Check ping and latency with PRTG
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Ping and latency monitoring with PRTG
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- Do you want to improve the latency of your network?
- Everything you need to know about ping and latency
- Test latency once or continuously?
- Especially for small and medium-sized companies: Here are 5 tips on how to optimize your latency
- 3 sensors for latency and ping
- Wait, what exactly is a sensor?
- Network monitoring with PRTG
- PRTG Network Monitor offers this possibility and much more
Do you want to improve the latency of your network?
Latency and ping are probably the most basic elements that both individuals and companies monitor with regard to the same problem, namely a slow connection. This problem can not only be annoying but can also be damaging to businesses in the long run.
PRTG Network Monitor offers numerous options to keep an eye on ping and latency throughout your network.
Everything you need to know about ping and latency
Available for virtually any operating system with network connectivity, Ping is a command-line tool used as a test to determine if a network device is reachable. The Ping command sends a request over the network to a specific device. A successful ping results in a response from the pinged computer back to the original computer. If you want to learn more about ping, we recommend this IT explained article.
There is a fundamental difference between a simple test and comprehensive monitoring:
Ping monitoring allows you to monitor your entire network via ping. During installation, an IP address range is already pinged and a first basic monitoring is set up. If the ping fails, you will be notified immediately.
Test latency once or continuously?
Plain ping test
If you want to determine the latency just once, you can perform a simple ping query. The time required for a ping from a source device to a target device is the ping time, or latency. The number of hops can also be determined using the command line in the form of a traceroute command.
However, such tests are only single measures. If there is a concrete problem, you may be able to identify it using such tests. But comparisons, analyses, or even monitoring is very time consuming or even simply impossible using such measures.
Monitoring tool
With a monitoring tool, you have a permanent overview of the quality of service parameters. Latency time, jitter, mean opinion score, packet loss, and other values are read, monitored, and evaluated 24/7.
If there are deviations, you will receive reliable alarms. At the same time, you monitor your servers, routers, and switches to immediately detect possible causes for latency disturbances and, of course, other network problems.
Here are 5 tips on how to optimize your latency
Below, you can find 5 tips on how small and medium-sized companies can get a better grip on certain latency issues, assuming that they have already decided to use a monitoring tool.
Monitor routers and switches
Even a single switch that does not work properly or a defective router can have a negative effect on latency. You should keep a permanent eye on your hardware, in particular on the important nodes.
Upgrade your hardware
Every network has old hardware that has weaknesses. With a monitoring tool, you can detect these weaknesses. Whether the manufacturer is Cisco, HPE, or Juniper, each has its own advantages. Latency on switches and routers is an important factor when deciding how to upgrade your hardware.
Optimize the routing
With monitoring, you can count and monitor the hops that need data packets from the source computer to the target computer or you can perform a one-click traceroute to a specific device. This can help you improve the routing so that the data packets are routed over fewer routers and switches.
Check your internet connection
What technology is your company using on the internet? If you have the possibility to switch to LTE, fiber, or VDSL, you should consider doing so.
Prioritize individual, important applications
If certain applications are particularly important or frequently used in your company, it can make sense to prioritize them.
3 sensors for latency and ping
Data is the fuel and sensors are the engine for the comprehensive monitoring performance of PRTG. Below, we present 3 sensors that allow you to easily, quickly, and reliably monitor latency, ping, and much more of your network at any time:
- PRTG offers several QoS sensors. These include the QoS (Quality of Service) One Way sensor, which measures the quality of service over the entire route.
- Many Cisco devices collect QoS values themselves. The Cisco IP SLA sensor reads the values and adds them to the central monitoring.
- With the basic Ping v2 sensor PRTG checks the reachability of all devices.
Wait, what exactly is a sensor?
In PRTG, the basic monitoring elements are called sensors. A sensor typically monitors a measured value within your network, for example, the traffic of a switch port, the CPU usage of a server, the free space of a hard disk, and so on. Each device requires approximately 5-10 sensors and one sensor per switch port. If you want to know more about sensors, simply watch this video.
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Network monitoring with PRTG
500,000 sysadmins from all over the world trust PRTG. These administrators work in very different industries. Yet they all have one thing in common, namely that they all want to ensure and improve the availability and performance of their network, whereby keeping an eye on ping and latency is an everyday routine.
Many sysadmins are looking for a tool that they can test for free before deciding to make an investment.
PRTG Network Monitor offers this possibility and much more
Take your time to test if PRTG meets your needs and expectations. Afterwards, your PRTG test configuration can easily be extended. This way, you avoid the risk of a bad purchase. Our free trial lasts for 30 days and is guaranteed to be a non-annoying experience.
Many administrators have different monitoring solutions for their network or infrastructure components. It often costs time and effort to keep an overview with these solutions. With PRTG, you have an all-in-one monitoring solution that offers everything that you are looking for.
Do you have questions? Are you stuck at a certain point? PRTG is backed by dedicated developers and support teams. We always try to answer every question within 24 hours on workdays. Even in the crazy times of home office in 2020.
Hey Greg, what ping monitoring tip can you give us?
“Ping sensors are probably the most important elements of network monitoring that should be set up correctly, especially with regard to their dependencies. For example, if you're monitoring a virtual machine, it's a good idea to set this ping in relation to its host. This way, you won't be notified for every single virtual machine on the host if the host fails. Ping sensors can also be a good indicator of whether a network path to a host or the Internet is working properly, especially in high-availability or failover scenarios.”
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PRTG in a nutshell
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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