Build a superior storage network strategy with SAN monitoring and PRTG
- Ensure your SAN operates at peak efficiency without unexpected slowdowns
- Receive immediate notifications on critical SAN health and performance metrics
- Plan strategic SAN expansions and manage storage resources with detailed usage analytics
- Leverage intuitive dashboards for a comprehensive view of your SAN's health
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PRTG SAN monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes SAN monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent availability, speed, and security issues with your storage area network.
Maximize your storage network’s performance and reliability
Ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of your storage area network (SAN) is crucial for the smooth operation of your business's critical applications and services. Paessler PRTG offers a 360-degree view of your SAN infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance while minimizing risks associated with data loss and downtime.
Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks
Keep your SAN running at peak efficiency with PRTG's detailed performance tracking. Monitor throughput, IOPS, and network latency across all SAN components.
Quickly identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks or abnormal performance degradation. This proactive approach helps maintain a seamless data flow and optimizes your network's overall performance.
Ensure continuous SAN health with real-time alerts
Stay ahead of potential issues with customizable, real-time alerts on the health and status of your SAN infrastructure.
Whether it's hardware failures, capacity thresholds, or unexpected changes in performance, PRTG sends immediate notifications to designated stakeholders, allowing for swift action to prevent downtime and ensure continuous data availability.
Optimize capacity planning with detailed usage insights
Effective capacity management is key to a scalable and efficient network. With PRTG SAN monitoring tools, gain in-depth insights into storage utilization and growth trends across disks, arrays, and pools.
These insights enable precise storage capacity planning, helping you make informed decisions about expansions, upgrades, and optimizations to support your organization's data storage needs.
Streamline SAN monitoring with an intuitive dashboard
Simplify your SAN monitoring with PRTG's intuitive and customizable dashboards. Gain a centralized view of your storage network's performance, capacity, and health metrics at a glance.
This centralized oversight allows for easy monitoring and management, saving time and reducing complexity in overseeing your SAN environment.
What SAN monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously monitoring your storage area network. Show storage performance and capacity utilization in real time and visualize data in graphic maps & dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot network congestion and hardware failures.
Device tree overview of the complete monitoring setup
SSH SAN System Health sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for monitoring storage systems
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PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
5 reasons to choose PRTG as your SAN monitoring tool
Comprehensive monitoring
PRTG offers extensive network monitoring capabilities across your SAN. From individual disks to entire storage arrays, PRTG helps you ensure every component is under surveillance for optimal performance and reliability.
Customize port security ratings
Monitor key performance metrics in real-time to immediately identify and resolve issues that could impact your SAN's efficiency and the availability of critical services, and to ensure your co-workers are able to access SAN data without delays.
Customizable alerting system
Tailor alerts to meet the specific needs of your SAN environment and only get the notifications you want. Set device-level thresholds from critical for highly sensitive devices to warning for non-critical or low-sensitivity network devices.
Effortless setup and scalability
PRTG's user-friendly setup process and flexible integration options make it easy to start monitoring your SAN infrastructure right away, with minimal disruption to your existing workflows. And, as your data storage needs grow, PRTG scales with you.
High network and data security
The use of RAID technology makes storage area networks especially secure. Make it even more secure by continuously monitoring your SANs with PRTG, and comprehensively protect your stored data against hardware errors or data loss.
Your SAN monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG storage area network monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with storage-related errors, failures, and bottlenecks.
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How SAN monitoring with PRTG works
PRTG comes with preconfigured sensor types for SAN monitoring that you can use with the products of a wide variety of manufacturers, including Dell PowerVault, Dell EqualLogic, and NetApp. Our manufacturer-independent SAN sensors use SSH to query data. A command line interface must be present in the SAN to be able to monitor your storage area networks with SSH.
SSH SAN System Health
The SSH SAN System Health sensor can monitor the following:
- Overall status
- Disk controller, memory controller, and on-board temperature
- Capacitor cell and pack voltage
SSH SAN Physical Disk
The SSH SAN Physical Disk sensor can monitor the following:
- Hard disk health status
- Number of I/O operations per second
- Amount of data transmitted per second
SSH SAN Logical Disk
The SSH SAN Logical Disk sensor can monitor the following:
- Logical disk health status
- Number of I/O operations per second
- Amount of data transmitted per second
SSH SAN Enclosure
The SSH SAN Enclosure sensor can monitor the following:
- Overall enclosure status
- Power supply status
- Controller status
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“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.”
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PRTG makes SAN monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent availability, speed, and security issues with your storage area network.
Monitoring storage area networks: FAQ
What is a SAN?
SAN stands for storage area network. It's a specialized, high-speed network that connects servers to storage devices such as disk arrays, tape libraries, and other storage devices. SANs are typically used to enhance storage devices' accessibility, scalability, and performance. They provide block-level access to storage, allowing multiple servers to access the same storage resources concurrently, which can be crucial in enterprise environments with large-scale storage needs and high availability requirements.
Can PRTG monitor both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs?
Yes, PRTG provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities for both Fibre Channel and iSCSI SANs, offering deep insights into the performance and health of your storage networks regardless of the underlying technology.
How does PRTG help in preventing SAN-related downtime?
By offering real-time threshold monitoring and alerts for performance bottlenecks, capacity issues, hardware failures, and more, PRTG enables IT teams to address problems promptly, significantly reducing the risk of SAN-related downtime.
Does PRTG support the monitoring of multi-vendor SAN environments?
Absolutely. PRTG is designed to support SAN monitoring across a variety of vendors, ensuring seamless and unified monitoring capabilities even in heterogeneous storage environments.
Can PRTG predict future SAN capacity requirements?
Absolutely. PRTG is designed to support SAN monitoring across a variety of vendors, ensuring seamless and unified monitoring capabilities even in heterogeneous storage environments.
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
More than just a monitoring tool:
Reasons our customers love PRTG
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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