilities. Others have simply added a chatbot on top of the same dashboards that have existed for a decade. In many ways, the term has started to lose meaning. But inside network operations, the conversation hasn’t disappeared. It has simply become more blunt.

Optimizing Supply Chain Operations: Modern EDI Networks and B2B Integration

Supply chain operations have become the competitive battleground where efficiency gains translate directly into market advantage. Organizations managing complex networks of suppliers, distributors, and customers face mounting pressure to reduce cycle times, eliminate errors, and provide real-time visibility into transactions that span multiple systems and business partners. The traditional approach of managing these relationships through manual processes, email exchanges, and disconnected systems creates bottlenecks that constrain growth and introduce costly errors at every handoff point.

Choosing the Right Load Balancing Approach for Your Network: Static, Dynamic, & Advanced Techniques

Load Balancing is the process of distributing network traffic among multiple server resources. The objective of load balancing is to optimize certain network operations. Ensuring that a workload is spread evenly among the computing resources, this “balanced load” improves application responsiveness and accommodates unexpected traffic spikes — all without compromising application performance. Let’s take a deeper look at this important networking function.

Cybersecurity Monitoring Best Practices: Building a Stronger Defense Against Modern Threats

Let’s be honest—the cybersecurity battlefield keeps changing fast. Attackers evolve their tactics, networks expand, and data flows in every direction. If you’re responsible for protecting your organization’s security, staying ahead of cyber threats can feel like chasing shadows. This is where effective cybersecurity monitoring comes in.

From Observability to Network Intelligence: How Kentik Built the Foundation for Networks That Think

The age of dashboards is ending, as observability has only created more noise for network teams to sift through. Kentik SVP of Product, Mav Turner, lays out why true network intelligence requires a clean, contextual data foundation to finally create a network that thinks.

Why Your Website's Speed & Structure Affect Visibility

Website performance and organization are vital for a brand's digital success in today's competitive online environment. Users demand quick responses and seamless experiences, and delays can lead to frustration and lower search engine rankings. Focusing on load speed, straightforward navigation, mobile compatibility, and technical stability is crucial for businesses to stay relevant and competitive. A fast, well-organized website provides users with instant access to information, easy navigation, and low friction. Neglecting these aspects can lead to missed opportunities, reduced organic traffic, and poor online engagement.

Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience: Key Differences

In IT, change is the only constant, and sometimes it arrives as a major disruption. This could include a power outage, a cyberattack, or even a global pandemic. While it’s impossible to foresee every crisis, you can be ready for them. Two key concepts for this are business continuity and business resilience. Although these terms are often used interchangeably, they refer to two separate yet complementary strategies for ensuring your organization keeps operating under any circumstances.

How to Improve Your Microsoft ExpressRoute Resilience with Megaport Connectivity

Improve ExpressRoute reliability with these deployment models and strategies for stronger cloud resilience, powered by Megaport. Every year, businesses become even more reliant on their network for the success of their entire operations. For the 350,000+ companies using Microsoft Azure, building resilient, reliable network connectivity to this service is essential.

The Top Five Business Continuity Software

Disaster can strike any business at any time. Businesses must be prepared to continue critical operations with minimal disruption, whether it’s a flooded server room, a data breach, or any other kind of exploit. That’s why it’s essential to have strong measures in place—including a business continuity plan (BCP)—and the right tools to support these measures.

Common Microsoft Teams Issues & How to Troubleshoot

Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular tools for work communication today. Whether you're chatting with your team, jumping on a video call, or sharing files, it helps keep everyone connected. But let's face it – MS Teams isn’t perfect. You’ve probably run into issues like calls dropping, bad audio, or slow Teams performance. These problems can be frustrating, especially when you’re in the middle of an important meeting or deadline.

Discover resources smarter with deep discovery in internet services

Discover how Deep Discovery from Site24x7 simplifies your website monitoring by automatically detecting, grouping, and managing all related resources—so you don’t miss a thing. In this video, we walk you through a real-world use case, the problems Site24x7 solves, and how its time-saving features like Bulk Addition make managing multiple monitors effortless. Whether you’re tracking SSL, DNSs, APIs, or website performance, Deep Discovery gives you complete visibility without manual hassle.

40 Best Cloud Network Monitoring Tools of 2026 for All Platforms and Giants like AWS, Google, Azure, IBM, and Oracle

Cloud network monitoring software is a type of software designed to monitor and manage the performance, availability, and security of networks and network devices in cloud environments. These tools use various techniques to gather information about network traffic, bandwidth utilization, application performance, and other metrics related to network health and availability.