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Response Time Monitoring with PRTG

Track, troubleshoot, and test your network's efficiency

  • Keep colleagues and customers happy with fast response times
  • Get immediate notifications for unexpected response time spikes
  • Identify and resolve response time bottlenecks rapidly
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PRTG response time monitoring: What you will find on this page

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  • Optimize network response times and enhance the performance of your network
  • What response time monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 5 reasons to choose PRTG as your response time monitoring tool
  • Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for response time monitoring
  • Response Time Monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes response time monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent troublesome network speed and latency issues.

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Optimize network response times and enhance the performance of your network

Keep your organization on track and your network rock-steady when you leverage our response time monitoring tool. Paessler PRTG focuses on maintaining optimal performance across your servers, websites, and databases by closely monitoring their response times and informing you of any changes immediately, in multiple ways.

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Keep tabs on response times of your entire network

Get insight into the response times of all your critical network components from a single dashboard. Monitor, for example, the loading time of your website, web server, and web applications from all over the world, the amount of time needed to execute database queries, or the read and write speed of your hard disks.

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Conduct long-term analyses for in-depth insights

Go beyond surface-level monitoring with PRTG's capability for long-term response time analyses. Uncover trends and patterns in your network performance over extended time periods with a deep dive into your response time data.

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Get immediate alerts for performance drops

Stay informed with instant alerts from PRTG in the event of performance degradation. Sudden spikes in response time or gradual declines in server efficiency will be easy to spot, giving you the tools to quickly mitigate these issues.

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Identify and resolve network bottlenecks effectively

Pinpoint and address bottlenecks in your network with PRTG. A growing network doesn’t have to be a pain point. By identifying areas of congestion or delay, you can make informed decisions about network upgrades or configuration changes to enhance overall performance.

What response time monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking device, application, and server response time. Show peak response times, average response times, and other key performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot slow network speed and other network performance issues.

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Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure

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Start response time 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 response time monitoring tool

Measure response times across your network

PRTG provides comprehensive monitoring of response times for your entire IT infrastructure, including servers, websites, and databases. This broad coverage ensures you have a complete picture of your network's performance.

Gain valuable insights with detailed response time data

With PRTG, you can delve into detailed, historical response time data of your network components. This information is crucial for understanding the health and efficiency of your network and making data-driven decisions.

Stay informed on-the-go with mobile network monitoring

Our PRTG apps for iOS and Android allow you to monitor your network's response times from anywhere. This flexibility is essential for modern IT professionals who need to stay informed even when away from the office.

Benefit from easy setup and user-friendly interface

Setting up PRTG for response time monitoring is straightforward, and its user-friendly interface makes ongoing monitoring a hassle-free process. Give your team the time to address issues instead of dealing with more convoluted monitoring solutions.

Create custom dashboards for your convenience

Get an overview of response times and other key performance indicators of your network. Customize your dashboards to show only the data you need so you can have the information that most informs your critical IT infrastructure decisions – a quick glance is all it takes.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for response time 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

HTTP Advanced

The HTTP Advanced sensor monitors the source code of a web page using HTTP. It supports authentication, content checks, and other advanced parameters. It can show the following:

  • Number of bytes received
  • Download speed
  • Loading time
  • Time to the first byte
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SIP Options Ping

The SIP Options Ping sensor monitors the connectivity to a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) server using SIP options "ping". The sensor sends auth and options requests to the SIP server. It can show the following:

  • Response code
  • Response time
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SIP Options Ping

Common SaaS

The Common SaaS sensor monitors the availability of several Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. It can show the following:

  • Available services
  • Response time of the SaaS provider (Bing, Dropbox, Facebook, GitHub, Google Apps, Office 365, Salesforce, Twitter, YouTube)
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Common SaaS

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 response time monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent troublesome network speed and latency issues.

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“PRTG helps us to keep control of our IT by making issues visible immediately – and everywhere. We always have an eye on the performance and availability of our IT and can react in time if any failures occur. On a long-term perspective, the monitoring data helps us with capacity planning so that we can deliver the required resources for our own systems as well as for our customers, without wasting money on unwarranted redundancies.”

Stein Erik Høybakk, Senior Network Engineer
TAFJORD

“All our production and business processes depend on SAP. But, of course, IT and production systems also play a crucial role in securing these processes. By incorporating SAP, production, and IT into one centralized monitoring system, we can quickly detect critical drops in performance and identify the causes of these issues. In fact, thanks to PRTG and itesys, this couldn’t be any easier.”

Andreas Schmidt, Senior Systems Engineer
Truma

“Any downtime could be detrimental to our customers. We also strive to provide the best possible service to our customers. PRTG allows us to see the health and performance of the network. Using these measurements we can make decisions on how to repair a piece of equipment before it fails and causes a service interruption.”

James Ott Jr., Communications System Technician and IT Administrator
Federal Radio

Your response time 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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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG response time monitoring solution

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

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Response Time Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is response time monitoring?

Response time monitoring is a performance measurement practice that assesses the time it takes for a system or application to respond to a user's request. It involves tracking the duration between the initiation of a request and the receipt of the corresponding response.

What are the benefits of monitoring response time?

Monitoring response times is crucial for identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing system efficiency, and ensuring a positive user experience as faster response times lead to improved satisfaction and engagement and reduce downtime and disruptions of business operations.

Can PRTG monitor the response times of applications as well as network devices?

Absolutely, PRTG is capable of monitoring the response times of various applications in addition to network devices, providing a holistic view of your network's performance.

Does PRTG support monitoring of response times for cloud services?

Yes, PRTG can monitor the response times of cloud-based services, ensuring comprehensive coverage of both on-premises and cloud environments.

How does PRTG help in optimizing the response times of my network?

PRTG identifies the root causes of slow response times, such as high CPU load or bandwidth bottlenecks, enabling targeted actions to optimize network performance.

Can I customize the threshold for response time alerts in PRTG?

Yes, you can customize the threshold values for alerts in PRTG, allowing you to define what constitutes an abnormal response time for your specific network environment.

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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