PRTG Network Monitor Freeware
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Great monitor for the price
What do you like best about the product?
Setting up sensors to monitor is incredibly easy. It has great alert and reporting features. It is also easy to implement the monitoring into a webpage for displaying other important information. It is easy to set up, and is very well priced.
What do you dislike about the product?
If you have large amount of sensors, it can be a pain to navigate the pages without just searching for them. It also can be a bit of a pain to pickup setting everything up when first starting out.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network monitoring (routers/switches), server monitoring (free space, CPU load, ect). It also allows for the use of scripts to monitor, so you can monitor the current amount of calls being placed with Skype for Business.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
This is a great monitor for the price. It can monitor almost anything on your network.
Excellent monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
PRTG is a very powerful and dependable monitoring tool. It is our main monitoring solution and we use over 1000 sensors with the product. It is very cost effective for the amount of functionality you get from it and can monitor a vast range of technologies with more and more being added with each update. Just recently Docker monitoring has been added which is fantastic.
They also have a free 100-sensor SKU for homelab use and even small business. I think this is a great offer!
They also have a free 100-sensor SKU for homelab use and even small business. I think this is a great offer!
What do you dislike about the product?
As mentioned in another review, you only get live, 2 day or 30 day historical graphs. For most use cases this is perfectly fine, but it would be nice to see a customization tab that you can put 7 days in to, or even a fortnight. Learning the advanced parts of the tool can be a bit hard, such as root sensors and dependency chains, but once they are set up it makes alerting a lot more reliable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We use PRTG to monitor our server hardware, ethernet networks, Fibre Channel networks, vSphere environment, Windows machines and many more. It proactively helps us monitor our environment - providing we set up sensors properly of course.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If PRTG doesn't have the sensor you need, contact them and they will most likely have it in their roadmap. It is very easy to install however it only runs on Windows. This may be a negative for some people.
Admin of PRTG
What do you like best about the product?
Very easy to setup, you can have this setup and running in less then 10 minutes. Runs on Windows and is all wizard driven. Powerful built in pre-set monitoring probes make monitoring the network, windows and linux easy. It has easy to manage alert thresholds and a map like dashboard. Upgrading is also very easy and can be down in a few minutes. You can do a good bit of customizing to it. The monitoring is agentless and uses SNMP, powershell or the like. Has a desktop agent to alert you when things go down
What do you dislike about the product?
Historical trends only default to Live, 2 days or 30 days. Would like to see 7 days or something. Setting up alert thresholds can be tedious. Web interface can be slow at times. Desktop agent does not auto upgrade with the software on server. Quickly moving between monitors can be a pain as there is no fast switch between looking at a server CPU and that same servers memory usage
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring and insight
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great easy to use software. Cannot beat it for the price
Most versatile network monitor
What do you like best about the product?
This software has unlimited ways of customising every singe sensor and scanner. You can present every item in the way to suit you the most. Furthermore you can get the notification based per sensor or group or common item depending on spikes, patterns, unusual traffics and more.
What do you dislike about the product?
Full time job to manage it. Left on auto-discovery will keep adding deleted sensors each time the scan goes and there is no way to block it. Can be tricky in VMWare enviroment where you VMotion often, each time you do you loose historic data as it doesn't "reconnect" to previous storage guid.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps detect loops, spikes, broadcasts.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you have lots of storage and want to be able to be notified on anything that's going on on the network.
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