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Server Availability Monitoring with PRTG

Ensure high availability of your servers and minimize server downtime

  • Immediately detect problems when a server goes down or becomes unresponsive
  • Get actionable insights into server performance and health metrics
  • Optimize your servers with the best configurations for balanced loads & resource efficiency
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PRTG server availability monitoring: What you will find on this page

Table of content
  • Make rapid response your IT team’s mantra
  • What server availability monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 5 reasons to choose PRTG as your server availability monitoring tool
  • Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for server availability monitoring
  • Server Availability Monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes server availability and performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent performance issues with your servers before they escalate.

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Make rapid response your IT team’s mantra

A strong IT management strategy requires comprehensive oversight of your IT infrastructure. Server availability monitoring with Paessler PRTG does just that. Complete visibility into your servers (as well as other network devices) and immediate notifications give your IT team rapid response capabilities, an ability that is critical to minimize the effects of bottlenecks or even outages.

Get great at problem prevention

“Prevention is better than cure,” goes the saying, and PRTG server monitoring is your answer to preventative maintenance. PRTG provides round-the-clock, 24/7 monitoring, allowing IT teams to identify and address problems before they escalate into serious issues.

Monitor your server availability to identify patterns, and be notified when warning signs appear, such as high CPU usage, that can lead to server downtime if not addressed.

Take service quality to the next level

Part of delivering on your Quality of Service (QoS) promise is ensuring your servers are consistently available. Monitoring your QoS status is especially critical for businesses with customer-facing applications and servers.

Our server availability monitoring software elevates your QoS delivery by providing the necessary data you need for consistent server availability and performance.

Solidify the continuity of your business

Adding failover systems and data backups to your network can save your business, but only if they function correctly. PRTG’s network monitoring verifies that your redundancies can seamlessly take over if the primary server fails.

And, PRTG helps you build stronger disaster recovery strategies to quickly resume normal operations if an outage should happen. 

Build compliance into every action

Responsible management includes proper documentation and reporting for regulatory compliance, as well as effective SLA management. Server availability monitoring helps you meet contractual uptime commitments, creates data logs, and records system uptime.

In this way, PRTG provides a one-stop solution to both comply with industry regulations and preserve customer relationships.

Reduce stress and keep your sanity

Server uptime monitoring can be a thankless job, full of time-intensive manual processes. On the other hand, availability monitoring can also be a soft “set it and forget it” action with PRTG’s monitoring capabilities.

Automatic problem detection, actionable insights that allow future planning, and more turn a thankless job into a “thank you.” Take the stress out of monitoring your servers and use your team’s time for tasks that require human power.

What server availability monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability and health of your servers. Show server uptime, performance trends, operational status, 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 server availability 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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Custom PRTG dashboard for hardware monitoring

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

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5 reasons to choose PRTG as your server availability monitoring tool

You want to customize your alerts

We hear you. PRTG lets you set up custom alerts based on specific thresholds that you set. Trackable metrics include CPU load, memory usage, network bandwidth, and more.

When these thresholds are reached, PRTG will immediately notify the designated stakeholder in the manner you choose, including email, SMS, or push notifications.

You want to understand data fast

PRTG’s intuitive dashboard is one of our bragging rights. Easily see your network’s health and performance in real time, monitoring server uptime, performance trends, and status, from a central view.

Visualizations are easy to understand, helping you quickly understand overall network behavior and pinpoint the source of a problem when it arises.

You want to configure less and do more

PRTG has you covered. More than 250 preconfigured sensors and device templates help you come online faster and with less hassle.

Templates and sensors can be deployed in just a few clicks, saving time in the initial setup. It also ensures that you’re monitoring all aspects of your servers from the first day.

You want a flexible and scalable solution

PRTG is designed to scale with your business and is useful in both small and enterprise environments.

Whether you’re monitoring two servers or two thousand, PRTG can handle the demand.

You want multi-platform support

No problem. We know that today’s modern IT environment can include multiple platforms, server types, and operating systems, and PRTG is up to the task.

A versatile tool for diverse IT networks, PRTG monitors a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and others.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for server availability 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!

Ping v2

The Ping v2 sensor sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request ("ping") from the probe system to the parent device to monitor its availability. It can show the following:

• Response time

• Packet loss

• Target status

• Minimum and maximum ping time

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Ping v2

SNMP Uptime v2

The SNMP Uptime v2 sensor monitors the uptime of a device. It can show the following:

  • Downtime
  • System uptime
SNMP Uptime v2
SNMP Uptime v2

Windows System Uptime

The Windows System Uptime sensor monitors the uptime of a Windows system via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:

  • Downtime
  • System uptime
Windows System Uptime
Windows System Uptime

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 server availability and performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent performance issues with your servers before they escalate.

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“From a server perspective, we're monitoring all of the key components of our service such as CPU usage, RAM disk space, the Windows services that it's running, and network connectivity of that server. In terms of networks, we’re monitoring all of our switches, firewalls, and access points. It’s really useful to be able to easily pull performance metrics from the PRTG dashboard.”

Ollie Kerslake, Infrastructure Lead
Riverford Organic Farmers

“The tool has given us greater control over all types of devices connected to the network (switches, IP telephony, security cameras, IoT, WiFi) that previously remained opaque when dealing with service incidents. This has improved our ability to diagnose and resolve problems, which has translated into greater efficiency and a better user experience in both internal and public services.”

Jordi Tolosà Bel, New Technologies Technician
Vinaroz City Council

“Our objective was to be able to monitor the health of our most critical servers containing data and applications, but also the flows and bandwidth between headquarters, our 50 servers in the cloud and the 15 servers at our production sites. For us, it is essential to have a proactive approach to understand where the weaknesses of the IT system are to be able to improve them.”

Marc Boullier, CIO
Carambar & Co

Your server availability 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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What does this mean for you?

  • Easy integration of HPE hardware and software with PRTG
  • State-of-the-art features for monitoring your HPE environment
  • Expert technical support around your HPE monitoring setup

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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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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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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG server availability monitoring solution

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

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Server Availability Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is server availability monitoring?

Server availability monitoring is the process of continually checking the health and status of your severs. This ensures they are accessible and functioning correctly.

How does PRTG monitor server uptime?

PRTG uses sensors that can ping servers, track response times, and utilize protocols such as HTTP, SSH, SNMP, WMI, and others to ensure servers are responding correctly. If a server doesn’t respond when pinged, PRTG immediately sends an alert to the administrator.

What types of servers can PRTG monitor?

PRTG can monitor various types of servers including web servers, SQL servers, file servers, mail servers, and virtual servers across different platforms such as Windows, Linux, and macOS.

Can PRTG monitor cloud-based servers?

Yes, PRTG can monitor servers hosted on cloud platforms such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. This includes virtual machines, cloud storage, and other cloud services.

Can PRTG predict server failures?

PRTG can help predict server failures by monitoring trends and performance metrics like CPU load, memory usage, and disk space. If these metrics show unusual patterns, it could indicate a potential issue, allowing administrators to intervene before an actual failure occurs.

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

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