PRTG Network Monitor Feature Overview

Completely rewritten from the ground up PRTG Network Monitor runs with 10,000s of sensors, offers a highly interactive web interface, automatic network discovery, device assessment and sensor configuration - and this is only a short abstract of the long list of new and powerful features.

On this page you find some of the most important and interesting features. For more and detailed features see the link at the end of each paragraph.

PRTG Network Monitor is optimized for easy installation, configuration and use. It allows you to set up your complete network monitoring scenario within minutes.

• Automatic Network discovery
• Preconfigured device templates with recommended sets of sensors for various devices
• Highly interactive and customizable Interface for optimized usability
• Configuration is arranged in a tree-like hierarchy with inheritance of settings
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base

Using all our experience from PRTG Traffic Grapher and IPCheck Server Monitor we wrote PRTG Network Monitor new from the scratch setting clear focuses on performance and user friendliness.

• Modern, powerful software engine
• Scales up to several 10,000 sensors for one installation
• Allows load distribution using remote probes for CPU-intense monitoring like e.g. packet sniffing
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base

PRTG Network Monitor offers a broad range of monitoring features covering bandwidth and network usage monitoring as well as uptime monitoring.

• Bandwidth monitoring using SNMP, NetFlow and Packet Sniffing
• More than 35 sensor types for comprehensive monitoring of small, medium and large networks incl. WMI, PING, HTTP, SNMP, SMTP, POP3, FTP…
• “Smart” sensors that e.g. automatically discover quad-core CPUs and and monitor them individually as well as the total CPU load
• Various means of alerting and notifications (email, SMS, pager message, HTTP request, syslog, etc.)
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base

PRTG Network Monitor comes with a state-of-the-art, AJAX-based web interface for configuration of devices and sensors as well as review of monitoring results.

• The integrated Webserver supports SSL security, multiple logins, user groups and an HTTP-based API for interfacing with other applications
• Monitoring results are viewable in various perspectives
• User can create “Maps” which bring together monitoring status, graphs and tables in customizable layouts and with customizable backgrounds like network charts

PRTG Network Monitor is a Windows based Network Monitoring Solution optimized for performance and user friendliness that offers high flexibility in many areas.

• All data is stored in Paessler's own powerful data storage system, highly optimized for monitoring data
• Runs on Windows 2000, XP, 2003, 2008 and Vista, as well as on Linux/Wine
• Internet Explorer 7.x or Firefox 2.x for the web interface
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base