Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent network security, performance, and network connectivity issues.
Organizations depend on Microsoft services and applications for daily operations. Yet, most IT admins find themselves struggling to get Microsoft products to talk to other systems and applications. Paessler PRTG, your Microsoft network watcher, eases the lines of communication, ensuring multi-vendor support, detailed monitoring, and a clear line of sight on connected systems.
With Microsoft at the heart of your business, continuity is paramount. One service failing to start can mean the complete failure of a client application.
With PRTG, you have an immediate overview of all Microsoft devices and services, including Active Directory, Microsoft 365, Windows Server, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, and Hyper-V. When an issue does arise, you have the visibility you need to quickly locate the source.
Manual network discovery can be a large source of stress for IT teams. It takes a lot of time and effort to scan, identify, and configure the monitoring for each new device.
PRTG reduces stress levels by drastically reducing the time, effort, and errors often involved in manual discovery. Let the automatic network discovery scan a range of IP addresses in your subnet and add all Microsoft network devices, services, and programs to your monitoring setup.
When your environment has several servers, devices, applications, and processes to monitor, IT teams often use multiple monitoring solutions, each with its own interface. Not so with PRTG.
Our all-in-one network monitoring tool visualizes all areas of your IT infrastructure from a single dashboard. What’s more: with the PRTG Map Editor, you can easily create custom dashboards and Microsoft network topology maps that exactly match your requirements.
Skip the time-consuming manual configurations that often come with new network monitoring software. PRTG Microsoft network monitoring is well known for being easy to set up.
With over 250 preconfigured sensor types, including the possibility to create custom sensors for more specific requirements, you can quickly cover a wide range of monitoring needs. All it takes is a few clicks. Really.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability, health, security, and performance of your Microsoft servers, applications, services, and virtual machines. Show CPU load, bandwidth, network traffic, processing speed, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in graphic maps and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot on-premises, cloud, and virtual networks.
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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!
The Microsoft 365 Service Status sensor accesses the Microsoft API to monitor the overall status of all services of a Microsoft 365 subscription. It can show the following:
The Hyper-V Virtual Machine sensor monitors a virtual machine that runs on a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:
The Microsoft Azure SQL Database sensor monitors the metrics of an Azure SQL Database (single database or elastic pool) in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
The Exchange Backup (PowerShell) sensor monitors backups of an Exchange server. It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
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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.
Integrating monitoring results from PRTG into NetBrain maps makes the foundation for network automation.
With ScriptRunner Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent network security, performance, and network connectivity issues.
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Microsoft environments, including servers and computers using Windows operating systems, are often the core of IT infrastructure. Various vendor products are attached, from Cisco routers, Dell servers, and HPE switches, to Fortinet firewalls and many others. While some systems and devices aren’t critical, such as printers, others, such as email servers and databases, are essential for business continuity.
Microsoft network monitoring watches each device and application around the clock, immediately notifying stakeholders when a threshold is reached. Real-time monitoring and alerts allow for faster response times, early issue detection, higher security, and better performance.
Apples and oranges, friend. Apples and oranges. Microsoft’s monitoring solutions, such as SCOM or Azure Monitor for your Microsoft Azure network, provide deep integration for purely Microsoft networks. But if you have other vendor products (and what environment doesn’t, really?), you’d still want to have PRTG for more comprehensive network monitoring. This means a less complex environment, less room for error and missed issues, and faster response times.
Yes! PRTG has several sensors specifically designed to monitor Microsoft products and services, using Microsoft-specific technology such as WMI and Windows performance counters next to standard protocols like SNMP, HTTP, or REST API connections. These sensors allow IT administrators to monitor the health, performance, and availability of critical infrastructure components.
PRTG supports Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016, Windows 11, or Windows 10. Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 work, but are not officially supported anymore.
Yes, PRTG can also monitor Linux and other Unix-based infrastructure, using SNMP and SSH as standard monitoring technology.
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.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
