Paessler PRTG Reviews & Product Details - Page 5

Upgrading the software is extremely easy. There is no need to do any command line it is all downloaded and installed locally with the PRTG upgrade wizard. You get a good amount of probes for a great price which really sold us above Solar Winds Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface could be a little better managed. It is basic but takes a minute to get sorted through the information especially if you are network administrator for multiple locations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The basic function of a network monitoring software should be to provide the administrator with the time to perform other useful tasks instead of having to be permanently aware of the infrastructure of all connected systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Although they do not express it explicitly, they have a strong dependence on the Microsoft software house, since it only works under the “Microsoft Windows” operating system (they recommend “Windows Server 2012 R2”; for other editions, install the “.NET framework” package 4.5 ”with its updated security patches). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRTG Network Monitor is a reporting tool which enables Network administrators to keep a closer look on network devices. Device wise network bandwidth, usage protocol stats, availability, uptime and performances are presented as easily readable graphics in PRTG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRTG Network monitor has made a considerable effort to make the representation of distinctive and colorful. Even though this looks attractive at the first glance, they may not be easily understood by the users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRTG is very light, agent less, cross platform support, affordable network monitoring system. Provide very effective network health monitoring and reporting in a single console and flexible pricing plans that suites users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have been using PRTG since 2005 and over all these years, I haven't noticed any thing which compelled me to use any other NMS other than PRTG. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The simplistic design of tree hierarchical structures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Resource Load tends to have a direct correlation on responsiveness. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We use PRTG as a monitoring tool, to observe consumption and latency of our configured links in our edge router, and also use it as internal monitoring and support in the development of graphs and reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It meets all the requested requirements regarding interface monitoring, map creations and reports, however when arriving at a certain amount of sensors, we can not add more sensors, thus forcing the purchase to continue the cadatros and monitoring. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

PRTG gives a clear picture of what is going on in your network to monitor usage, loads and bandwitdh etc. Lots of customization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can take some time getting used to as anything. I do wish there customer support was much more accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The software is very easy to both setup and manage. You can start from a first time setup, and then scanning and importing your environment with default recommended sensors in under an hour, which would provide you with a very good starting point to begin further refinement.

The product is very reliable, and can be setup in an active/passive high availability mode that is included with the base license. Once HA is in place application upgrades are a simple click and the application takes care of the fail-over/take-over process.

The base product covers all of our monitoring needs. From network infrastructure (switches, firewalls, loadbalancers) server infrastructure, and external websites and services the out of the box product should cover the majority of environments. For more advanced needs scripting (Powershell, Batch) can be used to query and output information that can be ingested by PRTG for display.

Remote probes can be used to gather monitoring information from systems and sites that are outside of your network and do not require typical persistent (VPN or other L2/L3 technologies) to monitor remote systems.

Once the product is tuned to your environment knowing when a system or resource is about to have issue and receiving an alert that you can choose to take action on via an action (built into the product) or some human intervention will assist in making your IT group more proactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The web interface can get slow depending on how many and what kind of sensors your are hosting on the root system. Definitely break your sensors out over multiple remote probes to allow the root to store and display your data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

With this software I can see all my network devices, and I have a record from everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

A bit slow when you want to see in a mobile (Android) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

System Administrators live in a world of fixing broken, intermittent, and/or frequently ambiguous problems. Therefore, when there's a system that works flawlessly without needing repeated maintenance, we take notice.

PRTG is the most reliable and low maintenance software we have in the office, and we love it. We lean on PRTG frequently to help us identify and resolve issues on other systems. PRTG makes it extremely easy to do so, and we are continuously grateful to have a network monitor that never creates additional work for us, and only ever makes our jobs easier =]

Functionality wise: Out of the box, PRTG monitors just about everything. We had this watching critical components of over 50 servers within an hour. For those things that PRTG miraculously does not support out of the box, they have an EXCELLENT API where you can create and integrate your own custom sensors (powershell, bat, or exe) with ease. We've used this to watch storage pool health, virtual disk health, even the number of CDs and DVDs in our disk printing robot.

Not only can you use powershell and such for custom sensors, you can even run these scripts and programs as custom "notifications". You set up a custom notification to run in response to a certain event (remote desktop unresponsive on server X), and when that event occurs, PRTG can run your script (restart server X) automatically. We've used this on our failover node to restart dell sonicwall whenever it feels like not working (which is rather frequent).

In short, not only is PRTG a monitoring tool, you can also use it as a self-repair tool for your networks and systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I was to have to name anything I'm not a huge fan of, here's a couple:

- PRTG doesn't use any sort of standard database, to my knowledge. It DOES supply a web API where you can request a lot of data like it, but if you're more of a database guy than web guy, this isn't super ideal.

- PRTG has options to use the built in SMTP client or an SMTP relay. I'm not positive that the built-in client is totally reliable, and it could be challenging to configure relays in a multi-site environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.