Check Network Traffic

PRTG Network Monitor enables you to analyze network traffic. This gives you detailed data that can be used to analyze bandwidth consumption in your network.

How Does PRTG Check Network Traffic?

PRTG's bandwidth controller uses SNMP to check network traffic and many other parameters, such as CPU loads, temperatures, disk usage, etc. Compared to PRTG's other bandwidth monitoring technologies (xFlow/NetFlow, Packet Sniffer and WMI), SNMP network monitoring creates only little CPU and network load. PRTG Network Monitor is also a comprehensive IP traffic monitor for Windows networks. IP monitoring can prevent problems and help to optimize the network in general.

Other Features: Server and Website Monitoring and more

Besides SNMP, packet sniffing and NetFlow monitoring, the internet usage meter PRTG also offers lots of features for enhanced bandwidth latency and remote server monitoring and website testing. One of the most basic and most widely used functions of PRTG Network Monitor is the Internet PING tool. With the help of a PING test, you can check whether a network device such as a server responds, or a website is available. When you conduct an Internet PING test, you send a small data packet to the web server, and if it returns, you know that the website can be reached.

Paessler also offers the web load testing software Web server Stress Tool. It can carry out a variety of different tests that check the web server performance. The performance tests query single URLs of a web server to identify elements that may be responsible for a slow performance. The load test checks your entire website at the normal expected load.

PRTG Network Monitor

Our network monitoring software is available in two editions. For basic network traffic monitoring you can downloaded and use the Freeware edition - free of charge for personal and commercial use. For more advanced needs, licenses for the Commercial Editions start at $400 / €300.

The Monitoring Solution for Networks of all Sizes

PRTG is a professional server monitoring tool that scales up to 30.000 and more sensors and thus allows the monitoring of medium and large networks. A very simple licensing model makes it easy to find the right edition for every purpose. A customer-friendly upgrade path lets PRTG grow with your requirements: Your current license's price will be deducted from the higher license's price when you upgrade to more sensors.