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Cloud-Based Network Monitoring with PRTG

All-in-one hosted monitoring for your entire IT environment

  • Hosted by us, no need to set up dedicated server hardware
  • Compatible with all operating systems, including Windows and Linux
  • Flexible pricing and scalability with easy upgrades as required
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PRTG cloud-based network monitoring: What you will find on this page

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  • PRTG Hosted Monitor at a glance
  • How PRTG Hosted Monitor will make your life easier
  • What cloud-based network monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 4 reasons why PRTG is the cloud-based network monitoring tool of your choice
  • Cloud-Based Network Monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes cloud-based network monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent connectivity and network performance issues, and even full outages.

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PRTG Hosted Monitor at a glance

Our cloud-based network monitoring tool boasts all the same features as an on-premises tool – but is more flexible and even quicker to set up.

  • A comprehensive monitoring solution for your entire IT infrastructure
  • Hosted on AWS servers in many different regions worldwide and managed by Paessler
  • Automatic updates, backups, security enhancements, and availability checks
  • Quick and easy setup, no special hardware required
  • Annual or multi-year subscription based on the number of sensors
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How PRTG Hosted Monitor will make your life easier

PRTG Hosted Monitor is a comprehensive and easy-to-use monitoring tool that lets you keep a constant eye on every aspect of your network. Since it’s cloud-based, it makes your life as a sysadmin a lot easier.

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Configure in minutes

PRTG Hosted Monitor is ready to go in just a few clicks. No need to find and set up a spare computer. Instead, you can start monitoring immediately from your browser. Your PRTG monitoring environment is hosted on a fast and reliable AWS server.

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Save time and stress

With PRTG Hosted Monitor, we take care of all your administrative tasks such as hosting, applying updates, and backing up data. This frees up time for configuring and customizing your monitoring environment to meet the needs of your company.

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More network security

Your subscription comes with AWS GuardDuty, a special feature that keeps an eye out for suspicious and potentially malicious activities (upon request). This way, you can makes sure that your network is protected from security vulnerabilities 24/7.

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Get flexible pricing

Try PRTG Hosted Monitor for 10 days with no strings attached. When ready, choose a flexible plan based on the number of sensors you need. You can upgrade (or downgrade) at any time and choose from annual or multi-year subscriptions.

What cloud-based network monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability and performance of your network devices, cloud services, virtual machines, and other endpoints. Show CPU usage, bandwidth utilization, network traffic, latency, uptime, and other key performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot bottlenecks, downtime, and other network issues.

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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 from the cloud 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
 network monitor”

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“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

ITPro

“PRTG Network Monitor 
is very hard to beat”

4 reasons why PRTG is the cloud-based network monitoring tool of your choice

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User-friendly setup

PRTG is extremely easy to use. Quick setup and an intuitive interface provide for an outstanding user experience.

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Highly customizable

PRTG can be customized to meet your precise monitoring needs. It comes with more than 250 native sensor types, and lets you create your own custom sensors, maps, and dashboards.

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All-in-one observability

With any subscription, you get all monitoring features, including flow monitoring, network traffic monitoring, and monitoring of virtual environments.

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Real-time visibility

PRTG Hosted Monitor runs on any operating system with any supported web browser. Or use our mobile apps to get actionable insights into your monitoring environment – even while on the go.

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

compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

PRTG makes cloud-based performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent connectivity and network performance issues, and even full outages.

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“With PRTG, we can comprehensively monitor our email services in the cloud, and ensure that – as the team in charge – we are immediately informed in the event of a malfunction and can quickly take actions to fix it. It wasn’t until we started using PRTG that we realized how error-ridden our Microsoft cloud service can be.”

Monitoring expert
Oettinger Davidoff

“Part of our infrastructure runs with Azure. This information is then sent to PRTG via Powershell. Paessler is a great solution for us. We get alerts sent directly to our phones and if something goes wrong somewhere, we can immediately deal with it. It’s our lifeline. This is why Paessler gives us a sense of security no matter what the time of day.”

Gert-Jan Hiddink, DevOps Engineer
CowManager

“As more and more companies start to integrate new systems, they aren’t going to use legacy networks. Instead, clients are implementing more cloud-based solutions with newer programming languages. Being able to closely monitor cloud-based solutions and customize sensors based on clients’ needs is extremely helpful in making sure the process runs and continues to function as smoothly as possible.”

Edgard Concha, Director of Information Systems
Resolvit

Your cloud-based network 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
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Rittal

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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NetBrain

Integrating monitoring results from PRTG into NetBrain maps makes the foundation for network automation.

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

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG cloud-based network monitoring solution

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

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Paessler PRTG

Network Monitoring Software – Version 25.2.106.1114 (May 05th, 2025)

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Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available

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English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese

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Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more

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Choose the PRTG Network Monitor subscription that's best for you

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Cloud-Based Network Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is cloud-based network monitoring?

Every IT team needs a reliable network monitoring tool. Traditionally installed on an in-house server, a network monitoring software monitors every aspect of local and distributed networks, including bandwidth, hardware, and the CPU usage of virtual machines. A cloud-based network monitoring tool, on the other hand, runs in the cloud. As a result, it does not need to be hosted by a dedicated in-house server.

What can I monitor with PRTG Hosted Monitor?

Routers, switches, servers, hardware, operating systems, applications, virtualized environments, cloud infrastructure, websites, email servers, databases, VoIP and QoS, IP SLA, logs, events, performance, NetFlow/IPFIX, sFlow and jFlow, packet sniffing, SNMP, WMI, REST API, temperature, humidity, and much more!

We offer over 250 sensors out of the box and many customizable options like preconfigured custom sensors and using your own scripts.

What's the difference between PRTG Hosted Monitor and PRTG Network Monitor?

PRTG Hosted Monitor is offered as a service by Paessler and runs in the cloud. You don't need a PRTG core server installation inside your network because we take over the hosting for you.

With PRTG Network Monitor, you integrate the PRTG core server directly into your network. Please see the following table for the most important differences:

TopicPRTG Hosted MonitorPRTG Network Monitor
PRTG core and local probe runIn the cloudIn your network
Remote probes runOn your serversOn your servers
LicensingAnnual or multi-annual subscriptionAnnual subscription
ScalabilityUpgrade and downgradeUpgrade
Maximum installation size10,000 sensors10,000 sensors
Trial period10 days30 days
Freeware (100 sensors)Not availableAvailable after trial
Custom sensors (probe based)Yes (on remote probes)Yes
RDP/console access available 
to PRTG core server
NoYes
High availabilityAutomatic disaster recoveryActive-active failover cluster
Updates are managed byPaesslerUser

* Please see the size recommendations.

How does PRTG Hosted Monitor collect data?

With PRTG Hosted Monitor, you can instantly start to monitor all servers, services, or devices that are publicly available via the internet. If you'd like to monitor targets in your LAN that aren't available over the internet, you can install a remote probe in your network. The remote probe collects the monitoring data from your internal network and connects back to your PRTG Hosted Monitor instance in the cloud, where all monitoring data is centrally available.

You can connect as many remote probes as you'd like to make multiple LANs available that may be separated by firewalls, or to use packet sniffing on computers in your LAN or WAN.

How is my monitoring affected when my internet connection is down?

The remote probe continues its monitoring and stores the results. Once the internet connection is re-established, cached data is sent to the cloud instance of PRTG Hosted Monitor and written to the database. Of course, without an internet connection, you will not be able to reach PRTG’s web-based user interface.

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 from the cloud with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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    Paessler PRTGMonitor your whole IT infrastructure
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Monitoring with PRTG

  • Network monitoring
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