PRTG Network Monitor

Network Monitoring Made Easy

PRTG Network Monitor is the powerful network monitoring solution from Paessler AG. It ensures the availability of network components while also measuring traffic and usage. It saves costs by avoiding outages, optimizing connections, saving time and controlling service level agreements (SLAs).

Optimize Your Network and Avoid System Downtimes

Businesses increasingly rely on their networks to move data, provide communication, and enable basic operations. Performance loss or system outages can seriously impact the bottom line of your business. Continuous network and server monitoring enables you to find problems and resolve them before they become a serious threat to your business:

• Avoid bandwidth and server performance bottlenecks
• Deliver better quality of service to your users by being proactive
• Reduce costs by buying bandwidth and hardware based on actual load
• Increase profits by avoiding losses caused by undetected system failures
• Find peace of mind: As long as you do not hear from PRTG via email, SMS, pager, etc. You know everything is running fine and you have more time to take care of other important business

Download the freeware or the free trial and setup your network monitor within minutes.

PRTG Network Monitor's GUI

Your Entire Network at a Glance

PRTG Network Monitor covers all aspects of network monitoring:
up-/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, SNMP, NetFlow, packet sniffing and many more, combined with concise reporting and analysis features - One clear and simple solution for your entire network.

Aggregated statistics

Bandwidth and Network Usage Monitoring

PRTG Network Monitor runs 24/7 on a Windows-based machine within your network, recording network usage parameters. Recorded data is stored in a database for historic reports.

The easy to use web-based user interface allows to configure the devices and sensors that you want to monitor. You can create usage reports and provide colleagues and customers access to graphs and tables.

All common methods for network usage data acquisition are supported:

Traffic on a a firewall

SNMP and WMI
WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) and SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) are used to gather bandwidth usage and performance data for all systems within your network, including port-by-port usage data for switches and routers.
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Packet Sniffing
With its integrated packet sniffing capability PRTG can inspect all network data packets travelling in your LAN or WLAN to calculate the bandwidth usage.
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NetFlow
The NetFlow protocol is supported by most Cisco routers to measure bandwidth usage. It is the most powerful monitoring method, suitable for high traffic networks.
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Performance and Availability Monitoring

PRTG Network Monitor includesmore than 40 sensor types for all common network services (e.g. PING, HTTP, SMTP, POP3, FTP, etc.), allowing to monitor your network systems for speed and failures. As soon as outages occur the software will alert you by sending emails, SMS, pager messages and other notifications. Request times and downtimes are constantly recorded in the database and you can compile performance, downtime and SLA reports at any given time.

A server is monitored closely

Freeware Edition and Commercial Editions

TheFreeware Edition of PRTG Network Monitor is completely free for personal and commercial use and may be downloaded for free. TheCommercial Editions are required if you want to monitor more than ten sensors.