Monitoring the Network

PRTG Makes Monitoring the Network Easy

Benefits of Network Monitoring

Monitoring the network is paramount for the effective management of an organization's IT-infrastructure. Monitoring software such as PRTG Network Monitor gives you valuable insight into bandwidth performance, network usage, and server load. It thus helps to control service level agreements, improve the quality of network connections, and to make informed decisions about hardware and bandwidth purchases.

How does PRTG Monitor the Network?

PRTG uses WMI and SNMP for Windows monitoring, showing you vital parameters such as CPU load, free disk space, memory usage, etc. Bandwidth is monitored using. SNMP, packet sniffing, and NetFlow. Moreover, more than 130 different sensor types enable you to monitor anything from application usage to VoIP quality, from Amazon cloudwatch servers to Vmware...

PRTG shows you historic usage trends as well as real time data, enabling you both to carefully plan inversion and to react quickly to network issues. If a problem occurs or if PRTG spots an unusual behavior, the application monitoring tools will notify you at once. The monitoring data is shown in easy-to-read graphs and tables, and exhaustive reports can be generated with just a few mouse clicks. PRTG can also be used as a network mapping software: the map feature lets you create a detailed map of your network, helping you to visualize your monitoring environment. Monitoring the network has never been easier!

A recent network monitoring review in the Network Computing magazine confirmed that was PRTG was "the most comprehensively equipped monitoring package and also the simplest to use".