Packet Loss Monitoring
Improve and Troubleshoot VoIP Connections
Packet Loss Monitoring is an important part of network monitoring, especially if you are using VoIP or other streaming technologies, which are very sensitive to lost or reordered packets.
How Can You Monitor Packet Loss Using PRTG?
The QoS Monitor
With its QoS and IP-SLA sensor types, PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful VoIP monitoring software. The built-in QoS monitoring sensor measures metrics such as packet delay, jitter, packet loss, and network latency.
Monitor Packet Loss Using IP-SLA
For IP-SLA enabled Cisco devices, packet loss monitoring is also possible using the IP-SLA sensor. It reads preaggregated monitoring data, including duplicate, lost and delayed packets, round trip time, MOS, ICPIF, etc., from Cisco devices and displays these parameters in easy-to-read graphs and tables.
The PRTG VoIP monitoring tools also allow you to configure alarms, which will notify you of packet loss problems or other issues affecting VoIP quality. You can determine how much packet delay, loss, jitter, etc., is acceptable for you, and take effective steps to improve the quality of your VoIP connections when this threshold has been reached.
PRTG Network Monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is not only the ideal tool to monitor packet loss, but a comprehensive network management and monitoring solution, which monitors bandwidth usage, availability of network devices, resource consumption, etc. Supported technologies are SNMP network monitoring, packet sniffing and NetFlow.