Introduction | Paessler PRTG Data Exporter Manual

PRTG Manual: Introduction

Welcome to Paessler PRTG Data Exporter, our solution to combine data from multiple PRTG servers and build unified, customizable Grafana dashboards.

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PRTG Data Exporter allows you to:

▪Set up a continuous data collection flow to regularly sync new data to your databases.

▪Filter monitoring data into different data profiles that you can send to target databases.

▪Connect to one or more independent PRTG core servers or PRTG Hosted Monitor instances (hereinafter referred to as PRTG servers) and collect data into a single database.

▪Use agents to create a distributed data collection for segmented networks.

▪Connect to Grafana to visualize your data with dashboards.

About this manual

This manual provides a comprehensive overview of PRTG Data Exporter.

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