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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Paessler PRTG

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/APRTG Network Monitor is the flagship offering from German software company Paessler, for monitoring local and wide area networks (LANs & WANs), servers, websites, apps, and more.

    $2,149

    per year

    Preseem

    Score8.8 out of 10
    N/APreseem is Proactive Growth, Customer Support, and Network Operations for regional ISPs, whether they're fixed wireless, fiber, or hybrid. Growth Preseem helps to uncover acquisition and upsell opportunities, deliver great customer experiences, and increase customer loyalty. Customer Loyalty: Preseem helps subscribers achieve a reliable, low-latency internet experience without buffering, lag, or slow internet. Preseem's AP Subscriber…

    $300

    per month

    Pricing
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Editions & Modules
    PRTG 500
    $2,149
    per year
    Hosted 500
    $2,149
    per year
    PRTG 1,000
    $3,899
    per year
    Hosted 1000
    $3,899
    per year
    PRTG 2,500
    $8,099
    per year
    Hosted 2500
    $8,099
    per year
    PRTG 5,000
    $14,199
    per year
    Hosted 5000
    $14,199
    per year
    PRTG 10000
    $17,899
    per year
    PRTG Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    subscription license
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Preseem pricing is based on a per subscriber per month basis. Prices start at $0.60 per subscriber per month, with volume discounts available. The minimum monthly subscription is $200.
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    Community Pulse
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    Considered Both Products
    Paessler
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    Preseem
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    41 Answers
    83%
    Would buy again
    5 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    5 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    42 Answers
    83%
    Happy with the feature set
    5 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    28 Answers
    83%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    5 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    38 Answers
    83%
    Implementation went as expected
    5 Answers
    Features
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Paessler PRTG and Preseem
    Feature
    Paessler PRTG
    7.4
    67 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Preseem
    8.7
    6 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Automated network device discovery7.260 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring9.766 Ratings9.16 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation8.757 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Alerts8.967 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning6.548 Ratings9.15 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis6.134 Ratings6.94 Ratings
    Network mapping5.647 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Customizable reports5.857 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring6.249 Ratings8.96 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring9.264 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Small Businesses
    Auvik
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Auvik
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    PingPlotter
    Score9 out of 10
    PingPlotter
    Score9 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nmap
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Nmap
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.8
    (68 ratings)
    8.8
    (6 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.9
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.3
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (19 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Paessler PRTGPreseem
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Paessler
    integrates seamlessly with Windows servers via WMI and PowerShell, providing deep insights into resource usage, performance metrics, and system health. It's excellent at tracking CPU, memory, disk space, and event logs, enabling rapid troubleshooting and proactive maintenance. PRTG Network Monitor also effectively monitors Fortigate devices, providing detailed data on firewall health, traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, VPN status, and security alerts. This visibility helps detect and resolve network security issues promptly.
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    For any ISP that wants to know the QoE their customers experience while using their service, Preseem is an excellent choice. The rate plan shaping also makes sure the connection feels fast, even if the speeds are being 100% utilized by the customer. This is not a DPI service though, so you can't classify or shape certain services over others. All traffic is treated fairly, and small flows are moved to the front of the queue to make sure interactive traffic like VOIP, DNS, and gaming is working well ahead of large downloads.
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    Pros
    Paessler
    • Switch monitoring and finding out if there are communication issues or throughput alerts are reached
    • Big picture view of the whole infrastructure and what is functioning and what is not
    • Uptime tracking is great and lets us know for how long a device is down or overall uptime
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    Preseem
    • Graphical real time data of condition of our network.
    • Real-time data of network performance, network-wide, tower site-wide, sector-wide, and down to the subscriber level. Data that is both current and historical so we can see trends happening before a service-impacting issue arises.
    • The comparison of our network equipment performance compared to identical equipment that others have deployed throughout their entire customer base.
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    Cons
    Paessler
    • Licensing on a per entity basis can be cumbersome for devices which have a ton of monitoring points like network switches\routers. Each sensor may count against a license, which could be a lot of you were monitoring every TX\RX of an SFP for example
    • A better method to easily template\copy monitors across devices
    • The navigation in the web GUI could be a little more straightforward in terms of the hierarchy
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    Preseem
    • The tool could stand to be a little less engineered, but really the ROI isn't there for them to do so. I don't think most of us care about how pretty it looks, more so does it work and can I figure it out in relatively short order.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Paessler
    I would renew it because the platform has brought us many technical and economic benefits that make the cost-benefit ratio very good. Additionally, to do so does not require large investments in training, licensing or infrastructure, and at the administration level, extensive knowledge is not required to be able to bear it.
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Paessler
    The tool is very intuitive to use and it is Windows-based (everybody knows how to use Windows) so it's easy to get into. Every time is setup in a hierarchy so if you have a good initial hierarchy design, it will really reduce administrative effort down the road.
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Paessler
    PRTG does everything we need it to do and more. Ease of use, ease of management and maintenance and clarity of monitoring of hundreds of different types of device and service gives this a large advantage over other products on the market that I have tried. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a network monitoring product in their environment and even to people who don't know they need a solution yet!
    Incentivized
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    Preseem
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Paessler
    It's very important that de project's teams have different member of the TI. We have learned too late the importa of Security Analyst at the design architecture moment. We have to rebuild part of the implementation for made this big mistake.
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    Preseem
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    Alternatives Considered
    Paessler
    PRTG offers more versatility in monitoring when compared to the other solutions we tested. The other solutions were also limited as far as customization options, which made them less adaptable to our networks. When compared to Auvik, for instance, we prefer PRTG as it offers immediate notifications through the desktop client - not limited to email notifications as with Auvik. We also appreciate the fact that PRTG can be self/on-prem hosted vs Auvik's cloud model. This makes for an easier deployment and less firewall adjustments to allow traffic to cloud-hosted solutions.
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    Preseem
    Any Amplifi product can show client infrastructure usage and date. the Dream Machine is perfect because it has built-in everything for the client to manage his local network.
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    Return on Investment
    Paessler
    • The ability to analyze multiple pieces of information in one place, especially with historical data, has saved our IT department time and headaches. It would be so much more difficult to trace an issue without PRTG, just relying on event logs and an open task manager window.
    • The cost is not cheap, so it's an expense that hits the bottom line like everything else. Figure in hardware costs as well, ideally a server outside of your main environment.
    • I keep saying this, but the historical data piece is worth so much. There's really no good way to collect all of that information in one place without something like PRTG. And that definitely saves time and money in the long run.
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    Preseem
    • Best money we have ever spent on technology
    • Night and day difference in application performance after Preseem was implemented.
    • Key tool for customer satisfaction.
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