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Web Service Monitoring with PRTG

Take control of your web service performance with all-in-one monitoring

  • Keep web services fast and reliable with real-time tracking and alerts
  • Prevent downtime by monitoring website availability and SSL certificate expiry
  • Simplify monitoring with one tool for web, virtual, and cloud services
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Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG

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PRTG web service monitoring: What you will find on this page

Table of content
  • Keep your web services running like a champ with PRTG
  • What web service application monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 4 more reasons to choose PRTG as your web service monitoring tool
  • Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for web services monitoring
  • Web Service Monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes web service monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent service disruptions and other performance issues.

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Keep your web services running like a champ with PRTG

Web services are the backbone of modern business. Paessler PRTG's web service monitoring makes sure everything stays healthy, from HTTP status to response times. You'll catch issues before users do, optimize performance, and reduce troubleshooting time.

Keep a close eye on performance

Your web service doesn't live in a vacuum. PRTG tracks HTTP request-response times, DNS resolution times, and web server availability with continuous performance monitoring.

A clear line of sight into your performance data promptly reveals stress points in APIs, websites, and microservices, so you can address specific bottlenecks before they affect user experience.

Stay ahead with proactive monitoring

Don't wait for users to report problems – catch them first. PRTG's synthetic monitoring proactively simulates user interactions and HTTP transactions to test the availability, response times, and endpoint functionality of your web services, web servers, and websites.

This way, you're always one step ahead of outages, slowdowns, and broken endpoints.

Guard against downtime like a pro

Downtime is your enemy, and PRTG keeps you ahead of service interruptions. Using built-in automation, PRTG continuously checks for issues like 404/503 errors, service disruptions, and abnormal response times, alerting you as soon as there’s an issue.

The result? Faster detection, quicker response times, less downtime, and high cost savings.

Track SSL certificate expiration dates

TLS and SSL certificates are easy to overlook – until users see browser warnings or experience service disruptions. PRTG keeps tabs on SSL/TLS certificates to make sure they're valid, up-to-date, and compliant.

You'll receive proactive notifications before expiration, helping you avoid costly service failures and maintain customer trust.

Benchmark your service quality

Don't just hope your web service is fast – prove it. PRTG tracks web application performance, measuring page load times, responsiveness, and uptime.

Generate reports with hard data to share with your team, identify areas for optimization, and make performance-driven decisions to meet your SLAs.

What web service application monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability and performance of your web services. Show uptime, CPU usage, disk space, response time, load times, 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 service disruptions and other performance issues.

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Comprehensive web server monitoring at a glance – from order process to supporting services.

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Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup

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Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure

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Live traffic data graph in PRTG

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

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IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring

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“All-around winning
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“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

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“PRTG Network Monitor 
is very hard to beat”

4 more reasons to choose PRTG as your web service monitoring tool

PRTG gives you the clarity, control, and confidence to keep every API, website, and app running like a dream. Don't just watch it – control it.

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You need real-time alerts when it matters most

If your web service, website, or application goes down, you'll know before your customers do. PRTG alerts you via SMS, email, push notification, and other methods.

Stay ahead of service interruptions, avoid complaints, and keep your business running smoothly. Customizable thresholds let you decide what issues require immediate action so you're not overwhelmed by alert fatigue.

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You need all-in-one network monitoring for simplicity

Stop juggling multiple tools – PRTG brings them all together. Our software provides website monitoring, database monitoring, firewall monitoring, server monitoring, uptime monitoring, cloud monitoring, and more from a single, centralized dashboard.

See it all in one place, and manage your entire IT infrastructure like a pro. This consolidation reduces tool sprawl, cuts costs, and simplifies monitoring for your DevOps team.

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You need multi-vendor support for total compatibility

PRTG plays nice with everyone. It supports monitoring a wide range of software, hardware, and service providers, including Microsoft and Linux, popular APM tools, and frontend technologies.

From cloud platforms to on-premise infrastructure, integration with hybrid IT environments is easy, whether you're working with Windows servers, gateways, or custom-built applications.

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You need a fast setup with no coding required

Skip the headaches of starting from scratch. PRTG web service monitoring comes with many pre-configured sensors that start monitoring in minutes.

Just set up, activate, and you're ready to track every aspect of your web services with minimal hassle. Reduce onboarding time with PRTG and let your team focus on critical development tasks.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for web services monitoring

PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!

Windows IIS Application

The Windows IIS Application sensor monitors a Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) server via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). It can also monitor applications that use IIS, such as Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft Reporting Services (SSRS). It can show the following and more:

  • Number of anonymous and known users
  • Number of bytes and files sent and received
  • Number of CGI, GET, and POST requests
  • Web service status
  • Uptime
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Windows IIS Applicatio

AWS Cost

The AWS Cost sensor monitors the cost of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) account by reading its data from the AWS Cost Explorer API. It can show the following:

  • (Forecast for) amortized cost per month and year
  • (Forecast for) net amortized cost per month and year
  • (Forecast for) net unblended cost per month and year
  • (Forecast for) unblended cost per month and year
  • (Forecast for) monthly and yearly cost
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AWS Cost

HTTP Transaction

The HTTP Transaction sensor monitors an interactive website, such as a web shop, by performing a transaction using a set of HTTP URLs. The sensor monitors whether logins or shopping carts work properly. It can show the following:

  • Maximum amount of data (in kilobytes) that the sensor transfers per request
  • Which user agent string the sensor sends when it connects to the target URL
  • If you want to allow cookies for the transaction
  • What PRTG does with the web page that is loaded at the URL
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HTTP Transaction

HTTP Advanced

The HTTP Advanced sensor monitors the source code of a web page using HTTP. It supports authentication, content checks, and other advanced parameters. It can show the following:

  • Number of bytes received
  • Download speed
  • Loading time
  • Time to the first byte
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HTTP Advanced

See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.

PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG web service monitoring solution

Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.

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“Since using PRTG, we have matured how we report out overall application uptime, maintenance, and mean time between failure for all critical applications to our board of directors. PRTG allows us to not just look at a single event, but to leverage historical data to prevent future failures and to measure how we are making improve­ments over time.”

Bill Sorrells, CTO
Dayton Children's Hospital

“We have found these sophisticated levels of monitoring to be highly effective, improving the end user’s experience of the systems and applications in use, giving us the opportunity to provide a proactive resolution rather than having the end user raise issues.”

Saif Akil, Head of Service Management
Acurus

“Before PRTG, applications and hardware all gave messages, but all separately, so we had to search through hundreds of e-mails to find the problem. It was always only afterwards that we saw that something was going on within the infrastructure. To mitigate the issue, we also considered other software. PRTG stood out because of its user-friendliness, flexibility and minimal consultancy investment.”

Wim Vandenberghe, ICT Manager
Soenen Golfkarton

Your web service monitor at a glance – even on the go

PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.

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We are an AWS Technology Partner  

Paessler is a certified partner in the Amazon Web Services ecosystem, which includes a growing community of software vendors who are building solutions on cloud computing.

What does this mean for you?

  • Easy integration of AWS services and CloudWatch data with PRTG
  • State-of-the-art features for monitoring your cloud environment
  • Expert technical support around your AWS monitoring setup

Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s IT partners

Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.

Martello

Martello 

By integrating PRTG with Martello iQ, you can add a fast analytics layer to improve uptime, visualize your IT environment, and integrate all of your IT systems into a single pane of glass.

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ScriptRunner

With ScriptRunner Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.

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UVnetworks

UVexplorer integrates tightly with PRTG to bring fast and accurate network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network mapping to the PRTG platform.

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PRTG makes web service monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent service disruptions and other performance issues.

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Web Service Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is web service monitoring?

Web service monitoring tracks the health, availability, and performance of web applications, websites, and APIs. PRTG's monitoring tool provides insights into response times, SSL/TLS certificate status, and HTTP errors, helping you identify and resolve problems before users notice. Get constant observability of all critical services and improve service continuity.

Why do I need web service monitoring?

Because customers and end users expect fast, reliable websites and online services. Downtime can mean lost revenue and a bad user experience. PRTG gives you peace of mind, keeping your services online, optimized, and secure.

How does PRTG monitor SSL/TLS certificates?

PRTG's SSL certificate sensors track the expiration dates of TLS/SSL certificates for websites and web services. You'll receive notifications well in advance so you can renew certificates before they expire. With proactive alerts, you'll avoid service interruptions and maintain user trust.

What protocols does PRTG use to monitor web services?

PRTG uses a variety of protocols, including HTTP and HTTPS, WMI, SSL, and custom REST API integrations. These technologies allow it to track web performance and capture data on uptime, response times, and errors. You get surprisingly seamless integration with your existing frameworks and web infrastructure.

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.

We asked: would you recommend PRTG? Over 95% of our customers say yes!

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.

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More than 500,000 sysadmins love PRTG

Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.

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Monitor your entire IT infrastructure

Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.

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Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.

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

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Monitoring with PRTG

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