Small Scale Low Budget Monitoring Solution
May 02, 2021

Small Scale Low Budget Monitoring Solution

Rekha Yadav | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG software is being used as the network, servers and appliances fault and performance monitoring, event-based alerting, and network traffic flow analysis. Primarily PRTG was deployed for network monitoring, alerting, and reporting. It provides near to real-time monitoring data and supports the Network team to support their operations SLA.
  • Fault and performance monitoring
  • Alerting and reporting
  • Custom parameters monitoring using custom probes.
  • Support monitoring of large number of devices from same instance.
  • By-default integration with 3rd party tools such as Splunk, Service Now
  • More stability in the product.
  • Probes for cloud services monitoring.
  • Fault and performance monitoring
  • Custom probe creation option
  • Alerting and reporting
  • Low cost and budget tool with full monitoring capability.
  • Less management and efforts required for out of the box probes.
  • Overall, SLAs are improved for networks and other SNMP-based devices such as Appliances.
In my opinion, there are many products in the market that provide vast monitoring options and a lot of customization flexibility and out-of-the-box integration with 3rd party tools such as Service Now, Splunk, and reporting tools. I find PRTG as a good tool for the following reasons:
1. Low cost and budget tool with almost all capability similar to other products.
2. Fewer efforts and skills required comparatively.
3. Out-of-the-box probes availability.
4. Well architected application with scaling options.

Do you think PRTG Network Monitor delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with PRTG Network Monitor's feature set?

Yes

Did PRTG Network Monitor live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of PRTG Network Monitor go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy PRTG Network Monitor again?

Yes

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Although PRTG has the capability to monitor each and every aspect of network devices, servers, and appliances (basic only), still it is being treated as the small scale monitoring solution of lightweight monitoring solution and the reason for that is scaling issues with respect to the stability of the product. Hence, it is recommended to small-scale environment monitoring with default probes options.

PRTG Feature Ratings

Automated network device discovery
10
Network monitoring
10
Baseline threshold calculation
10
Alerts
10
Network capacity planning
3
Packet capture analysis
3
Network mapping
5
Customizable reports
8
Wireless infrastructure monitoring
6
Hardware health monitoring
6