Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent unstable VPN connections, unauthorized access, and other issues.
Don't worry. We're not about to bombard you with a list of all the benefits of remote working. And no, we’re not an employee monitoring software designed to track employee activity or employee productivity. Paessler PRTG is all about keeping your network running smoothly, no matter where your team members are logging in from.
Suffice to say, more and more of your organization's staff (and, perhaps, you and your team members, too) might want to be remote workers. And this creates complications you don't have when everyone's in the office – from making it trickier to isolate issues to bandwidth bottlenecks to VPN access or network security issues like data breaches.
With PRTG network monitoring, it’s no longer a problem if you and your colleagues work from home.
Preconfigured sensors keep a close eye on every device in your network, whether it's connecting from the office or the other side of the world. You have a single source of truth for your entire network, plus the visibility and flexibility to ensure peak performance – even when you're checking in from the beach.
Your network may be complex, but setting up PRTG is a breeze. After downloading it, all you need to do is to define an IP range.
The auto-discovery will add every device in that range to your monitoring environment and assign suitable monitoring sensors.
Nip potential problems in the bud. Set the performance thresholds that suit your project management needs, and PRTG will alert you as soon as a parameter goes above or below.
This way, you can fix your work environment before it disrupts your network and the complaints of your remote teams start flooding in – and boost productivity of your remote workforce at the same time.
Think remote working makes monitoring more complicated, interrupts the workflow and therefore affects employee performance? Think again.
From mail servers to web servers, SANs, databases, virtual machines, and more, PRTG is a monitoring system that keeps an eye on whatever's connected to your network, wherever it is.
Know exactly what's going on in your network 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. PRTG monitors your network round the clock, regardless of work hours, and automatically alerts you if there are issues like fishy computer activity.
And, with our mobile apps, you can check data, get detailed reports, or react to suspicious user activity anytime, from anywhere.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking servers, applications, cloud services, and other network components. Show connection speed, memory, CPU load, 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 latency, unstable connections, and other network performance problems.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
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PRTG comes with more than 250 preconfigured sensor types, plus the option of creating your own. PRTG can track any value that could impact your network's speed, stability, and security, including:
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 SMTP&POP3 Round Trip sensor monitors the time it takes for an email to reach a Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) mailbox using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). It sends an email using the parent device (an SMTP server) and then scans a dedicated POP3 mailbox until the email comes in. It can show the following:
The RDP (Remote Desktop) sensor monitors remote desktop services such as Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) or Terminal Services Client. It can show the following:
The SNMP Cisco ASA VPN Users sensor monitors account connections to a VPN on a Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance. It can show the following:
The SNMP SonicWall VPN Traffic sensor monitors the traffic of an Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) VPN on a SonicWall Network Security Appliance (NSA) . It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent unstable VPN connections, unauthorized access, and other issues.
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.”
Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
Integrating monitoring results from PRTG into NetBrain maps makes the foundation for network automation.
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.
With ScriptRunner Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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PRTG is a proprietary software tool that takes the effort out of ensuring your network always performs at its best. Available for Windows- (and Linux!)based on-premises servers or as a cloud-hosted solution, it's capable of monitoring unlimited local and remotely-connected devices, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go. Unlike some remote employee monitoring tools, PRTG focuses purely on network performance and security, not on tracking individual employees during their workday.
PRTG uses a system of probes that constantly communicate with a central hub – the PRTG core server – via specific protocols. PRTG supports for example SNMP, WMI, Windows performance counters, flow technologies, including NetFlow, sFlow, IPFIX, and jFlow, SSH, HTTP and HTTPS, and many more. The central PRTG server then brings the collected data together in fully customizable, easy-to-read dashboards you can view from one single location.
Contrary to remote employee monitoring software, PRTG is designed to improve network visibility, not to monitor employee time or track productivity levels.
No, Paessler PRTG is not an employee monitoring software. While many organizations may look for solutions to track employee productivity, monitor employee activity, or use tracking software during work from home, PRTG focuses exclusively on network monitoring.
It provides IT teams with tools to ensure your organization's network remains secure and performs at its best, regardless of whether employees are working from the office or remotely. PRTG does not measure metrics like idle time, keystrokes, or engage in any form of productivity monitoring or productivity tracking. Instead, it’s built to monitor servers, devices, and network traffic, not your employees. Our priority is the health of your network, not the minutiae of your employees' workday activities.
PRTG is not intended for remote employee monitoring, as a time tracking software, or as an work-from-home employee computer tracking tool. Instead, it specializes in monitoring network performance, making sure your connections are secure, and optimizing bandwidth use. PRTG will not track employee time or a team’s performance, log keystrokes, or monitor social media activity, nor does it provide reports on productivity levels or assist in invoicing. With PRTG, you can focus on keeping your network robust and responsive, whether employees work from home or in the office.
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.
