Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent all kinds of network issues.
Website monitoring is critical when your online presence is your organization’s main source of revenue, especially for e-commerce brands. Or maybe it's the main point of contact with your customers – either way, it really matters.
But slow page speed and response times, and other availability and performance issues are typically a symptom, not the root cause. If you want to get to the bottom of what's causing the disruption, you need to go beyond speed tests and dig deeper into factors like RAM usage, server load and latency – maybe even SSL issues. All of these and other metrics that, despite working behind the scenes, can have a serious impact on your customers' user experience.
Paessler PRTG is designed to give you ultimate visibility with minimum effort. Track every aspect of your network — even if you have distributed monitoring locations — and make it easier for your IT team members to troubleshoot issues before the blue screen of death makes an unexpected appearance.
API monitoring. Bandwidth. Latency. Server monitoring. Website uptime monitoring. Incident management. Environmental monitoring. PRTG’s completeness is what makes it one of the best Pingdom alternatives for full-stack IT infrastructure monitoring.
Quick installation with automatic network discovery and smart setup for instant monitoring
Custom dashboard creation via drag & drop with easy-to-read visualized overviews
Different user interfaces for web, desktop, and mobile apps for monitoring on the go
Network of qualified implementation partners to support you with a smooth migration to PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the health, availability, and performance of your entire IT infrastructure. Show hardware parameters, application performance, network traffic, bandwidth usage, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot all kinds of issues in your network.
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
FEATURE | PRTG PRTG | Pingdom Pingdom |
|---|---|---|
One tool for your entire network | PRTG All monitoring features included | Pingdom Focused mainly on uptime and web performance monitoring, ping, and transaction checks |
Easy setup, intuitive monitoring | PRTG User-friendly interfaces for web, desktop, and mobile | Pingdom Web-based interface only |
Automatic network discover | PRTG Included | Pingdom Not supported |
Real-time alerts & notifications | PRTG Advanced, highly customizable alerting via different notification methods | Pingdom Supported but limited compared to PRTG |
Custom maps & dashboards | PRTG Custom dashboard creation via drag & drop | Pingdom Not supported |
Agentless monitoring | PRTG No need to install agents on the monitored systems | Pingdom Supported |
On-premises or cloud-based | PRTG Flexible deployment options available | Pingdom Cloud-based deployment only |
Enterprise version | PRTG Available | Pingdom Available but limited compared to PRTG |
Freeware version | PRTG Available for up to 100 sensors, free for life | Pingdom Free trial, but no free version |
Distributed network monitoring | PRTG Monitoring an unlimited number of remote locations included | Pingdom Not supported |
Server & application monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Limited to uptime, availability, and basic performance monitoring |
Network performance monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Limited to basic scanning; doesn't support dedicated monitoring |
Bandwidth monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Limited to basic scanning; doesn't support dedicated monitoring |
Network traffic analyzer | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra costs | Pingdom Limited to port and host scanning |
Cloud services monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Not supported |
Virtual infrastructure monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Not supported |
Storage resource monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Not supported |
Database monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Not supported |
Web performance monitoring | PRTG Out-of-the-box integration, no extra cost | Pingdom Supported |
Supports leading technologies | PRTG SNMP, flow protocols, packet sniffing, WMI, HTTP, ping, SQL, and much more | Pingdom Limited to HTTP, ping, and other |
Create your own scripts | PRTG Own PRTG API included for custom sensors and scripts | Pingdom Supported, but limited compared to PRTG |
Includes technical support | PRTG Expert support included, no extra costs | Pingdom Paid support only |
“All-around winning
network monitor”
“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”
“PRTG Network Monitor
is very hard to beat”
PRTG collects all the data that matters for optimizing network performance and puts you in charge of it. Tailor your monitoring environment to your exact requirements, maximize network performance, and step in to fix issues before they impact your colleagues (and make your IT team's workday more difficult).
No agents to install. No coding. Not even a wizard to follow. Key in an IP address range and PRTG will take it from there. Auto-Discovery finds every component within that range, adds it to your monitoring environment, assigns the appropriate sensors, and starts collecting data. You can customize it to suit or leave it as is and get on with the rest of your day.
Deploy it any way you want — on premises, in the cloud, or as a hybrid system. Access customizable status pages. Make your own dashboards, graphs, and other visualizations. And monitor every single hardware, software, and environmental metric imaginable. PRTG’s 250+ preconfigured sensors give you in-depth observability across your whole network.
Monitor your entire network round the clock. PRTG supports all major monitoring protocols, including Flow technologies, SSH, SNMP, and WMI. And, with real-time alerts based on custom thresholds, you have the peace of mind that nothing will fall through the cracks. PRTG alerts you about issues in app, by email, or via SMS, before they cause an outage.
Pay for what you need to monitor, not to access advanced features. PRTG's sensor-based pricing model gives you access to all of our network monitoring functionalities and expert support. Even on our free plan. Which means it's easy to work out exactly how much you'll pay and budget accordingly. No more unpleasant billing surprises.
You are interested to know if PRTG could be an alternative to your Pingdom implementation?
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
We also compared PRTG with other monitoring tools:
ThousandEyes specializes in digital experience monitoring but requires significant resources and expertise to manage. PRTG delivers comprehensive network monitoring with intuitive setup, transparent pricing, and unified infrastructure observability.
Graylog requires complex setup with steep learning curves and has limited monitoring capabilities. PRTG delivers comprehensive infrastructure monitoring with intuitive interfaces and transparent pricing.
Centreon is highly customizable but complex to configure. PRTG offers powerful monitoring, an intuitive interface, easy setup, and transparent sensor-based pricing that’s budget-friendly.
NetCrunch's node-based, policy-driven model can quickly become expensive. PRTG can flex beyond Windows-only environments, and its sensor-based pricing keeps costs transparent, predictable, and affordable.
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
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.
With the combination of PRTG and Insys, the monitoring specialist Paessler and the industrial gateway manufacturer INSYS icom offer a practical possibility to merge IT and OT.
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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Choose the PRTG Network Monitor subscription that's best for you
Choosing between Paessler PRTG and Pingdom depends on several factors, such as your specific network monitoring needs, budget, and technical resources available in your organization.
PRTG is ideal:
Pingdom might be your choice:
Do you need to keep an eye on your servers, network devices, bandwidth, applications, and other metrics?
If you want to prevent unplanned downtime, chances are that yes, you do. Keeping an eye on public status pages and other customer-facing assets is important. But what happens behind the scenes is just as critical to the user experience. So why compromise when you can do both, in a cost-effective way, from one place?
Both Pingdom and PRTG are intuitive and user-friendly to set up, but Pingdom may become more unwieldy over time. This is because it specializes in synthetic monitoring and real-time user monitoring. So, if you eventually decide you want to monitor other aspects of your IT infrastructure, you’ll need to either set up another monitoring service or use integrations. Either way, this will make management more complicated. And that’s leaving aside the constant juggle between monitoring environments.
PRTG on the other hand, lets you do it all from one place. And while setup is plug and play, you have the option of customizing everything to suit with easy-to-use drag-and-drop interfaces, comprehensive documentation, and friendly technical support from our experienced team.
Pingdom’s pricing is based on the number of uptime checks, transactions, RUM sessions, and SMS alerts, or on the number of page views, if you need real-time user monitoring. The features and functionalities you have access to also depend on what plan you’re on.
PRTG, by contrast, charges by the sensor, and all functionalities are included in every tier, even our free forever plan. This means you can start for free and only pay for the metrics you need to monitor, not for volume or to access specific features. Costs will still go up the more complex your needs become, but PRTG’s pricing model makes them much easier to predict.
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.
You are interested to know if PRTG could be an alternative to your Pingdom implementation?
