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Cloud Performance Monitoring with PRTG

Unlock the full potential of your cloud

  • Identify cloud performance bottlenecks with real-time cloud metrics
  • Monitor your cloud usage to gain insight into potential cost savings
  • Check your cloud environment with preconfigured AWS & Azure sensors
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PRTG cloud performance monitoring: What you will find on this page

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  • 5 issues that are a thing of the past with PRTG cloud performance monitoring
  • What cloud performance monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 4 reasons why PRTG is the cloud monitoring tool of your choice
  • Preconfigured PRTG sensors for cloud performance monitoring
  • Cloud performance monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes cloud performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent cloud platform issues.

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Monitor your cloud performance with PRTG and turn problems into solutions

Maintaining a cloud could be such a great job. After all, what IT professional doesn't enjoy modern technology? Regularly working on new, exciting topics and learning new things are a wonderful thing. If there weren't disturbances like poor response times, provider issues, or unavailable data centers.

But there is a great, user-friendly solution that will allow you to focus on the exiting tasks: Paessler PRTG.

With helpful features such as application performance monitoring, our cloud monitoring software helps you turn observability problems into brief distractions. No matter if you are responsible for a hybrid cloud or other cloud environments.

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5 issues that are a thing of the past with PRTG cloud performance monitoring

Reduce performance bottlenecks

Your company has developed a successful cloud-based application and your customers love it? Then it is the time to make sure it stays that way. Performance bottlenecks are only one of several possible causes that can lead to problems for your customers and yourself.

With PRTG real-time cloud performance metrics, you always have an eye on potential culprits like routers and switches.

Optimize resource utilization

Your constantly evolving SaaS portfolio (naturally) requires more and more resources. Optimal resource utilization is no longer optional, but more important and business critical than ever.

PRTG cloud performance monitoring helps you discover your biggest resource hogs and simplifies planning for better workload distribution. Enjoy fewer problems in your daily work while constantly improving application performance.

Improve cloud latency

Obviously, the worst-case scenario is if your cloud-native application completely fails. But poor latency and the frustration and long faces it brings to users should also be taken seriously.

Fast access to every service you use, especially cloud services, is essential, as a lot of users have low frustration tolerance. This is especially true if a DevOps engineer is currently optimizing their Kubernetes workflow. With PRTG, you can achieve the fastest response time possible.

Have an eye on your cloud cost

You don't talk about money? That way of thinking is outdated, especially when it comes to pricing and the monthly costs of your cloud, because it's easy to lose track here. Especially if you set up automation that adds more cloud resources when a certain threshold is reached.

This makes it even more important to keep an eye on your cloud costs: PRTG comes with preconfigured sensors for AWS and Azure to check your subscriptions costs, including forecasts.

Minimize cloud service downtime

When your cloud environment experiences unexpected downtime, it's not just a headache for you. It's also a big problem for the end users of your services. Crisis mode will kick in on both sides, even though this could have been avoided with a cloud performance monitoring solution like PRTG.

Thanks to proactive monitoring of your cloud services, you can catch problems before they become big deals.

What cloud performance monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking cloud applications. Show private cloud, hybrid cloud 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 your entire cloud platform.

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Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup

Preconfigured AWS EBS v2 sensor in PRTG

Preconfigured AWS EBS v2 sensor in PRTG

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

Start monitoring your cloud performance 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”

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“PRTG Network Monitor 
is very hard to beat”

4 reasons why PRTG is the cloud performance monitoring tool of your choice

A standout cloud performance monitoring tool has two main superpowers. First, it has the right sensors to find the root cause of problems in your multi-cloud environment. Second, it makes your life easier with out-of-the-box, quality-of-life features.

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Custom alerts and notifications

What’s better than real-time alerts? That’s right, customizable real-time alerts. You don’t just get notifications when your thresholds are exceeded. Depending on the severity of the event, only the people or groups you select are alerted as a first step.

They don’t even have to be at their workstation. With the PRTG apps for iOS and Android, everyone stays informed wherever they are.

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All-in-one monitoring software

There are so many monitoring software options out there that it’s easy to get overwhelmed. The issue with a lot of them is that they only cover one specific monitoring area. Instead of trying to manage multiple tools simultaneously, check out PRTG.

You want to monitor your bandwidth? Check. You need reliable hardware monitoring? Check. And if you want to integrate your entire OT network in addition to your IT infrastructure, PRTG can handle it, too.

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Simple installation and setup

Do you want to spend hours setting up your monitoring environment? We don’t. That is the reason why we have developed PRTG to be up and running in a matter of minutes.

With useful out-of-the-box settings, dashboards, and our convenient Auto-Discovery function, you can get your entire monitoring environment up and running in just a few clicks. You can fine-tune everything knowing that your infrastructure is already fully monitored.

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Out-of-the-box reports

Stakeholders have different needs when it comes to the reports they get from the monitoring team. Nothing new here. Also, not entirely new, bu­­t useful, is that PRTG not only collects all the data you want, but it also has built-in reporting so you can provide everyone involved with the right data from the very first second.

You can have your data prepared exactly as you need it for the presentation. All your decisions going forward will be based purely on the data you collect.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for cloud performance 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!

Cloud HTTP v2

The Cloud HTTP v2 sensor monitors the loading time of a web server via HTTP from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore,  Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia,  US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:

  • Average global loading time
  • Response time of the target server at the location
  • Response code of the target server at the location
  • If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
Cloud HTTP v2
Cloud HTTP v2

Cloud Ping v2

The Cloud Ping v2 sensor monitors the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ping times to its parent device from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore,  Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia,  US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:

  • Average global response time
  • Response time of the target server at the location
  • If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
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g_v2_sensor">Cloud Ping v2

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
AWS Cost
AWS Cost

AWS Alarm v2

The AWS Alarm v2 sensor monitors the status of an Amazon Web Services (AWS) alarm by reading its data from Amazon CloudWatch via the AWS API. It can show the following:

  • Alarm status
  • Metric on which the alarm is based
AWS Alarm v2
AWS Alarm v2

Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost

The Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost sensor monitors the cost in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:

  • Current period cost
  • Cost forecast
  • Used budget
  • Previous period cost
Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost
Microsoft Azure Subscription Cost

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

PRTG makes cloud performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent cloud platform issues.

Free download
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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 performance 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.

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baramundi

baramundi and PRTG create a secure, reliable and powerful IT infrastructure where you have everything under control - from the traffic in your firewall to the configuration of your clients.

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KnowledgeRiver

Combining their tools to a powerful solution for advanced analysis and automation, KnowledgeRiver and Paessler enable IT teams to ensure best performance for their infrastructure and networks.

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NetBrain

NetBrain

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

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG cloud performance monitoring solution

Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with your cloud infrastructure.

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Cloud Performance Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is cloud performance monitoring?

Cloud performance monitoring is different from monitoring your physical server on-premise. With cloud monitoring you track and analyze the status of your cloud infrastructure and applications. It helps you spot and fix problems that affect cloud performance, so everything runs smoothly and to yours and your users satisfaction.

Why is cloud performance monitoring important?

For years, the number of businesses that use cloud services like Google Cloud, AWS or Microsoft Azure has been increasing. In many ways it has changed the way you have to work, from DevOps engineer to people who are just starting with cloud-native development. Therefore monitoring the performance of your (public) cloud environment is the key to keep your cloud infrastructure efficient, reliable, and cost-effective. It lets you manage resources proactively, helps you to minimize downtime, and makes the overall user experience better.

What are the differences between AWS monitoring and Azure monitoring?

While both AWS and Azure monitoring have a lot in common, the specific metrics and tools used can end up being quite different. PRTG provides custom sensors and dashboards for each platform, so you can monitor things exactly the way you want to.

What impact do cloud performance issues have on your business?

Cloud performance issues can lead to increased latency and therefore slower speeds, more downtime, and higher costs. These issues can affect how happy users are, how much productive you and your users can work in the cloud and in the worst-case decrease profitability.

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

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