Easily maintain optimal hard disk performance
- Monitor all your network's hard drives 24/7, from one dashboard
- Get alerted before you run out of hard disk storage
- Compatible with Windows, Linux, and Unix systems
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PRTG hard disk monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes hard disk monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent hard disk storage or performance issues.
Nobody thinks about hard disks … until they're full
Is there anything more frustrating than thinking you've saved a document, only for your changes to disappear?
Or waiting patiently for a critical update that aborts at the last minute?
Hard disk storage is important for all sorts of processes across your organization. But when you've got a million and one things to do, monitoring it can easily slip your mind.
With Paessler PRTG, system memory is one less thing on your plate.
Running unobtrusively in the background, PRTG regulates available hard disk space and alerts you when it's low, giving you the peace of mind that you won't get caught out and hard disk performance is always optimized.
4 compelling reasons to choose PRTG as your hard disk monitoring tool
Plug-and-play setup
PRTG automatically recognizes all existing hard drives, statuses, and free disk space. There's no need to fiddle about with system settings or hardware detection tools.
Set it and forget about it
Set warning and error thresholds and get on with more important jobs. PRTG alerts you when disk space of any storage device goes below the defined value, so you can act before it's too late.
Track hard disk health
Quickly identify system issues or underperforming hardware, and prevent errors, system failures, and other costly technical problems. Even network file systems get checked.
Start monitoring your hard disks with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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What hard disk monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring physical drives. Show hard disk space and performance in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot storage and performance issues.
NetApp Physical Disk v2 sensor
Complete monitoring overview in device tree format in PRTG
SNMP Dell PowerEdge Physical Disk sensor
How monitoring drives with PRTG works
How PRTG defines sensors
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, e.g. the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, the free space of a disk drive. On average you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG uses sophisticated, preconfigured sensors to show available disk space on physical drives, web servers, file servers, applications, and other servers, including SMB network file systems.
It also monitors hard disk health and performance, alerting you when there's a risk of errors. And it can even check if a specific file exists on your network, and log modifications to files you've flagged.
Each sensor operates round the clock, tracking values across your whole network, including:
- Total disk space in Windows, Linux, and Unix
- Disk space and performance of storage area networks (SANs)
- Network-attached storage (NAS) of popular vendors
- Hard disk health, including file integrity, hard disk temperature, and other attributes, as well as speed, responsiveness, and errors
- Free and total space of SMB file network systems
Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG hard disk monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve storage and performance issues.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
Discover some of our preconfigured sensors for physical disk monitoring
NetApp Physical Disk v2
The NetApp Physical Disk v2 sensor monitors physical disks of a NetApp storage system. It can show the following:
- The container type
- The number of IOPS and path errors
- The latency and throughput
- The total disk spinning time
SNMP Dell PowerEdge Physical Disk
The SNMP Dell PowerEdge Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk in a Dell PowerEdge server. It can show the following:
- The component status
- The disk status
- The roll up status
- The S.M.A.R.T. status
SNMP HPE ProLiant Physical Disk
The SNMP HPE ProLiant Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk in an HPE server. It can show the following:
- The corrected read and write errors
- The disk status
- The drive condition
- The number of hard read and write errors
- The S.M.A.R.T. status
- The number of sectors read and written
SNMP Cisco UCS Physical Disk
The SNMP Cisco UCS Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk of a Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) device. It can show the following:
- The operability status
- The connection status
SNMP Linux Physical Disk
The SNMP Linux Physical Disk sensor monitors the input/output (I/O) on disks of a Linux/Unix system. It can show the following:
- The number of bytes read and written
- The load average (1, 5, and 15 minutes)
- The number of read and write accesses
SNMP Synology Physical Disk
The SNMP Synology Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk in a Synology network-attached storage (NAS). It can show the following:
- The disk status
- The temperature
SSH SAN Physical Disk
The SSH SAN Physical Disk sensor monitors a physical disk on a storage area network (SAN). It can show the following:
- The disk health status
- The total number of I/O operations
- The data transferred
Windows Physical Disk I/O
The Windows Physical Disk I/O sensor monitors the input/output (I/O) parameters of a hard disk on a Windows system. It can show the following:
- The average number of bytes per read, transfer, and write
- The average number of items in the read and write queue
- The average read, transfer, and write time
- The number of disk read/write and split I/O operations
- The disk read, transfer, and write speed
- The disk write and idle time
WMI Disk Health Sensor
The WMI Disk Health sensor monitors the health of a physical disk on a Windows system. It can show the following:
- The maximum flush latency
- The health status
- The operational status
- The maximum read and write latency
SNMP HPE ProLiant Physical Disk
Start monitoring your hard disks with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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PRTG makes hard disk monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent hard disk storage or performance issues.
“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD
Monitor hard disks: FAQ
1. What is PRTG hard disk monitoring?
PRTG is a proprietary software tool that takes the effort out of ensuring you always have optimal disk space. Available for Windows-based on-premises servers or as a cloud-hosted solution, it's capable of monitoring unlimited devices, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go.
2. Why use a hard disk monitoring tool?
Put simply, because it saves you time, money, and frustration. Think of it as an eagle-eyed guardian who doesn't miss a thing (and never sleeps), constantly checking memory levels and your hardware's performance so you don't have to. Warning you of potential issues like data loss before they slow everyone down or crash the system.
3. How does PRTG hard disk monitor collect data?
Windows-based physical drives are monitored via WMI. Hard drives on Linux and Unix systems are monitored using SSH. Other servers, including SMB network file systems, are monitored via SNMP.
4. How much does PRTG hard disk monitor cost?
We're so confident you'll love PRTG that it comes with a free, no-obligation 30-day trial. Should you decide to keep using it, you can find our pricing list here.
5. What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler AG conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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Network Monitoring Software - Version 24.2.94.1400 (April 10th, 2024) |
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