Application Monitoring Tools
Stay on Top of Your Applications Using PRTG
If you are looking for a software to monitor network usage and performance which includes application monitoring functionality, PRTG is your software of choice.
Benefits of Application Monitoring
- Make sure all business-critical applications are running
- Detect undesired network activity
- Control resource usage
- Improve Network Performance
PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful application monitoring tool. Additionally, the network utility monitors the availability and uptime of servers and other network devices, checks your network load, tracks network traffic, and helps you to troubleshoot all network issues.
How Do the Application Monitoring Tools Work?
The network administrator software uses WMI to monitor Windows processes and services. This way, the monitoring software allows you to see which applications are being used in your network, and how many resources they need. The network monitor applications allow you to configure alarms to warn you if the CPU load for a certain process gets too high. You can also set an alarm to tell you if a certain process is being executed, or on how many servers or computers the program is running. If the program is running as a service, the application monitoring tools can even shut down undesired programs. (The same is possible for processes, however, it is a bit more tricky, as you would need to write a custom script which executes this action).
In addition to monitoring applications, the network software tracks network traffic using SNMP, packet sniffing, and NetFlow / sFlow, checks that your website and servers are running, and can be used as a memory, CPU, and disk space monitor. Thanks to more than 130 supported sensor types, the possibility to create custom sensors, and a flexible alerting system with ten different alarm types, PRTG is a powerful network management application. Moreover, the PRTG network monitor application is easy to use, highly scalable and gives you more value for your money: prices for the commercial licenses start at only $400 / €300.