Get your infrastructure monitored in minutes,
not days

Auto-discovery finds your devices, pre-configured sensors start monitoring immediately, and you'll have visibility into your entire network before lunch. Here's how to get the most out of PRTG from day one.

First 30 minutes Essential Setup Go Deeper

First 30 Minutes

Get up and running with PRTG in three quick steps

Step 1: Install & Activate
(5-10 min)

Step 2: Discover Your Network (10-15 min)

Step 3: Start Monitoring
(5-10 min)

Completed the first 30 minutes?

Continue to Essential Setup to configure alerts, dashboards, and optimize your monitoring ↓

Essential Setup

Configure PRTG for your specific needs

Device Tree Structure & Inheritance

Learn how to organize your devices and take advantage of PRTG's inheritance system to configure settings once and apply them across your infrastructure.

SNMP & Protocol Monitoring

Set up the most common monitoring protocols to collect data from your network devices, servers, and systems.

Bandwidth Monitoring

Monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage using SNMP, flows, or packet sniffing—depending on your needs.

Understanding Sensor States & Limits

Learn when and why sensors change their state, and how to set up thresholds that trigger alerts when issues arise.

Setting Up Notifications

Configure PRTG to send alerts via email, SMS, push notifications, or integrate with your ticketing system.

Triggers & Advanced Use Cases

Define when and how notifications should be triggered, and explore advanced notification scenarios.

Creating Custom Dashboards

Build visual dashboards to monitor your infrastructure at a glance—perfect for NOC displays or executive overviews.

Geo Maps & Network Topology

Display your devices on geographical maps to visualize distributed infrastructure across locations.

Organizing & Prioritizing

Use libraries, favorites, and priorities to focus on what matters most to you.

Priorities and Favorites (Manual)

User Management & Access Control

Set up user accounts and define who can see and modify which parts of your PRTG installation.

Access Rights Management (Manual)

PRTG Architecture & User Interfaces

Understand how PRTG is built and explore the different interfaces available—web, desktop, mobile apps.

Data Management & Backup

Learn how PRTG stores data, how to back up your configuration, and how to migrate to a new server.

Essential setup complete?

Explore advanced features below for distributed monitoring, custom sensors, and optimization ↓

Go Deeper

Advanced features for complex environments

For Distributed Infrastructure

Monitor multiple sites, set up remote probes, and configure failover clustering for high availability.

Remote Probes & Multiple Sites

Deploy remote probes to monitor distributed locations from a central PRTG installation.

High Availability with Failover Cluster

Set up a failover cluster to ensure your monitoring stays online even if the primary server goes down.

For Custom Monitoring Needs

Build custom sensors, use advanced receiver sensors, and create composite sensors for complex monitoring scenarios.

Custom Sensors

Create custom SNMP sensors, HTTP sensors, or script-based sensors to monitor anything PRTG doesn't cover by default.

Receiver Sensors

Set up sensors that receive data from external sources like syslog, SNMP traps, or packet captures.

Composite Sensors

Combine multiple sensors into aggregated views using Sensor Factory or Business Process sensors.

For Specific Environments

Monitor databases, virtual machines, applications, and quality of service for VoIP and video conferencing.

Monitoring Specific Infrastructure Types

For Optimization

Optimize your setup with libraries, templates, dependencies, scheduling, and advanced reporting.

Alternative Views & Templates

Use libraries to create custom views of your device tree, and save time with device templates.

Dependencies & Scheduling

Reduce alert noise with dependencies, and control when sensors actively monitor using schedules.

Advanced Reporting

Create custom reports, schedule automated report delivery, and analyze historical data.

Help & Resources

Get support when you need it

Need Help?

Troubleshooting

Common issues

My SNMP sensors don't work (Knowledge Base)

My WMI sensors don't work (Knowledge Base)

Debugging Tools

How to open a support ticket (Video)

Logs (Manual)

Start monitoring with Paessler PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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