Subscription-based monitoring with PRTG
Comprehensive network monitoring at its most affordable
- Monitor all your network’s key metrics from one central dashboard
- Choose between on-prem deployment or a cloud-hosted solution
- Always know exactly how much you're spending with one transparent fee
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG subscription-based monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
How much does your enterprise network-monitoring solution cost?
Chances are, you can’t say for sure.
In network administration, there’s rarely such a thing as a one-time purchase. And, the price of the software aside, implementation may – scratch that, often does – come with unexpected additional expenses: staffing, training, buying hardware and other technical infrastructure... Even accessing specific functionality or customizing your monitoring environment to suit might result in extra costs.
Cue your higher-ups complaining about cash flow, budgeting, and forecasting challenges, and asking you to create reports with your subscription analytics so they can get to the bottom of what’s going on.
With Paessler PRTG, you can put these issues firmly in the past.
Whether you opt for an on-premises deployment or our cloud-hosted SaaS solution, you’ll have access to comprehensive network monitoring functionality for one fair, transparent, and predictable fee.
We won’t try to upsell you or force you to upgrade to access critical features in order to boost our subscription metrics. Our business model relies on customer retention. Read, we go out of our way to make sure you’re happy and stick around.
PRTG makes subscription-based network monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks, unplanned downtime, and other network performance issues.
Simple setup, simpler subscription management: Why Paessler PRTG
All-in-one monitoring
Your critical hardware and software metrics in one place: bandwidth, CPU load, server health, availability, apps, virtual machines...
It’s simpler to manage, gives your team a better user experience, and makes it easier to glean valuable insights on your network’s health and performance. Best of all, one payment covers everything.
Built-in automations
Setup and monitoring that take care of themselves. Literally. The automatic network discovery finds every hardware and software component on your network and assigns the right sensors.
Once that’s all sorted, pick your preferred performance thresholds and PRTG will email, text, or send an in-app notification on your mobile app if it detects a potential issue.
Fully customizable
Use PRTG's default settings and start monitoring straight out of the box, or tailor it to your network infrastructure’s exact requirements: custom sensors, user-defined alert thresholds…
You can even create your own library of network topology maps, bespoke charts, graphs, and dashboards, and reporting templates.
Easy to scale
With support for unlimited local, remote, and virtual devices, and flexible pricing, PRTG can handle networks of all shapes and sizes.
Expand your monitoring capabilities as your IT infrastructure becomes more complex or downgrade your subscription any time, no questions asked.
What subscription-based business monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, performance, and health of your entire network at one transparent, cost-effective subscription fee. Show bandwidth usage, network traffic, application performance, hardware health parameters, 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 network issues, optimize your infrastructure, and enhance customer experience.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Start monitoring your IT infrastructure with recurring payments with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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Two subscription offerings: Same powerful functionality
PRTG comes with different network monitoring subscription services. Discover two of them here.
PRTG Hosted Monitor
- Great for MSPs: Excels if you run a distributed network or are a managed services provider
- No dedicated hardware required: Runs in the cloud and is hosted by Paessler
- High availability: Multiple redundancies and regular updates maximize uptime and reduce vulnerabilities
- Flexible subscription plans: Upgrade or downgrade as required
PRTG Network Monitor
- Your own dedicated hardware, hosted at your own physical site
- Failover automation: An available cluster node instantly takes over is your primary master runs into issues
- More control: Handle hosting, administration, and maintenance in-house
- Fixed subscription plans: Choose from five different plans based on sensor count
Your subscription-based network monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG subscription-based 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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UVexplorer integrates tightly with PRTG to bring fast and accurate network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network mapping to the PRTG platform.
“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.”
Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD
PRTG makes subscription-based network monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks, unplanned downtime, and other network performance issues.
Subscription-based monitoring: FAQ
What is PRTG subscription-based monitoring?
Paessler PRTG is a proprietary enterprise network monitoring solution that tracks important metrics and KPIs across your entire network: servers, routers, switches, and other hardware, applications, databases, and even temperature, humidity, and other environmental variables. Available for Microsoft Windows-based on-premises servers or as a cloud-hosted solution, it can monitor unlimited local, remote, and virtual network devices, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere for one affordable monthly, annual, or multi-annual subscription.
Why use subscription-based monitoring?
That’s an easy one. Because paying a single monthly subscription makes forecasting (and budgeting for) monitoring costs simpler and more accurate. The subscription-based pricing model means a single fee covers everything, which will make your life easier and keep your accounts department happy.
Cloud-hosted vs on-premises deployment: What’s the difference?
Both our cloud-hosted and on-premises solutions use a subscription model, which means you pay a fixed monthly or annual fee, with one key difference.
Because PRTG Network Monitor – one of our on-premises solutions – is installed locally, your cost is fixed: you pay the same price for the duration of the subscription period.
By contrast, with PRTG Hosted Monitor – our cloud-based SaaS solution – you have the flexibility to upgrade or downgrade at any point during your subscription period. Should you upgrade or downgrade, the price of your subscription will go correspondingly up or down.
I’m a managed services provider. Can I use PRTG to monitor my clients’ networks?
Yes. PRTG Hosted Monitor’s system of remote probes enable it to monitor any device, even if it’s located 1000 miles away. This makes it ideal for organizations that have distributed IT infrastructure and MSPs who manage and monitor multiple clients’ networks. Our network monitoring solution is also multi-tenant, meaning both you and your clients can access the monitoring environment. And, with our stringent security standards and robust rights management, both you and your clients can rest assured your data is safe.
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
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
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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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 25.1.104.1961 (April 7th, 2025) |
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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 |
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