Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks and network overloads.
Network infrastructures can range from simple with a few routers and an expansive data plan to extremely complex with hybrid networks, WANs, and multiple data centers. Best practice data management demands end-to-end network visibility and monitoring tools that provide in-depth traffic analysis. Paessler PRTG's data usage monitoring not only meets these essential requirements but exceeds them with additional valuable capabilities.
In many networks, Wi-Fi is often the main method for connecting devices to the internet and local network, including mobile phones, workstations, laptops, and IoT devices.
PRTG can track and analyze the amount of data being transmitted over the Wi-Fi network. Identify congestion points, unauthorized internet usage, performance issues, and more. If your organization’s internet connection is more Wi-Fi than not, PRTG has you covered.
Networks have their own version of vampire devices, quietly sucking up needed bandwidth. These background processes can silently degrade network performance when the bandwidth is needed by VoIP calls, file transfers, or cloud services.
PRTG’s real-time bandwidth monitoring is the silver bullet, helping you identify bandwidth hogs, control network traffic, prioritize critical applications, and optimize bandwidth allocation.
Accurate capacity planning is crucial for making sure your network can handle current and future demands. PRTG’s data usage monitoring tracks usage growth trends over time, enabling you to accurately forecast when your current infrastructure will no longer be enough.
In turn, you can plan for those hard data caps, cloud service data limits, and mobile data usage limits, allowing you to stay away from punishing overage fees and service disruptions.
The hybrid business is here, with a growing number of remote workers who rely heavily on their home networks and VPNs for secure, steady connections. PRTG can help identify what’s consuming the most data, set polices or bandwidth usage limits to prioritize work-related traffic, and detect security risks.
You can also track total data usage overtime to understand if the worker’s home internet service provider (ISP) is up to the task or needs to be upgraded.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking data usage across your entire IT infrastructure. Show the performance of your network devices, apps, and operating systems, bandwidth utilization, network traffic by IP address and protocol, 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 data consumption issues and network congestion.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
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Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks and network overloads.
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
“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.”
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IT that works constitutes a business-critical basis for a company's success. Availability and security must be defined for the respective purpose and closely monitored – by OT and IT alike.
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Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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Data usage monitoring tools track and monitor the amount of data transmitted across your network. This monitoring includes bandwidth usage, traffic spikes, peak usage times, and the flow of data between devices, servers, applications, and cloud services.
Data usage monitoring is important to make network management more manageable. PRTG monitoring helps IT teams maintain strong network performance, control costs from outages, data limits and caps, and poor capacity planning. Data usage monitoring allows you to get a grip on your data for proactive, rather than reactive, network management.
PRTG is designed to be flexible, and supports key industry-standard protocols. For example, PRTG uses SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) sensors, as well as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and Packet Sniffing sensors. These protocols are commonly used by network devices for monitoring and management, making PRTG highly adaptable and capable of working in almost any network environment without needing complex configurations or compatibility fixes.
PRTG offers customizable reports that can show bandwidth usage trends, top talkers, and specific device data consumption for defined periods. Customize the level of data provided based on stakeholder needs, so only the ones who need to know get the full data download.
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.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. 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.
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