PRTG Manual: Common SaaS Sensor
The Common SaaS sensor monitors the availability of several software as a service (SaaS) providers.
With this sensor, you can get alarms if your cloud services are not reachable.
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
- Dutch: Algemene SaaS
- French: SaaS courants
- German: Verbreitete SaaS-Dienste
- Japanese: Common SaaS
- Portuguese: SaaS Comuns
- Russian: Общий для SaaS
- Simplified Chinese: 常用 SaaS
- Spanish: SaaS común
- The probe system must have access to the internet.
- This sensor supports IPv6.
- This sensor has a very low performance impact.
- This sensor has predefined limits for several metrics.
- This sensor has a fixed scanning interval of 15 minutes. You cannot change it.
- PRTG automatically creates this sensor on every probe device. If the probe system has no connection to the internet, manually pause or delete this sensor to avoid error messages.
- This sensor inherits proxy settings for HTTP sensors from the parent device.
Setting |
Description |
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Sensor Name |
Enter a name to identify the sensor. By default, PRTG shows this name in the device tree, as well as in alarms, logs, notifications, reports, maps, libraries, and tickets.
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Parent Tags |
The tags that the sensor inherits from its parent device, parent group, and parent probe.
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Tags |
Enter one or more tags. Confirm each tag with the Spacebar key, a comma, or the Enter key. You can use tags to group objects and use tag-filtered views later on. Tags are not case-sensitive. Tags are automatically inherited.
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
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Priority |
Select a priority for the sensor. This setting determines the position of the sensor in lists. The highest priority is at the top of a list. Choose from the lowest priority ( |
Setting |
Description |
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Result Handling |
Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:
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Setting |
Description |
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Primary Channel |
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, the last value of the primary channel is always displayed below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.
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Graph Type |
Define how different channels are shown for this sensor:
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Stack Unit |
This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above. Select a unit from the list. All channels with this unit are stacked on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so. |
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.
Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window
You cannot interrupt the inheritance for schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. The corresponding settings from the parent objects are always active. However, you can define additional schedules, dependencies, and maintenance windows. They are active at the same time as the parent objects' settings.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Schedules, Dependencies, and Maintenance Window.
For more information, see section Root Group Settings, section Access Rights.
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel |
Description |
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Available Services |
The available services (%)
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Bing |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Downtime |
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status |
Dropbox |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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GitHub |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Google Apps |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Office 365 |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Salesforce |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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Youtube |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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