Storage monitoring with PRTG
Keep a 24/7 eye on your storage system’s availability and performance
- Keep track of physical and virtual storage devices, NAS, SANs, and cloud storage
- Avoid storage capacity problems and other failures that hurt your business
- Prevent data loss with all-in-one monitoring of your entire data storage process
PRTG storage monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes storage performance monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent low storage space, data loss, and other issues with your storage environment.
4 business problems you will avoid with PRTG storage monitoring
Paessler PRTG helps you avoid negative business impacts due to storage problems or failures with 24/7 storage monitoring of all components – hardware as well as software, availability as well as performance and security.
Data loss through high temperature
PRTG helps you detect cooling failures before they lead to synchronous destruction of hardware components and to irreversible loss of data.
Although these systems have multiple layers of redundancy based on RAID levels and multiple disks, failures still happen without proper temperature monitoring with a tool like PRTG.
Data loss through faulty hardware
PRTG helps you detect faulty hardware so it can be replaced in time to assure maximum performance and reliability for the entire system.
Although these systems can handle the loss of multiple disks without urgent problems, such failures cause performance issues and can lead to data loss on a long-term basis.
Data loss through software issues
Since storage systems depend mainly on software components, even a small undetected error can become a critical failure that causes massive data loss.
PRTG helps you detect and identify the root cause of such errors, and helps preserve data integrity that is affected by backup software, databases, and virtual infrastructures.
Business loss through performance problems
With PRTG, you can easily avoid disturbances such as critical business processes that slow down because data is not available or can’t be stored in time.
Prevent problems such as a failed purchasing process in a web shop, a backup process that’s interrupted and corrupted, or a security update that fails and leaves open vulnerabilities.
What storage observability looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your storage systems, including virtual and physical servers, network-attached storage (NAS), storage area networks (SAN), content delivery networks (CDN), and cloud storage. Show response times, CPU and memory usage, latency, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot storage bottlenecks, low storage capacity, and unplanned downtime.
Start monitoring your storage infrastructure with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
4 more reasons why to choose PRTG as your storage monitoring tool
Real-time notifications
If your IT teams need custom alerting that only triggers a notification if necessary and just informs the responsible person and not the whole company, PRTG is what you’ll need.
Define your individual warning and error thresholds, and PRTG alerts you via SMS, email, push notification, and other methods if there is an issue so that you can step in and save the day.
Wide vendor compatibility
Get out-of-the-box support for Dell EMC, NetApp, Lenovo, QNAP, IBM, HPE 3PAR, Synology, and cloud storage vendors like AWS, Azure, Google, or Microsoft.
Not what you’re looking for? Then create your custom integration for the storage provider of your choice. Your system, your rules.
All-in-one network monitoring
Do away with juggling multiple monitoring tools by several vendors you use – especially if each storage system offers its individual monitoring system.
PRTG provides you with one central monitoring solution with a unified overview that lets you track your storage environment as well as your entire IT infrastructure at a glance.
Beyond the storage system
PRTG monitors the entire path data takes from the source application to the final disk, folder or database where it is stored.
This also includes keeping a 24/7 eye on network connectivity, bandwidth usage, storage resource allocation, and other IT components that play a vital role in the data storage process.
Your storage monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for storage monitoring
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
NetApp Physical Disk v2
The NetApp Physical Disk v2 sensor monitors physical disks of a NetApp storage system using ONTAP. It can show the following:
- Container type
- Number of IOPS and path errors
- Latency
- Total time the disk has been spinning
- Throughput
HPE 3PAR Drive Enclosure
The HPE 3PAR Drive Enclosure sensor monitors a drive enclosure of an HPE 3PAR storage system. It can show the following:
- Average, highest, and lowest drive temperature
- Drive and drive enclosure status
- Interface card status
- Power supply status
Dell EMC Unity Storage LUN v2
The Dell EMC Unity Storage LUN v2 sensor monitors a logical unit number (LUN) on a Dell EMC storage system. It can show the following:
- Allocated metadata size
- Allocated and total size
- Allocated and used snapshot size
- Health status
Microsoft Azure Storage Account
The Microsoft Azure Storage Account sensor monitors the storage account in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
- Average E2E latency
- Total number of requests made to the storage service
- Latency of the storage
- Total egress and ingress
- Used capacity
WMI Storage Pool
The WMI Storage Pool sensor monitors a storage pool on a Windows system. It can show the following:
- Free space
- Health status
- Operational status
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG storage monitoring solution
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
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PRTG makes storage performance monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent low storage space, data loss, and other issues with your storage environment.
Monitoring storage: FAQ
What types of storage are there?
There are several types of storage, typically categorized based on the technology, purpose, or use case. Here's an overview:
- Hard disk drives (HDD), solid-state drives (SSD), and NVMe drives
- Optical storage such as CDs and DVDs
- Direct-attached storage (DAS): Storage directly connected to a single computer (e.g., internal/external drives)
- Network-attached storage (NAS): A dedicated storage device accessible over a network
- Storage area network (SAN): A high-performance network that connects servers to shared storage
- Cloud storage (Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, AWS)
What is storage monitoring?
Storage monitoring refers to the process of tracking, analyzing, and managing the performance, capacity, and health of storage systems to ensure optimal functionality and efficiency. This involves using tools or software to provide visibility into various storage resources, such as disks, arrays, or cloud-based storage, and helps identify and resolve potential issues before they become critical.
Key aspects of storage monitoring include:
- Tracking the input/output operations per second (IOPS), latency, and throughput
- Ensuring that storage systems can handle workloads efficiently without bottlenecks
- Monitoring the amount of storage space available and in use
- Preventing storage shortages or over-provisioning with informed storage capacity planning
- Checking the status of hardware components like disks, arrays, or RAID configurations
- Monitoring unauthorized access or unusual activity that could indicate a breach.
Why should I monitor my storage systems?
Monitoring storage systems is important for several reasons, including:
- Proactive maintenance: Identifies issues before they impact users, preventing downtime.
- Improved performance: Ensures that storage systems operate at peak efficiency by detecting bottlenecks and keeping an eye on different performance metrics
- Cost savings: Prevents unnecessary purchases by providing insights into storage utilization.
- Scalability: Helps plan for future storage needs based on usage trends.
- Data protection: Minimizes the risk of data loss by monitoring health and redundancy mechanisms.
How can I optimize the performance of my storage infrastructure with PRTG?
PRTG is a comprehensive network monitoring tool that can be effectively used to optimize the performance of your storage infrastructure. It can keep an eye on storage metrics such as disk I/O, latency, disk usage, RAID health, storage array performance, or cache utilization. Its real-time alerts and custom notifications help you proactively solve issues with your storage setup. What’s more: With PRTG’s wealth of historical data and in-depth reporting, it can help you with storage capacity planning and workload distribution.
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
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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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