Ensure your computer systems are running smoothly, avoid outages, and increase the efficiency of your network by monitoring bandwidth and resource consumption with Paessler PRTG network monitoring tools.
Setup is quick and easy in just minutes with the auto-discovery of our network meter. The preconfigured device templates select the appropriate sensor settings for servers, applications, and network devices. You can also manually configure PRTG, of course.
With the freeware edition of PRTG, you can get started with network monitoring in a matter of minutes. Our auto-discovery function detects all the devices within a given IP address range and automatically incorporates them into your monitoring environment.
Network monitoring refers to the monitoring of an entire network environment. Its goal is to allow sysadmins to work in a better, quicker, and more efficient manner. Network monitoring focuses on parameters such as bandwidth consumption and the availability of network devices.
Some of the monitored devices include the local and Internet-based systems in an IT environment, such as databases, applications, clouds, servers, and network infrastructures. Network monitoring allows admins to ensure their networks run smoothly, effectively, and free of errors.
Yes, you can. You get to choose which devices are monitored by PRTG. You also get to define the scope of your monitoring. For example, you can choose to only monitor the CPU, free disk space, or certain ports of a specific device.
Yes. PRTG uses Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), performance counters, and SNMP to monitor your Windows Servers, operating system, processes, and services. You can monitor the following Windows parameters, for example:
SMS group GmbH provides production plants for the steel industry worldwide that rely on modern control technology as well as automation systems with corresponding real-time networks. The company uses PRTG to ensure performance and reliability during the construction, testing, and start-up of metallurgical plants (steel production plants), and thereby optimizes the quality of its production lines.
Gain practical knowledge on how to monitor your infrastructure with Paessler PRTG. Our training sessions are planned and provided by Paessler system engineers and are suitable for different experience levels.
With PRTG, system administrators can keep an eye on the health and performance of their network devices, traffic, applications, services, and much more, to make sure that their IT and business processes run smoothly at all times.
PRTG is an all-in-one monitoring solution, which means that no matter which license or subscription plan you choose, you're able to set up comprehensive monitoring for your entire IT infrastructure. With PRTG, you get the full package:
To keep an eye on the entire IT environment, there are specialized IT monitoring tools that constantly collect, log, and analyze data about the health, availability, and performance of all hardware and software in the respective network. This includes, for example:
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Our PRTG roadmap mentions another MQTT sensor and there should also be something for monitoring your Microsoft365 environment. I don't want to reveal too much, but the next release will be awesome, so stay tuned. ?
You are monitoring a large IT infrastructure but never heard of PRTG Enterprise Monitor yet? Then you should look at this page and learn more about the annual per sensor subscription, how to easily roll out more than 20,000 sensors and the ITOps Board which is exclusively provided for PRTG Enterprise Monitor.
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PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher until version 7) is a network monitoring software developed by Paessler AG. It falls under the broader Faessier PRTG product family and is designed to monitor system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts such as switches, routers, servers, and other devices and applications.[2]
The monitoring software Paessler PRTG is available in three versions. In addition to the classic standalone solution PRTG Network Monitor, Paessler sells PRTG Enterprise Monitor for large and distributed networks and PRTG Hosted Monitor as a SaaS-version.[4]
PRTG Network Monitor is the classic on-premises monitoring solution, which is hosted on a server in the user's network. For the installation of the core server, a computer with the Windows Server operating system is required.
Since 2020, Paessler has offered PRTG Enterprise Monitor, a specialized monitoring solution for large IT environments. In addition to a particularly high performance for distributed locations, PRTG Enterprise Monitor also includes the ITOps Board, which provides a centralized service-oriented overview. It can be used to map business processes, consolidate dashboards from multiple servers, and monitor SLA performance and availability, among other features.[5]
In 2017, a cloud-hosted version of PRTG was released. PRTG Hosted Monitor offers largely the same range of functions as the standard tool. The license is billed monthly and is based solely on the number of sensors. In contrast to PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Enterprise Monitor, PRTG Hosted Monitor can also be used in networks without a Windows server, since it is hosted in the cloud and not locally.
Paessler PRTG has an auto-discovery mode that scans predefined areas of an enterprise network and creates a device list from this data. In the next step, further information on the detected devices can be retrieved using various communication protocols. Typical protocols are ICMP, SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, but also communication via DCOM or the RESTful API is possible.[6]
The software is based on sensors that are configured for a specific purpose. A PRTG sensor is a single metric on a device. For instance, when managing a switch, a sensor could be measuring network health, or whether the switch's CPU utilization is running above 90%. Most devices require between five and ten sensors to be fully monitored.[7] There are HTTP, SMTP/POP3 (e-mail) application sensors and hardware-specific sensors for switches, routers and servers. PRTG Network Monitor has over 200 different predefined sensors that retrieve statistics from the monitored instances, e.g. response times, processor, memory, database information, temperature or system status.[8][9]
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You can access your PRTG installation on your mobile devices with several PRTG apps. We provide apps for iOS devices, Android systems, and Windows Phone. You can download and use these apps for free. PRTG for iOS, PRTG for Android, and PRTG for Windows Phone, and make it possible to monitor your network while on the go.
The basic requirements to use these free apps are a running PRTG core server which is accessible from the network your device is connected to (either directly or via a VPN connection) and a recent operating system version on your mobile device. For details about requirements, see below.
You can access your PRTG installation on your mobile devices with several PRTG apps. We provide apps for iOS devices, Android systems, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry. You can download and use these apps for free. PRTG for iOS, PRTG for Android, PRTG for Windows Phone, and PRTG for BlackBerry (beta) make it possible to monitor your network while on the go.
Note: We recommend you always have a proper backup of your monitoring data and configuration. In most cases both will be maintained when upgrading. Anyway, we recommend a backup before upgrading. Please see More section below.
If you have been running PRTG Network monitor with an earlier 12.x version number, simply install the latest version on top of the previous version. Your configuration will be kept. If you have configured PRTG as a cluster, you only have to install an update on any node server (master or failover). The new version will then be deployed to the cluster automatically. Note: We recommend you always have a proper backup of your monitoring data.
Note: If you're running PRTG 7 or 8 we recommend you first update to the latest PRTG 8 version as an intermediate step, in order to make sure all data is carried over correctly. Please contact technical support to obtain a download link for PRTG 8. In any case we recommend you always keep a proper backup of your configuration and monitoring data.
If you have been using IPCheck 5 or PRTG Traffic Grapher 6, please perform a clean installation of PRTG 12 and set up your configuration anew. Using PRTG's Auto-Discovery is the easiest way to quickly configure a monitoring of your entire network. Please see Quick Start Guide section for more information.
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