- Prevent data theft and damage with the early detection of security breaches
- Save costs by preventing major breakdowns and reducing downtime
- Make informed decisions for system upgrades and capacity planning
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PRTG system monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
- Boost your system’s efficiency, reliability, and security
- What system monitoring looks like in PRTG
- 5 reasons to choose PRTG as your system monitoring tool
- Monitor your system: FAQ
PRTG makes system monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent system, security, and network issues.
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Boost your system’s efficiency, reliability, and security
Maintaining the health, performance, and security of your devices, networks, and applications is critical to prevent costly downtime, but it doesn’t have to be complex. Watching your entire system is easier than it looks with our Paessler PRTG system monitoring tool.
Troubleshoot issues from the top down
Get a holistic view of your system’s health and performance to identify issues you might not otherwise see when looking at individual devices and networks. Drill down to troubleshoot and solve known issues on specific devices, networks, and other components.
Detect and address security threats quickly
Detect security threats promptly with a systems monitor that watches all aspects of your IT infrastructure. Real-time notifications allow you to respond immediately and shut down the threat, reducing potential security leaks.
Streamline your IT operations
Monitor, manage, plan, and report on the needs of your devices, applications, services, and other components from one main dashboard and user interface. PRTG’s centralized system monitoring simplifies management tasks, improving the efficiency of your IT team.
Scale with your organization
Manage the increasing complexity of a growing organization with comprehensive, always-on system monitoring. Easy-to-understand dashboards give you the information you need for better resource and capacity planning, making informed upgrade investments, and predicting future trends based on historical data.
IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring
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What system monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring your entire IT infrastructure. Show network traffic, resource utilization, system performance & availability, security breaches, and more in real time. Data visualized in easy-to-understand graphic maps & dashboards helps you identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot your system.
Device tree overview of the entire monitoring system in PRTG
Customizable notification templates for individual alerting
Custom PRTG maps & dashboards to create the system overview of your choice
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
5 reasons to choose PRTG as your system monitoring tool
Monitor as little – or as much – as you want to
Our central system monitoring software grows with your organization’s IT needs. Monitor applications, databases, cloud services, network devices, and almost every other aspect of your IT system, large or small.
Easy to set up and configure
PRTG systems monitor is an agentless monitoring solution, so you don’t have to install any agents on your devices to monitor them. Installing PRTG and setting up your monitoring environment is easy, leaving administrators with more time for other tasks.
View your dashboards from anywhere
Remotely monitor your system, network, and security on your mobile phone, desktop, or laptop. Our PRTG apps for iOS and Android are travel-friendly and pocket-sized, available anywhere you can use your phone.
Customize your notifications
Individuals and groups can receive notifications through popular messaging platforms, including email, SMS, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Amazon Simple Notification Service, and push notifications. You can also choose to receive a summary rather than the whole message.
Enjoy a full range of free features
Basic network monitoring has never been more cost-effective. PRTG comes with 250 free sensors that never expire, a full range of features, and access to an unlimited number of sensors for the first 30 days.
Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG system monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with all your IT systems.
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Your system monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
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“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
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PRTG makes system monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent system, security, and network issues.
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Monitor your system: FAQ
1. What is system monitoring?
System monitoring continuously observes and analyzes an IT system’s performance, health, and security. It tracks metrics and events in real time to make sure the system operates efficiently, securely, and within its expected parameters. It includes the monitoring of hardware like routers and switches, hardware parameters such as CPU usage and server memory, network traffic, bandwidth, as well as the performance and availability of applications.
2. What is a monitoring system?
A monitoring system is software that helps sysadmins monitor systems in an IT environment. Monitoring systems come in many degrees of functionality and range from tools that do one thing really well to enterprise-grade solutions with the ability to monitor thousands of devices and applications.
3. How does system monitoring work?
The monitoring system tool communicates with your IT environment via SNMP, WMI, SSH, HTTP, and other protocols. Which protocol is used depends on the tool you choose, your application providers, and the device manufacturer (Cisco, HPE, Dell, etc.).
4. Do I need a system monitoring tool?
Some IT managers adopt a reactive approach and only step in when there’s an issue. This is a risky approach and can lead to lengthy troubleshooting sessions. Other IT managers use a lot of small tools to oversee their infrastructure. Yet, these managers miss out on a unified dashboard that gives you an overview of your entire IT infrastructure. Implementing a monitoring system saves time, reduces stress, and cuts costs.
5. What are the advantages of a monitoring system?
Unlike smaller tools that may or may not communicate with each other, a monitoring system lets you see your entire network from a single computer and a central dashboard. You get immediate notifications when an error occurs so you can fix it quickly. Long-term monitoring also provides the data you need for predictive maintenance and accurate resource planning.
6. What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are thebasic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitorsone measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about5-10 sensors per deviceor one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needsand rely on astrong API:
- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler AG conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey:over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
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More than 500,000
sysadmins love PRTG
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
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Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
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Product overview
PRTG | Network Monitoring Software - Version 24.1.92.1554 (February 14th, 2024) |
Hosting | Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages | English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing | Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring | Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
Supported Vendors & Applications |
