The perfect home network monitor
Comprehensive network monitoring tool for your entire home IT infrastructure
Real-time alerts and notifications via SMS, email, or in-app push notification
Freeware edition with up to 100 sensors free for life
Paessler PRTG: The home network monitor
Monitor your network using the home network monitor
PRTG Network Monitor is the perfect tool for monitoring home networks: For basic monitoring needs, Paessler offers a free version of PRTG.
With more than 250 supported sensor types, the home network monitor is a comprehensive network monitoring software that offers you functionality for availability and bandwidth monitoring, for monitoring virtual environments, web monitoring, and basically your entire network.
You can visualize monitoring data on customizable dashboards and network maps so that you can see downtime and outages at a glance and troubleshoot them immediately.
What can I monitor with PRTG?
The home network monitor allows you to use up to 100 sensors, which is often enough to manage small business or home networks. PRTG supports Ping, SNMP, WMI, NetFlow for Cisco devices, packet sniffing for network traffic monitoring, and more. You can use the free network monitor to check network activity, and to monitor network devices such as servers, routers, switches, firewalls, or single computers. For this, PRTG comes with different features out of the box.
Windows server and Linux operating system monitoring
SQL server performance monitoring
VMware monitoring
Microsoft 365 monitoring
Monitoring on the go with our PRTG apps for iOS and Android
PRTG Network Monitor
Paessler's home network monitor PRTG is available in two editions.
Free version
For monitoring home networks, the freeware may be downloaded and used for personal and commercial use completely free of charge.
Commercial licenses
Need more sensors to monitor a larger IT infrastructure? See our commercial licenses here.
Trusted by 500,000 users and recognized
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“Fantastic network and infrastructure monitoring solution that is easy to deploy and easier still to use. Simply the best available.”
“Software is absolutely perfect, Support is superior. Meets all needs and requirements, this is a must have solution if you are needing any form of monitoring.”
“The tool excels at its primary focus of being a unified infrastructure management and network monitoring service.”
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
Still not convinced?
More than 500,000 sysadmins love PRTG
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Still not convinced?
Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Try Paessler PRTG for free
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free. Start now with your trial.
PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 24.3.100.1361 (September 25th, 2024) |
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 |