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PRTG

Overview

What is PRTG?

PRTG 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.

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Pricing

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PRTG 500

$2,149

On Premise
per year

Hosted 500

$2,149

Cloud
per year

PRTG 1,000

$3,899

On Premise
per year

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.paessler.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $2,149 per year
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Product Demos

PGT 305 : MINI PROJECT - DEMO VIDEO PRTG NETWORK MONITOR

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PGT 305 : MINI PROJECT - DEMO VIDEO PRTG NETWORK MONITOR

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PRTG Network Monitor Demo

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PRTG Network Monitor Live Demo

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Monitor Large Scale Environments the Easy Way - PRTG Network Monitor

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Features

Network Performance Monitoring

A network performance monitoring system monitors the entire network for performance problems and collects performance data such as network traffic analysis performance bottlenecks, etc.

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Product Details

What is PRTG?

PRTG 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. It also includes free VoIP monitoring software.

PRTG Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows
Mobile ApplicationAndroid

Frequently Asked Questions

PRTG 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.

PRTG starts at $2149.

ManageEngine OpManager, N-able N-central, and Datadog are common alternatives for PRTG.

Reviewers rate Network monitoring highest, with a score of 9.5.

The most common users of PRTG are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

(1-5 of 22)

The perfect tool for the little guy

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 04, 2019
EE
Vetted Review
Verified User
PRTG Network Monitor
3 years of experience
We use PRTG Network Monitor as a central monitoring platform for our 4 corporate sites (including Amazon AWS) as well as all of our customer locations (around 10 sites) that are spread across the USA. It's our primary monitoring tool for our entire organization. It does SNMP monitoring well and it makes remote support (an essential part of our business model) of all of our sites possible will alerts that get sent to whoever needs to be notified when something happens.
  • Consistent, real-time alerts.
  • A decent repository of MIB's and OID's for quick auto-discovery.
  • User-friendly interface.
Cons
  • Its MIB library could be expanded by quite a lot, I have to spend a lot of time with device manufacturer support when I need to monitor something specific (fan speed, firmware version, etc).
  • It's really not that scaleable beyond 10,000 sensors.
Our organization is quickly outgrowing PRTG as an SNMP network monitoring tool. We have around 20 total sites we monitor and we're pushing over 16,000 sensors. For a small organization, it's really great and affordable. Once you grow beyond the 10,000 sensor mark, however, it starts to get very pricey and not very efficient.

PRTG is a long-standing company that provides great value!

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 16, 2020
Vetted Review
Verified User
PRTG Network Monitor
8 years of experience
We use PRTG to monitor our entire IT infrastructure, applications, and websites. It is a critical part of our operational strategy to monitor system availability and performance. We use it to pro-actively tell IT staff of a current problem or even a potential problem so we find out in most cases before customers report the problem. I would say the pro-active component is most valuable.
  • Being able to customize sensors for each server or application (what is being monitored)
  • The variety of hardware and software sensors to choose from is great.
  • The accuracy of the sensors. If PRTG is reporting a problem then that event is really happening.
  • We can choose the thresholds for each sensor. So for example what is a down state or warning state.
  • A lot of options regarding notifications - email, text, timeframes, normal business hours, weekend hours, etc.
  • Ability to see and report on sensor history and get uptime stats.
Cons
  • There is a reporting feature but the reports are not necessarily "pretty".
  • The learning curve isn't real steep but it can be a little difficult to configure and get things the way you want them. Definitely trial and error.
  • The automatic scan of a server includes a lot of sensors that are not really usable. And considering licensing is based on the number of sensors, it's easier to just pick the sensors you want to monitor. It would be nice if could create a template of sensors to track.
We are a small IT shop, but I could see if your environment is extremely complex with multiple sites and decentralized it would take some effort to configure everything correctly using PRTG Network Monitor. Even if your environment has 100+ servers but IT staff are centralized it's very realistic to configure everything correctly and get the notifications where you want them.

The right size for everyone

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 05, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
PRTG Network Monitor
3 years of experience
PRTG Network Monitor is primarily being used by the IT department, however, the electrical department will also receive notifications for some device down notifications. We primarily use it for the notification functionality but also use the dashboard for some things. We work on a large construction site and have multiple locations - it's critical to respond to outages ASAP as they will have a negative effect on the business.
  • Prompt notifications when a device goes down.
  • Beautiful history graph showing you uptime/statuses
Cons
  • Interface is a little difficult to navigate if you aren't tech savvy.
  • Configuration of hierarchy can take a bit of time to set-up.
Particularly if you are a shop that has a lot of devices but not a ton of manpower to manage those devices, this software is a huge benefit. It's inexpensive compared to the big enterprise solutions and far easier to set-up than the open-source alternatives like Nagios. It's the right size for most groups. Node/monitor based licensing allows me to be flexible with what I need. Most devices are just up/down notifications, some have SNTP, etc. It's great!

PRTG for Remote Server Monitoring

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 16, 2016
Vetted Review
Verified User
PRTG Network Monitor
1 year of experience
We currently use PRTG to monitor our servers in an off site data center. We currently use it to monitor all the web, database, and application servers at the remote site. It works great at giving us real time performance data on our servers. What I personally like about network monitor are the custom alerts that can be configured for it. It has been a great tool for our organization.
  • It has an easy to use interface, that requires no training to use.
  • A user can create custom reports and alerts for each server being monitored.
  • The system requires little maintenance to keep working properly.
Cons
  • The web interface can be a little slow to work with.
  • It can be difficult to find specific settings needed to configure different nodes.
  • There are multiple interfaces, and it can be hard to change into the interface that is best for each user.
I have found that it works great in a remote setting. One of the primary uses is to monitor a VPN connection, and to notify me that all servers are still alive and working properly if the VPN connection fails. In this setting the system excels and does a fantastic job with the status reports when a failure does occur.

PRTG NMS easier than you think.

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 01, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
PRTG Network Monitor
6 years of experience
[PRTG] Network Monitor system is used as our primary network monitoring solution for monitoring critical business application servers as well as production servers. I had implemented this solution in PSMCL long time ago when I joined, since [then] I have deployed the solution on multiple times. [It's] very simple to deploy, maintain and manage. The auto discovery function along with sensor recommendation works well with minimal configuration. The best thing is that for smaller environments it has 100 sensors for lifetime. That is one more reason I deploy free version on smaller environment for trial then user decides to keep it or not.
  • Ping Jitter to identify connection problems
  • Traffic monitor for monitoring performance of wan links
  • Snmp sensors
Cons
  • Maps are difficult to make
For medium to small organizations [PRTG Network Monitor is] very well suited. I found it very easy to deploy and manage, updates are easy to perform, its very rare but if for any reason the system gets problematic it could be redeployed in few minutes and old data could be restored very easily. I recommend to deploy free version for evaluation first use it for as long as you want in that way you can get actual feel of product.
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