PRTG Manual: List of Sensors by Performance Impact
Here you can find a list of sensors sorted by their performance impact.
You can also see a sensor's performance impact in the Add Sensor dialog or on a sensor's Overview tab.
A sensor can have one of the following types of performance impact:
- Very Low Performance Impact
- Low Performance Impact
- Medium Performance Impact
- High Performance Impact
- Very High Performance Impact
Sensor |
What It Monitors |
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Health of the cluster |
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Availability of several SaaS providers |
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Status of the PRTG core server |
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Status of the PRTG core server |
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Health of an enclosure on a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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File system on a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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Storage capacity of a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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LUN on a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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Storage pool on a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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VMware datastore on a Dell EMC storage system via the REST API |
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Capacity of a CPG on an HPE 3PAR storage system |
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A drive enclosure of an HPE 3PAR storage system |
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Capacity of a virtual volume on an HPE 3PAR storage system |
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Metrics of an Azure SQL Database (single database or elastic pool) in a Microsoft Azure subscription |
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Storage account in a Microsoft Azure subscription |
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Cost in a Microsoft Azure subscription |
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Monitors the status of a virtual machine in a Microsoft Azure subscription. |
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Up to five values returned by a Modbus RTU server |
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Up to five values returned by a Modbus TCP server |
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Status of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage aggregate accessing the API via SOAP |
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Input and output operations of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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Logical interfaces of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP cluster accessing the API via SOAP |
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LUN of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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NIC of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP cluster accessing the API via SOAP |
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Disks of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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SnapMirror relationships of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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Health of a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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Volumes on a NetApp cDOT or ONTAP storage system accessing the API via SOAP |
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Certificate of an OPC UA server |
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Server status, uptime, and diagnostic information of an OPC UA server |
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Ping time and packet loss |
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Time until a request to a port is accepted |
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Network service by connecting to various TCP/IP ports |
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Status of the probe |
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The power supply of a Redfish-capable server |
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System health of a Redfish-capable server |
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Performance counters on an APC UPS device via SNMP |
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VPN connections on a Cisco ASA via SNMP |
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Network parameters using Cisco's CBQoS via SNMP |
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Health status of a Cisco UCS blade server via SNMP |
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Health status of the chassis of a Cisco UCS device via SNMP |
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Single parameter that is returned by a specific OID via SNMP |
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String returned by a specific OID via SNMP |
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String returned by a specific OID via SNMP directly mapped to a sensor status |
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Performance counters on a Dell hardware device via SNMP |
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System health of a Dell PowerEdge server via SNMP |
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Status of a hardware component of a server via SNMP |
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Performance counters on an HP LaserJet hardware device via SNMP |
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Logical disk in an HPE server via SNMP |
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Memory controller in an HPE server via SNMP |
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Logical disk in an IBM server via SNMP |
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Physical disk in an IBM server via SNMP |
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Memory modules in an IBM server via SNMP |
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Data from a Jacarta interSeptor Pro environmental monitoring system via SNMP |
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Physical disk in a LenovoEMC NAS via SNMP |
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System health of a LenovoEMC NAS via SNMP |
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Device via SNMP |
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System load average of a Linux/Unix system via SNMP |
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Memory usage of a Linux/Unix system via SNMP |
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IOPS on a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Status of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Performance counters for environmental measurements on Poseidon hardware via SNMP |
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Various types of printers via SNMP |
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Logical disk in a QNAP NAS via SNMP |
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Physical disk in a QNAP NAS via SNMP |
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Overall status of a Rittal CMC III processing unit and the hardware status of every attached external sensor via SNMP |
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Traffic on a device using RMON via SNMP |
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Health values of a SonicWall NSA via SNMP |
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Traffic of an IPsec VPN on a SonicWall NSA via SNMP |
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Logical disk in a Synology NAS via SNMP |
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Physical disk in a Synology NAS via SNMP |
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System health of a Synology NAS via SNMP |
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Uptime of a device via SNMP |
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Traffic on a device via SNMP |
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Windows service via SNMP |
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Certificate of an SSL/TLS connection |
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SSL/TLS connectivity to the port of a device |
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Status of the probe system |
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Status of all backup job runs on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager in the last 24 hours |
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Status of a specific backup job that runs on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager |
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Disk usage of a VMware datastore via SOAP |
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Availability of global Zoom services |
Sensor |
What It Monitors |
|---|---|
Status of an AWS alarm by reading its data from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API |
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Cost of an AWS account by reading its data from the AWS Cost Explorer API |
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Performance of an EBS volume by reading its data from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API |
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Performance of an Amazon EC2 instance by reading its data from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API |
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Performance of an ELB load balancer by reading its data from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API |
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System health of a Beckhoff IPC via OPC UA |
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VoIP network parameters using IP SLAs from Cisco via SNMP |
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Response time and response code of the target server via HTTP |
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Response time and response code of the target server via HTTP |
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Response time of the target server via TCP ping |
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Response time of the target server via TCP ping |
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DHCP server |
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Status of a Docker container |
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Dropbox account via the Dropbox API and OAuth2 |
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Value returned by the executable file or script (in one channel only) and the execution time |
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Several metrics from a Google Analytics account using the Google API and OAuth2 |
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Google Drive account via the Google API and OAuth2 |
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Loading time of a web page or element |
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Performance statistics of an Apache web server using mod_status over HTTP |
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Activity of an Apache web server using mod_status over HTTP |
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Messages received from IoT-capable devices that are pushed via an HTTPS request to PRTG |
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Received messages that are pushed via an HTTP request to PRTG |
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Numeric values from received messages that are pushed via an HTTP request to PRTG |
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Data from received messages that are pushed via an HTTP request to PRTG |
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Overall status of all services of a Microsoft 365 subscription |
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Detailed status of all services of a Microsoft 365 subscription |
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Microsoft OneDrive Personal account via the OneDrive API and OAuth2 |
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Availability of an MQTT broker (server) |
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Up to ten numeric values returned by specific OPC UA node IDs |
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Configured set of Windows performance counters |
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Microsoft IIS application pool using Windows performance counters |
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Email server via POP3 |
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Remote desktop services (RDP, Terminal Services Client) |
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Connectivity for a SIP server using SIP options "Ping" |
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Mail server via SMTP |
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System health of a Buffalo TeraStation NAS via SNMP |
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ADSL statistics of a Cisco router |
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Traffic of an IPsec VPN connection on a Cisco ASA |
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Account connections to a VPN on a Cisco ASA via SNMP |
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System health of a Cisco device via SNMP |
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System load via SNMP |
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Numeric values returned for OIDs via SNMP |
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Entries from a table that is provided via SNMP |
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Volume of a Dell EqualLogic storage system via SNMP |
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Health of an array member of an EqualLogic storage system via SNMP |
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Disk in a Dell EqualLogic storage system via SNMP |
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Physical disk in a Dell PowerEdge server via SNMP |
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Free disk space on a logical disk via SNMP |
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Status of a Fujitsu PRIMERGY server via the iRMC and SNMP |
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Status of an HPE BladeSystem via SNMP |
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System health of an HPE BladeSystem device via SNMP |
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Network interface in an HPE server via SNMP |
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Physical disk in an HPE server via SNMP |
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System health of an HPE ProLiant server via SNMP |
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System health of an IBM device via SNMP |
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System health of a Juniper NetScreen device via SNMP |
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Free space on disks of a Linux/Unix system via SNMP |
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I/O on disks of a Linux/Unix system via SNMP |
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Memory usage of a system via SNMP |
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Free space on disks of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Power supply and cooling of an enclosure that is part of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Licenses for the services of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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IOPS on a logical unit of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Network card of a NetApp storage system via SNMP |
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Status and performance of a Nutanix cluster via SNMP |
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Nutanix hypervisor via SNMP |
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System health of a QNAP NAS via SNMP |
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SNTP server |
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UTC time of a target device via WMI |
Sensor |
What It Monitors |
|---|---|
Status of an Amazon CloudWatch alarm |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service EBS |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service EC2 |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service ElastiCache |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service ELB |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service RDS |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service SNS |
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Performance of the Amazon Cloud service SQS |
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Summarized status of entire business processes while monitoring several process components |
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DNS server, resolves domain name records, and compares them to a filter |
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Values returned by the executable file or script in multiple channels |
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File servers using FTP and FTPS |
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Availability of HL7 interfaces |
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Source code of a web page using HTTP |
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Numeric value returned by an HTTP request |
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Values returned by the web server in multiple channels |
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Microsoft Hyper-V cluster shared volume via PowerShell |
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Email server via IMAP |
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Status of a system via IPMI |
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Directory services via LDAP |
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Received messages and payload from an MQTT topic |
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Up to five numeric values from the received JSON data |
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Statistical jitter value and execution time |
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Values returned by the Python script in multiple channels |
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Values returned by a REST API in multiple channels |
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FTP servers of a Linux/Unix system using the SSH File Transfer Protocol (FTP over SSH) |
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Free disk space of a share (Windows/Samba) using SMB |
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Physical disk of a Cisco UCS device via SNMP |
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System health of a Cisco UCS device via SNMP |
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State and overall number of successful or failed channel calls |
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Free space on disks of a Linux/Unix system via SSH |
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Free index nodes on disks of Linux/Unix and macOS systems via SSH |
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Load average of a Linux/Unix system via SSH |
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Memory usage of a Linux/Unix system via SSH |
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Logical disk on a SAN via SSH |
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Physical disk on a SAN via SSH |
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System health of a SAN via SSH |
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TFTP server to check if a certain file is available for download |
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Hardware status of a VMware host server via SOAP |
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Microsoft IIS server via WMI |
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Health of IDE disk drives on the target system via S.M.A.R.T. |
Sensor |
What It Monitors |
|---|---|
Windows DC for replication errors |
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Database via an ADO connection |
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Xen host server via HTTP |
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VM on a Citrix XenServer via HTTP |
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Virtual disk on a Dell PowerVault MD3000i, MD3420, MD3620i, MD3000f, MD3620f, or MD3820i |
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Physical disk on a Dell PowerVault MD3000i, MD3420, MD3620i, MD3000f, or MD3620f |
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Bandwidth usage of a C-STORE request to a DICOM-capable device |
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Availability of DICOM-capable systems and devices by sending C-ECHO requests to the target system |
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C-FIND capability of DICOM-capable systems and devices |
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HPE Storage EVA via the sssu.exe from HPE P6000 Command View Software |
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Backups of an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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Database information of an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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DAG status of a database on an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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Number of items in the outgoing mail queue of an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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Mailboxes of an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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Public folders and subfolders of an Exchange server via Remote PowerShell |
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Changes to file content and file time stamp |
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Text files (for example, log files) for certain strings |
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Folder via SMB |
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Number of files available in the directory listing |
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Interactive website by performing a transaction using a set of HTTP URLs |
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.xml file from a specified URL |
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Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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VM running on a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Virtual network adapters running on a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Virtual storage device running on a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows Performance Counters |
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Listing of an IP address on specific blacklist servers |
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Database on a Microsoft SQL server |
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Database on a MySQL server |
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Database on an Oracle server |
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Tablespace on an Oracle server |
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Database on a PostgreSQL server |
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Parameters regarding the quality of a network connection between two probes |
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Parameters regarding the quality of a network connection between a probe and a target device at the endpoint of the connection |
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RADIUS server according to RFC 2865 |
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Time it takes for an email to reach an IMAP mailbox after being sent via SMTP |
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Time it takes for an email to reach a POP3 mailbox after being sent via SMTP |
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Connectivity between a system running Linux/macOS X and another device via ICMP echo requests and SSH |
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SAN enclosure via SSH |
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Number of hops needed from the probe system that the sensor runs on to the IP Address/DNS Name defined in the sensor's parent device |
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Hardware information of an ESXi server via WBEM |
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CPU load on a computer via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Number of received emails for a Microsoft IIS 6.0 SMTP service (Exchange 2003) via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Number of sent emails for a Microsoft IIS 6.0 SMTP service (Exchange 2003) via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Number of messages in a message queue of the parent device |
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Bandwidth usage and traffic of a network interface via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Windows pagefile usage via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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I/O parameters of a hard disk on a Windows system via WMI |
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Print queue of the parent device |
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Windows process via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Uptime of a Windows system via WMI or Windows performance counters |
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Available capacity and the state of connected batteries of a Windows-based device via WMI |
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Retrieved value of a custom query via WMI |
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Retrieved string value in the sensor message and the response time |
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Health of a physical disk on a Windows system via WMI |
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later via WMI |
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Length of transport queues of a Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or later via WMI |
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File via WMI |
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Free disk space of one or more drives via WMI |
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Disk usage of a logical disk or mount point on a Windows system via WMI |
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Available (free) system memory on Windows systems via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Performance of a Microsoft SQL Server via WMI |
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Ping time from the remote device to the target device that is being pinged via WMI |
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Security status of a Windows client computer via WMI |
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Windows service via WMI |
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Shared resource on a Windows system via WMI |
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Microsoft SharePoint server via WMI |
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Storage pool via WMI |
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Number of sessions on a Windows Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services) server via WMI |
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Number of sessions on a Windows Terminal Services (Remote Desktop Services) server via WMI |
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Vital system parameters (CPU, thread, memory, network, pagefile) via WMI |
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Free disk space on a drive, logical volume, or mount point via WMI |
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Various statistics on a WSUS server via WMI |
Sensor |
What It Monitors |
|---|---|
Event Log entries using the Windows API |
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Full download time of a web page including assets such as images |
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Traffic data from an IPFIX-compatible device |
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Traffic data from an IPFIX-compatible device |
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Traffic data from a jFlow v5 compatible device |
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Traffic data from a jFlow v5 compatible device |
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Traffic data from a NetFlow v5 compatible device |
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Traffic data from a NetFlow v5 compatible device |
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Traffic data from a NetFlow v9 compatible device |
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Traffic data from a NetFlow v9 compatible device |
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Headers of data packets that pass a local network card |
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Headers of data packets that pass a local network card |
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Entire business processes that involve several components |
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Traffic data from an sFlow v5 compatible device |
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Traffic data from an sFlow v5 compatible device |
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SNMP traps |
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Value returned by the executable file or script (in one channel only) and the execution time |
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Values returned by the script in multiple channels and the execution time |
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Syslog messages |
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VMware host server via SOAP |
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VM on a VMware host server via SOAP |
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Status of Windows updates on a computer, either from Microsoft or from the local WSUS server |
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Specific Windows logfile via WMI |
- Differences between PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Hosted Monitor
- Glossary
- Legal Notices
- List of Abbreviations
- List of Available Sensor Types
- List of Default Ports
- List of Icons
- List of New Sensors
- List of Notification Triggers and Supported Sensors
- List of Placeholders for Notifications
- List of Sensors by Performance Impact
- List of Sensors in the Beta Status
- List of Sensors with IPv4 Support Only
- List of Sensors with Meta-Scan Feature
- List of Sensors without Device Template Capability
- List of Standard Lookup Files
- List of Supported AWS Regions and Their Codes
- Support and Troubleshooting
