VMware Horizon Monitoring with PRTG

A VMware Horizon monitoring tool is specialized software that tracks the performance, availability, and health of your VMware Horizon VDI environment. It monitors connection servers, desktop pools, virtual desktops, and user sessions to ensure optimal performance. PRTG offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities for VMware Horizon view deployments, allowing you to track metrics like active sessions, resource utilization, and logon times through a centralized dashboard.

PRTG monitors horizon connection servers by tracking key performance metrics including CPU usage, memory consumption, and network traffic. You can set up alerts for when connection servers experience high load or become unresponsive. PRTG also monitors the communication between connection servers and other components like Active Directory, vCenter, and ESX hosts. This comprehensive monitoring helps prevent authentication issues and ensures users can connect to their virtual desktops without interruption.

Yes, PRTG can monitor both PCoIP protocol performance and RDS hosts in VMware Horizon deployments. For PCoIP, PRTG tracks metrics like bandwidth usage, latency, and packet loss to ensure optimal remote display protocol performance. For RDS (Remote Desktop Services) hosts, PRTG monitors server health, session counts, and resource utilization. This monitoring capability helps identify performance bottlenecks in the display protocol or RDS infrastructure that might affect user experience.

PRTG provides detailed insights into horizon user sessions by tracking metrics such as logon duration, session length, and resource consumption. You can monitor the number of active users per desktop pool and identify users experiencing performance issues. PRTG also allows help desk teams to correlate user complaints with actual system performance data, making troubleshooting more efficient. This user-centric monitoring approach helps maintain high satisfaction levels among VDI users.

Yes, PRTG complements vRealize operations by providing additional monitoring perspectives. While vRealize Operations offers deep VMware-specific analytics, PRTG provides broader infrastructure monitoring including network devices, storage systems, and non-VMware components. PRTG can consume data from vRealize through API connections, allowing you to create a unified monitoring solution. This integration helps operations managers maintain visibility across multi-cloud environments that include both VMware and non-VMware resources.

PRTG offers comprehensive vSphere monitoring capabilities that track the health and performance of ESX hosts, vCenter servers, and virtual machines running Horizon components. It monitors CPU, memory, disk, and network metrics for all infrastructure components. PRTG also tracks datastore performance and capacity, which is crucial for VDI environments. By monitoring the entire vSphere stack, PRTG helps identify whether Horizon performance issues stem from the underlying virtualization layer or the Horizon components themselves.

Yes, PRTG can collect and analyze event logs from Windows-based Horizon components and syslog data from Linux-based components in your VDI environment. It can monitor the event database for critical errors and warnings, allowing for automated alerts when issues occur. PRTG supports monitoring of app volumes, Oracle databases, and other components that generate logs within the Horizon ecosystem. This centralized log monitoring function helps identify the root cause of issues by correlating events across multiple systems using their IP address identifiers.

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.