PRTG Network Monitor Feature Overview

PRTG Network Monitor provides uptime, performance and usage monitoring for LAN, WAN and VPN networks with up to 30,000 sensors. The built-in web server and the AJAX-based web interface make it easy to work with its powerful features like the fully automatic network discovery, device assessment and sensor configuration system, as well as comprehensive alerting, reporting and mapping features.

Let us take you on a tour of selected features of PRTG. You can always look at detailed descriptions of these features by following 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 our experience from creating network monitoring software for over 10 years 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
• HTML-API that enables external programs to have access information from the monitoring database and to manipulate the object database of PRTG.
• Remote Probes provide multi-location monitoring and make it possible to distribute load for CPU-intense monitoring tasks like packet sniffing onto several computers.
  
• 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 40 sensor types for comprehensive monitoring of small, medium and large networks incl.
  • SNMP (supports SNMP V1, V2c and V3)
  • WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation)
  • HTTP based services
  • Various TCP and UDP based services like e.g. PING, Port, SMTP, POP3, FTP…
  • VMware sensors for monitoring virtualized environments
  • SQL Servers
  • File Servers
  • and many more…
• 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 the configuration of devices and sensors as well as the review of monitoring results.

• The integrated web server supports SSL security, multiple logins, user groups and an HTTP-based API for interfacing with other applications
• Monitoring results are viewable in various ways
• Web interface optimized for Microsoft Internet Explorer 7/8, Firefox 2/3, Apple Safari 3.1, and Google Chrome
• iPhone-optimized interface enables users to quickly check the status of their servers and sensors on the road. For more information and screenshots check our CEO's blog...
• Powerful search function
• User administration with integrated rights management
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base

PRTG Network Monitor offers different ways to publish monitoring data to interested and authorized users:

• “Maps” combine monitoring status, graphs and tables in customizable layouts and with customizable backgrounds like network charts
• Read only access for users that can be limited to certain groups and sensors.
• System generated links for each sensor, leading the user directly to the sensor's data/graph.
• Using a PHP script monitoring data can be integrated into external websites via HTTP call.
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base

PRTG Network Monitor offers comprehensive reporting features:

• Reports can be defined for any custom time span
• Reports deliver comprehensive information for each sensor
• Sensors and groups can be added to reports by tags
• Customizable reports
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PRTG Network Monitor assures maximum security in all areas.

• comprehensive user rights management
• SSL encryption supported by webserver and probe-core-communication
• Internal database (no SQL server) prevents SQL injection attacks
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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 and much faster than data storage on SQL servers
  
• Runs on Windows XP, 2003, 2008 and Vista
• Supports all major browsers (IE 7/8, FF 2/3, Safari 3, Chrome) for the web interface
• For more and detailed features please check our knowledge base