Comprehensive network throughput
monitoring with PRTG
Monitor network throughput
and network bandwidth
Identify and eliminate
bandwidth hogs
Be notified in the event of performance bottlenecks
What is network throughput?
Network throughput refers to the amount of net data (i.e. without "overhead”) that can be transmitted by a network at any given point in time. It is usually displayed as an average and measured in bits per second (bps). Throughput is an important value for measuring the performance of a network connection. Large numbers of lost packets or errors during the transmission of messages eventually lead to lower throughput and drops in performance.
Why is network throughput monitoring important?
If your network is slow and sluggish, one of the first things you’ll want to look at is your network throughput. Together with bandwidth, throughput plays a vital role in the network performance.
PRTG shows you which applications, users, and protocols consume the most bandwidth. As a result, you can take specific actions to free up space.
By monitoring statistics, you’ll be able to tell if shutting down individual applications and users is enough, or if you need to acquire more bandwidth.
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How does PRTG monitor network throughput?
PRTG monitors every aspect of your bandwidth.
Depending on your network and hardware, you can monitor using protocols such as SNMP, Flow, and packet sniffing.
Continuous monitoring in the background
The PRTG network monitoring tool runs in the background, monitoring the performance of your network without you having to do a thing. An easy-to-read user interface lets you check the status of your sensors at all times and confirm that everything is OK in the network.
Detailed statistics
PRTG not only provides a snapshot of network throughput, latency, and bandwidth consumption, but also lets you analyze historical data. Detailed statistics and charts show you if peak loads occur at regular intervals that lead to packet losses or poor network performance.
Alarm
Throughput falls below a certain level? Available bandwidth is dangerously low? Network latency is repeatedly too high? Configure the PRTG alarm to catch all these situations. If one of your threshold values is exceeded, you’ll automatically be informed by email, SMS, or push notification.
How does PRTG test bandwidth?
PRTG lets you check whether your ISP is actually providing the amount of network throughput and bandwidth that you have paid for. The best way to do so is to generate periodic peak loads and measure performance with PRTG. One option is described here:
- Create three HTTP Advanced sensors, which access various 500 KB files from a variety of servers (e.g. your ISP’s static websites).
- Set a 5-minute interval and let the sensors run for a few hours.
- Keep an eye on the sensor’s measured values and charts.
If your bandwidth is advertised at 8 Mbps, it should take approximately 0.5 seconds to download a 500 KB file. If the connection is also used by others, you may see jitter on the graph. Otherwise the graph should resemble a straight line.
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PRTG at a glance
PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure
Use PRTG to monitor, for example, network traffic, applications, bandwidth, cloud services, databases, virtual environments, availability & uptime, ports, IP addresses, hardware status, network security, web services, and much more.
PRTG supports the most important technologies
Monitor your network for example via SNMP, flow protocols (NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX), SSH, WMI, or ping. PRTG also supports technologies used in Industrial IT & OT environments, such as OPC UA, MQTT, or Modbus. Use the powerful PRTG API for custom integrations (for example via Python, PowerShell, or REST).
PRTG can be used for any operating system
Download and install PRTG Network Monitor on a Windows system or use our cloud-based product PRTG Hosted Monitor for all other operating systems. What’s more: our native PRTG Desktop application runs on Windows or macOS – for even quicker access & multi-server views.
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More than 500,000 sysadmins love PRTG
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Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 23.1.82.2175 (March 1st, 2023) |
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Hosting |
Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages |
English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
Supported Vendors & Applications |
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