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What is PRTG?

PRTG monitors your whole IT infrastructure 24/7 and alerts you to problems before users even notice. Find out more about how we help system administrators work smarter.

PRTG Network Monitor is an all-inclusive Unified Monitoring solution that combines a comprehensive set of monitoring features, an easy-to-use intuitive interface, and a state-of-the-art monitoring engine. It monitors uptime, usage and traffic, allowing you to save costs by avoiding outages, by optimizing your IT infrastructure, by saving time, and by controlling your SLAs.
PRTG gives you complete control over your network, as proven in more than 150000 installations worldwide. The software includes more than 200 pre-built sensors specifically designed for monitoring networks, servers, storage, virtual environments, websites, email-servers, applications, databases, and many others. The sensors are agentless and rely only on standard IT protocols such as SNMP or HTTP. Custom sensors for non-standard devices can be added easily and the software includes an API for integration with 3rd party tools.
PRTG is suitable for networks of any size and in any industry, and it provides vendor-neutral monitoring of your entire IT infrastructure in a single package. PRTG includes the entire monitoring functionality in every license with no add-ons and no hidden costs.



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PRTG currently scores 93/100 (Top 3 in Network Management) in the Network Management category. This is based on user satisfaction (94/100), press buzz (54/100), and other relevant information on PRTG gathered from around the web.

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PRTG Product Overview

  • BANDWIDTH MONITORING - Promptly identify potential bandwidth capacity and overloads. Identify shortages and get alerted before problems occur.

  • HARDWARE MONITORING - Monitor your entire hardware at a glance - Computer, Printer, Servers, Hard Drives, Router, Switches, RAM and all other devices.

  • NETWORK MONITORING - Monitor every aspect of your network, PINGs, traffic, bandwidth and much more at a glance - PRTG alerts you even before errors occur.

  • SNMP MONITORING - Monitor everything in your network via SNMP. Keep an eye on applications & servers using bandwidth, avoid bottlenecks & downtimes.

  • IP MONITORING - PRTG's Auto Discovery Tool identifies and monitors all IP addresses in your network, even remote and on Virtual Machines.

  • DATABASE MONITORING - Monitor every aspect of your databases: availability, downtimes, usage, alerts. Oracle SQL, MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and more.

  • APPLICATION MONITORING - Monitor SQL, Exchange & server software, cloud and virtualized applications and nearly every standard application with PRTG.

  • PING MONITORING - Check the availability of ALL network devices and get a quick an flexible overview and alerts in real-time.

  • LAN MONITORING - PRTG keeps an eye on all pillars of your LAN. Workstations, Router, Switches, Servers and your Bandwidth - Monitored 'All In One'.

  • NETFLOW MONITORING - NetFlow lets you analyze your bandwidth and determine i.e. the amount of traffic caused by IP addresses, protocols, or programs.


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PRTG User Reviews

Average User Rating:
4.68/5 based on 219 user ratings.
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"Efficient resource monitoring with advanced custom sensors"


What do you like about PRTG?

Prtg has a mind blowing graphical user interface which has most of the important feature loaded in a single glance.Dashboards can be easily customized with required maps or other sensor statistics.Also prtg has options to add entire Esxi at a stretch and monitor individual vm's effectively.Installation of prtg requires very less pre-requisites and can be installed and configured in minutes.It has a good tech support team to troubleshoot any configuration issues in PRTG.

What do you dislike about PRTG?

Prtg is designed to have more support towards windows devices,snmp support for some of the Linux based servers showed some instability issues.Also cost is a bit high even compared to its competitors.Prtg has less support for monitoring bare metal servers and KVM's.

What have you been using it for and what problems did PRTG solve?

Prtg was implemented in our organization to monitor critical server resources and also the entire networking backbone with icmp protocol.Also it could solve the important bandwidth issues with property monitoring the interface at regular intervals. Prtg also ensures minimum downtime of critical servers by notifying admins through mails.

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