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IaaS Monitoring with PRTG

Keep a 24/7 eye on your infrastructure in the cloud when using IaaS – for cloud providers & companies

  • Optimize the performance and availability of cloud applications
  • Quickly detect cloud service issues and infrastructure bottlenecks
  • Maximize customer satisfaction and enhance end-user productivity
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PRTG IaaS monitoring: What you will find on this page

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  • How IaaS monitoring with PRTG helps cloud providers & companies
  • What IaaS observability looks like in PRTG
  • 4 reasons why to choose PRTG as your IaaS monitoring tool
  • 3 business benefits of IaaS monitoring with PRTG
  • The cloud-based alternative for monitoring IaaS: PRTG Hosted Monitor
  • IaaS monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes IaaS monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues in your cloud infrastructure.

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How IaaS monitoring with PRTG helps cloud providers & companies

Quickly identify bottlenecks, dips in performance, and service issues that may impair your network.

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IaaS monitoring for cloud providers

Paessler PRTG’s IaaS monitoring is essential for cloud providers since they are responsible for hardware (and troubleshooting), as well as optimizing the power supply and cooling systems. In addition, they must ensure their cloud resources are always available.

As a cloud provider, you can keep a 24/7 eye on all the components of an IT infrastructure:

  • Servers, firewalls, routers, and switches
  • Database instances
  • Virtual machines
  • Temperature, humidity, and power supply
  • Fire protection and other physical security technology
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IaaS monitoring for companies

Even if you outsource your IT infrastructure to the cloud, you should still keep an eye on the performance and availability of your applications and services. Positive user experiences are important for keeping customers happy and increasing business productivity among employees.

IaaS monitoring with PRTG helps IT teams to:

  • Ensure operating systems, software, and applications are running smoothly
  • Manage user access rights to IT resources
  • Optimize the security of the entire network
  • Guarantee compliance with data protection standards & regulations

What IaaS observability looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your IaaS cloud platform and other cloud computing resources. Show availability, network traffic, cloud security stats, application performance, 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 all kinds of issues in your cloud environment.

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

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“PRTG Network Monitor 
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4 reasons why to choose PRTG as your IaaS monitoring tool

PRTG makes data secure, prevents system crashes & downtime, increases customer satisfaction, and saves money.

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Monitor every aspect of your infrastructure

PRTG’s IaaS monitor keeps a continuous eye on all components of your infrastructure from one central server. This includes network, storage devices, physical and virtual servers, and on-premises and cloud applications.

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Use with components from any manufacturer

If your infrastructure stems from a variety of different manufacturers, then PRTG is your best choice. PRTG is a cross-vendor, all-in-one network monitoring tool that keeps an eye on components such as systems, network devices, services, and applications, regardless of the manufacturer or provider.

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Enjoy intuitive & customizable user interfaces

PRTG is easy to install and set up, plus simple and intuitive to use. It consolidates data from any environment and presents this data in structured, customizable dashboards. It’s easy to view and analyze monitoring data, identify problem areas, and increase employee productivity.

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Customize your alerting system & notifications

PRTG’s customizable notifications help IT teams respond quickly to errors and prevent downtime and other failures. If monitored values fall outside your specified thresholds, PRTG sends alerts in real time via your preferred notification method, including email, SMS, and more.

 

3 business benefits of IaaS monitoring with PRTG

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Improve your IT system’s reliability

PRTG monitors your cloud infrastructure around the clock, and continuously keeps you up to date on the status and performance of all your systems.

You can promptly identify issues before users notice them and improve the quality of your customer service. If a system crashes, you can quickly determine the cause and fix the problem.

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Optimize resources and save money

The monitoring data that PRTG collects can help you determine when your network is under heavy strain and when demand drops. If servers are underutilized, then you can use them for other tasks.

PRTG lets you optimize your resources and only invest in new resources when it’s absolutely necessary.

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Ensure the security of your system

An infrastructure monitoring service like PRTG provides you with insight into critical performance indicators which enable you to detect network attacks, suspicious activity, and much more.

As a result, you can immediately respond to threats and quickly take measures to prevent issues that affect security.

Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG IaaS monitoring solution

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

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

compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

The cloud-based alternative for monitoring IaaS: PRTG Hosted Monitor

Keep your costs low and avoid infrastructure-related problems with PRTG Hosted Monitor, our cloud-based monitoring alternative.

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Automation of routine tasks

PRTG Hosted Monitor automates the monitoring of cloud-based infrastructures (e.g., IaaS), and relieves IT teams of routine and recurring tasks.

The hours you’ll save can be used for other important tasks, such as capacity planning. Monitoring with software is always more efficient than doing it yourself: PRTG IaaS monitoring runs in the background – 24/7 and without a hitch.

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Hosting & maintenance by Paessler

PRTG Hosted Monitor isn’t installed in your network, but hosted by Paessler and runs in the cloud. That means you won’t have to worry about updating or maintenance since we install all PRTG updates ourselves.

Potential security flaws are also resolved at once. Since we perform regular backups, your data is always safe – and never gets lost.

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Reduce costs with flexible subscriptions

PRTG Hosted Monitor allows you to upgrade (or downgrade) your subscription as your IT infrastructure grows or your need for IT resources declines.

Choose among different subscription models to continually optimize costs as needed. This lets you control your IT infrastructure as well as your IT budget.

“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.”

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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.”

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Resolvit

Your IaaS 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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By joining the Meraki Partners ecosystem, Paessler has become one of the technology providers that is entitled to lead the pack in integrating Cisco Meraki’s cloud networking platform with their solutions.

What does this mean for you?

  • Easy integration of Cisco Meraki network devices with PRTG
  • State-of-the-art features for monitoring your Meraki environment
  • Expert technical support around your Cisco Meraki monitoring setup

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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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Rhebo and PRTG offer a comprehensive monitoring solution for IT and OT environments: from condition monitoring through to anomaly and threat detection.

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG IaaS monitoring solution

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

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IaaS Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is IaaS?

Cloud computing involves the provision of IT resources via the Internet. Depending on what’s in the cloud, a distinction is made between:

  • SaaS (Software as a Service): cloud-based execution of software applications.
  • PaaS (Platform as a Service): a cloud-based platform for the developers of applications.
  • IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service): the provision of all the IT resources required for a data center in the cloud.

An IaaS infrastructure in the cloud has all the components of an on-premises IT infrastructure, including network devices (routers, switches, etc.), databases, backup and storage systems, virtual machines, and more.

What are the benefits of IaaS?

More and more small to medium-sized companies still in the take-off stages (or with fluctuating needs for networks, servers, or storage systems) are doing away with physical data centers and expensive hardware. Instead, they’re opting for infrastructures in the cloud. There’s a good reason for this: IaaS solutions are extremely cost-efficient.

You only use (and pay for) the resources you need. What’s more, the service provider handles the maintenance of the cloud-based infrastructure. This can save lots of money – not to mention time and stress.

Nevertheless, you’ll still be responsible for installing and maintaining the software. But this can also be simplified with IaaS monitoring.

What are IaaS monitoring tools?

IaaS monitoring tools are software applications that monitor your IT infrastructure in the cloud. If you opt for IaaS, a comprehensive and all-in-one monitoring tool like PRTG will let you conveniently monitor your cloud infrastructure – without compromising on performance, flexibility, or features.

Which IT companies can I monitor?

For on-premises systems, you can monitor all the regular health and performance indicators. With cloud-based systems, however, the respective service provider may restrict access to some of the values you wish to monitor.

For each system, draw up a list of values to be monitored. This list will depend on your requirements (and expectations) with regard to the performance of the various infrastructure components.

Here are some of the values that can be measured with infrastructure monitoring tools:

  • CPU load
  • Number of connection requests
  • Speed of execution of transactions
  • Use of hard disk space
  • Network latency
  • Network traffic
  • And much more
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.

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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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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 your IaaS environment 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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