PRTG Network Monitor Freeware
Paessler AG | PRTG 24.2.96.1375Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base 1809 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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PRTG - Fantastic Dashboarding and Monitoring Software on a Budget
What do you like best about the product?
The extensibility and massive number of systems that PRTG can monitor is fantastic. If it's not natively built in, which I've found few that are not, you can easily import MIBs or write a PowerShell script to pull the data you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing structure is out of whack. You buy in increments, not packs, and the licenses are based on nodes. You start with 500 nodes monitored, and can double it to 1000 for a fairly affordable cost. If you need 1001 though, you can't just buy another 10 or even 500, you have to upgrade to the 2500 node license at 3x the cost. No other options. This makes PRTG suitable for small installations, but it doesn't scale with a small budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PRTG provides a quick and easy way to get good system monitoring and custom dashboards in place. We've used it to get some great visibility and notification of when systems go down. It's also a cost effective way to implement dashboarding, and doesn't require significant IT resources to implement, manage, or customize.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great product for under 1000 items monitored (doesn't take many 48-port switches to get to 1000, so it's really not that much. Over 1000 though, be prepared for sticker shock.
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It has been a fantastic monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
Instant alert for any abnormality with your owned servers
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything that I dislike about prtg
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IT business. It has been helping out to quickly act on issues.
Free Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
100 sensors for free! Perfect for SMBs. Easily monitor critical devices and services and get email, text, and push notifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not exactly intuitive but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to manage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to quickly respond to outages before our associates notice there's trouble.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's free, give it a try!
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.
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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