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How to Monitor Google Network Performance: Google Meet, Google Workspace, Gmail and Google Calendar

Application slowdowns, poor Internet speed, and laggy video calls are always frustrating. Whether you’re working in an office, or working from home, it’s important to keep an eye on the applications that matter most. In this article, we’re teaching you how to monitor the network performance of Google apps, including Google Meet, Google Workspace, Gmail & Google Calendar.

Who Uses A Network Performance Monitor

Network performance monitoring has become a standard practice for modern businesses. With the shift towards large cloud-based applications, and hosted services, businesses rely on optimal network performance to sustain some of their key applications. Because of that, tools like network performance monitoring software have piqued the interest of users even outside of the IT team.

Introducing Agent Modes

Today we are introducing the Agent Modes to help our users to configure the client / server relation between monitoring agents. This article describes the differences between the old settings and the new one. The documentation on Agent Modes is available at Agent Modes. This article refers to old settings that are no longer available in the App and it should be read only by users used to these old settings.

Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Monitor Network Performance

Modern networks are complex beasts. With this complexity comes many opportunities for things to go wrong. Additionally, networks are often the backbone of businesses, and so when they don’t perform to the best of their capabilities, your business may suffer. As a network administrator, this is certainly something you’d rather avoid. One of the best ways to avoid business-impacting issues is to see them coming and fix them before they have a chance to wreak havoc.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) for HTTP URLs

Since its beginning, Obkio's solution focused on Network Monitoring with the Network Performance Monitoring and Network Device Monitoring feature sets. With these features, IT teams can monitor and troubleshoot intermittent network issues with precise network metrics including some Quality of Experience (QoE) metrics based VoIP Quality and MOS Score.

Microsoft Login Failures Affecting Office 365 and Azure

On Monday, September 28th 2020, Microsoft had a failure with their authentication system that affected major products and services such as Office 365, Outlook, Teams, Sharepoint, Azure and many others. The Microsoft login failure affected consumer and business users that were not already authenticated with the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) service. Microsoft confirmed the outage on their Azure Status Dashboard website.

ThinkTel Network Assessment for UC Deployment Case Study

Find out how ThinkTel, a provider of advanced hosted, and on-premises, voice, video, conferencing, and data solutions for the Enterprise, Carrier and SMB markets throughout Canada, leverages Obkio’s Network Performance Monitoring solution to perform a network assessment of clients’ network capability to support the specific requirements of Real Time Media and deploy a Unified Communication solution with confidence (Microsoft Teams via Direct Routing, Skype for Business).