Monitor Windows Service Information

PRTG Network Monitor is Paessler's powerful network monitoring solution. It is the ideal software to monitor network traffic and usage, check the availability and uptime of network devices, and to monitor Windows services and processes.

Why Should Windows Services be Monitored?

Windows services are responsible for many tasks, from authenticating network users to managing printers, audio files, or automatic updates. If an important service fails, this can affect the performance of the whole network.

How Does PRTG Monitor Windows Services?

Using WMI monitoring, the PRTG monitoring tools can check whether a service is running. Should it not be running, PRTG can restart it, or optionally send a notification to a network administrator.

PRTG Network Monitor

PRTG enables you to monitor Windows service information and much more: WMI and SNMP also let you check important system parameters such as memory or CPU load, monitor file changes, and track available disk space.

SNMP, packet sniffing and NetFlow / sFlow / jFlow allow you to monitor bandwidth usage broken down by port, protocol, or IP address.

A range of specialized sensors make PRTG the ideal tool for file, web, and mail server monitoring. Thanks to PRTG's SNMP Trap and syslog Receiver sensors, the software can also be used for event monitoring.

In addition to status monitoring (e.g. monitoring whether a Windows service is running or not), the server monitoring software also supports threshold monitoring: its flexible alerting system lets you configure customized thresholds which will trigger notifications if the threshold is being crossed (e.g. more than 75% CPU load). This helps you to anticipate possible network issues and to keep downtimes and outages to a minimum.

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PRTG Network Monitor is available in two editions. To monitor Windows service information or bandwidth usage for small networks, the Freeware Edition may be downloaded and used for personal and commercial use completely free of charge. For more advanced needs, licenses for the Commercial Editions start at $400 / €300.