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Paessler PRTG Overview

What is Paessler PRTG?

Paessler PRTG is a real-time unified infrastructure monitoring solution that enables IT Pros to locate problems throughout their entire network and resolve them before they escalate and become business critical. PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies: SNMP: ready to use and custom options WMI and Windows Performance Counters SSH: for Linux/Unix and MacOS systems Flows and Packet Sniffing HTTP requests REST APIs returning XML or JSON Ping, SQL and many more Over 500,000 sysadmins from SMB's to large enterprises use Paessler PRTG to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable.

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Paessler PRTG is a network management software solution that monitors your network using a range of technologies to assure the availability of network components by measuring traffic and usage.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

One tool, one overview: IT Pros often use a variety of monitoring solutions to manage their network. This is an inefficient approach which costs time, energy and money. PRTG gives sysadmins the ability to monitor their entire infrastructure with one tool. Our dashboard and app provide a comprehensive overview, whenever you want it, wherever you are.

PRTG is lightweight, requires no SQL database and is completely customizable. We also offer a fair and transparent licensing model. Each license comes feature complete. With PRTG Network Monitor you will never need to purchase additional add-ons, features or functionality - you only pay for scale.


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Year Founded
1997
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Nuremberg, Germany
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Servers and Network Performance Monitoring Tool"
Easy to configure sensors, add multiple platforms for monitoring. Handy tool for network and system admins
Darsh V.
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Darsh V.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"It is Pleasure to use Monitoring System"
There are many network monitoring tools like Prtg, but PRTG is more convenient and easy to use interface among them.There are many good features I...
Mohanad M.
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Mohanad M.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"IT monitoring software"
It is one of the best programs for monitoring networks. It is characterized by many features, such as reports, a dashboard, simple sensors, program...
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Paessler PRTG Media

Paessler PRTG Demo - Device Tree
Status overview of all devices and applications
Paessler PRTG Demo - New Sensor
Creating a new sensor
Paessler PRTG Demo - Maps
Maps Dashboard
Paessler PRTG Demo - Maps
Maps Dashboard
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Zafar Javed S.
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Network Operations Center Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Best network monitoring tool in terms of availability perspective. It's netflow sensor also gives a lot of information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

It works flawlessly with cisco products. Needs a lot of configurations for adding firewall and non-cisco devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

24x7 monitoring and alerting of critical devices. The moment a link or device is down it sends an alert.

Also the netflow sensor provides great information like top source and destination which helps me to take action accordingly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

PRTG Network Monitor is an excellent and highly customizable tool for monitoring network resources. It allows us to get a better insight into the status of network devices across enterprises. As a result, we can now act proactively and take corrective measures even before problems get reported by the users. Maps can be customizable, and with some imagination, this tool can provide an awe-inspiring representation of the network and all monitored devices. It supports SNMP and variety of custom censors, as well as API integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Map creation editor is lacking undo button. In addition, it is also a bit buggy when trying to deploy specific HTML5 code inside the sensor configuration. Sometimes it also does not render or accept custom inserted code. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are running PRTG Network monitor spread across several big HD Tv displays connecting to PRTG server in our Network Operations Center. We rotate PRTG maps and have full network monitoring capabilities. We can identify specific problems even before our users report them. As a result, we can act proactively and take corrective measures before they become a problem. It helps us better monitor our network utilization and even certain custom monitors within specific applications we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ramu S.
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Junior Network Administrator
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Most accurate tool for network monitoring.

The ping sensor is the best sensor for connectivity checks.

Bandwidth Monitor, Website Monitoring, Uptime Monitoring, Network Traffic Analyzer and the Ping Monitoring tools are awesome. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Network Map drawings can be done using PRTG, If the sensors don't work properly, the entire network goes down.

Complete control is over the sensors involved in this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Paessler PRTG:

Suggesting purchasing a licensed version for proper functioning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Outages and hardware problems can be resolved using PRTG Network Monitor.

Cpu utilization, Maps making, temperature, bandwidth monitoring, email server monitoring etc are other benefits.

Identify network and bandwidth usage trends, monitor the availability and uptime of network devices, and check performance metrics such as CPU and RAM usage of servers and computers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Out-of-the-box alerts and reporte that are highly relevant to the performance of the infrastructure.

Offers performance thresholds that spot evolving problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Any issue we faced was quickly resolved by the support team and at times we also turn to the hepful online tutorials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gives a hop-by-hop analysis of critical paths.

Retrieves performance metrics for autonomous access points.

Operating system patching for Windows and MacOS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dejan N.
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System Engineer
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Local network and server monitoring (ping, disk, CPU usage, RAM, latency) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Complicated e-mail alert setting and not giving exact log where is the problem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alerting about any problem on the network device or in the server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

José F.
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IM Manager - Central Amer and Caribbean en Wärtsilä
Oil & Energy
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

The dashboard, the variety of connectors and the way to monitor, the easy way to configure, and the ease of monitoring the network out of your reach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

So far nothing to change, for now, it is a complete tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

I searched for a long time for such a complete tool, with ease of configuration and a great way to monitor my networks and active equipment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Izak V.
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

PTRG offers a full scope of network monitoring tools with advanced futures. You can start to monitor your network with ease. PRTG network monitor is easy to use even for someone with little experience in network monitoring. There is a free version available for small networks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

There is not much that I dislike. The reporting is not so easy to set up. I don't always get it right the first time. Of all the network monitor tools that I tested or used PRTG had the least problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

I monitor a lot of Cisco ASA and VPN's and since using PRTG I have complete visibility of the network. Now I don't miss any alerts I know that the network has a problem before I get alerted by the end-users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

The categories for alerts to separate the urgency of the issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

The probes for each alert are very inconsistent. They very often have to be restarted or even reinstalled and report false outages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

This is our 24/7 network monitoring tool for our clients. This is what we utilize for our on-call to know when there is something down. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Troy S.
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Director of Education Technology
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

I tend to be an information junkie when it comes to technology and this suite definitely delivers. I am in love with the level of information I can see and I am still learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

The learning curve to setup some of the features is not super intiuative. Something like setting up a custom map takes more time than I would like to make it pretty but it does work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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You will need to spend some time not just in initial setup, but tracking down what is one your network and entering all the relevant information or selecting the right sensors to deploy. It is not a set it and forget it system, but it is well worth the time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

The organization did not previously have a good monitoring system in place. This implementation filled that gap so accurate information about what is going on and when is now collected and taken action on. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sachin V.
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Network Administrator
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Userfriendly dashboard,Easy to configure. High quality sensor reporting, Can monitor almost all server platforms, Networking devices, an awesome product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Nothing much to say,almost perfect. The only suggestion is to make it budget-friendly for medium-level customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Paessler PRTG:

HIghly professional and feature-oriented Product, outclasses all competitors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Notifications and mail alerts for minute attributes in all devices rescue us from major hardware or network issues and reduce downtime to a large extent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.