Network and IT infrastructure monitoring is something necessary for all connected organizations today. However, choosing the right network monitoring tool and software is not easy as there is a huge diversity of these tools on the market now. Comprehensive network and IT monitoring tools help you manage your devices and ensure that they are available when you need them. These tools and software offer a wide variety of benefits for companies of all sizes.

In our on-demand webinar, Obkio’s network pros go over our network diagnostics process of how to locate and troubleshoot live network issues faster with Obkio network performance monitoring vs. traditional monitoring solutions. Networks are changing, and monitoring solutions need to keep up.

Most Internet-centric organizations today use some form of APM tools, as they should. But they are insufficient. Over the last ten years, the world has completely changed. If you think about it, in the first decade of this millennium, most businesses had an Exchange server, maybe Siebel CRM, a file share, and a range of other business apps, usually hosted in the same building. Everything was on the LAN. Today, it is the exact opposite. Everything is distributed.

This past year was another busy one for the internet. In this blog post, I will highlight some of the top pieces of analysis that we published in the past 12 months. This analysis employs Kentik’s data, technology, and expertise to inform the industry and the public about issues involving the technical underpinnings of the global internet and how global events can impact connectivity. These posts are organized into two broad categories: major internet disruptions and BGP routing security.