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Website Availability Monitoring with PRTG

Monitor your website uptime, not your burnout rate

  • Reduce stress with in-depth details of your website’s uptime and performance
  • Catch issues as they happen and keep calm with top-tier availability analysis
  • Keep an eye on your website’s availability from different locations around the world
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PRTG website availability monitoring: What you will find on this page

Table of content
  • Keep cool and carry on with PRTG website availability monitoring
  • What website uptime monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your website availability monitoring tool
  • Check worldwide website availability with our preconfigured sensors
  • Website availability monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes website availability monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your website's availability and performance.

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Keep cool and carry on with PRTG website availability monitoring

Constant worry about your website’s performance can be exhausting, but it doesn’t have to be. Website availability monitoring with Paessler PRTG takes the pressure off IT with comprehensive tools to track uptime. Detect issues early, maintain smooth operations, and focus on other important tasks without the stress. Here’s how PRTG can help you de-stress.

Constantly keep revenue coming in

For e-commerce websites, every minute of downtime can translate to significant lost sales. Customers unable to access the site may abandon their purchases and go to competitors.

PRTG website availability monitoring keeps the revenue coming in by ensuring your website stays online and accessible, preventing potential losses and maintaining customer

Boost and improve your brand reputation

Frequent or prolonged outages can harm a brand’s reputation. Customers may see the company as unreliable or unprofessional.

Website availability monitoring comes to the rescue with real-time alerts and detailed insights, enabling you to quickly resolve issues and maintain a reliable online presence.

Make “business continuity” a living motto

Downtime can halt business operations and affect internal processes, communications, and service delivery.

PRTG prevents life from taking unexpected turns by providing continuous monitoring and proactive issue detection, ensuring your business operations run smoothly without unexpected disruptions.

Increase the effectiveness of your SEO efforts

Search engines like Google take website availability into consideration when ranking pages. Frequent downtime can negatively impact search rankings, reducing visibility and organic traffic.

PRTG helps you maintain optimal uptime, improving your search engine rankings and driving more organic traffic to your site.

Integrate with your legacy backup infrastructure

Seamless integration is key for 24/7 website availability monitoring. PRTG is flexible, allowing integration with existing redundancy and failover solutions.

Whether you use load balancers, backup servers, or cloud-based failover services, PRTG can monitor and manage them for a cohesive and effective failover strategy.

What website uptime monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your website’s uptime and performance. Show content availability, page speed, changes to the website, the CPU and memory usage of your web servers, SSL certificate 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 website issues quickly and effectively.

Custom PRTG dashboard for web servers

Custom PRTG dashboard for web servers

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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 website environment

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Live traffic data graph in PRTG

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

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IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring

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“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

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“PRTG Network Monitor 
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5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your website availability monitoring tool

Customize your monitoring solutions

PRTG lets you tailor your monitoring setup to match your website's specific needs. You can customize thresholds, alerts, and reports to focus on the metrics that matter most to you. Make sure you have the information you need to maintain peak website performance.

Get proactive, actionable alerts

PRTG’s advanced alerting system notifies you immediately via SMS, email, push notification, and other methods of any issues detected with their website. Address potential problems before they escalate, lowering the risk of prolonged downtime and maintaining a smooth end user experience.

Easily set up your availability monitoring

PRTG's intuitive and user-friendly interface makes it easy for users to set up and manage their monitoring system. Even if you don’t have much technical knowledge, you can configure and use PRTG effectively. This usability makes it accessible to a wide range of users.

It comes with the “scalability” ability

PRTG scales to meet your needs, making it suitable for websites of all sizes. Whether you have a small personal blog or you’re the systems admin of a large e-commerce site, PRTG can grow with your business. Continuous, reliable monitoring evolves with your needs.

Keep sensitive data quiet

PRTG helps users quickly identify and respond to potential security threats. Sensitive data stays protected, and any breaches or risks are detected early so your website is more secure. Prevent data leaks and unauthorized access, maintaining the confidentiality of your information.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for worldwide website availability

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!

HTTP v2

The HTTP v2 sensor monitors a web server. It can show the following:

  • Number of bytes received
  • Web page or element loading time
  • Response code of the target server
HTTP v2
HTTP 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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HTTP Advanced

Cloud Ping v2

The Cloud Ping v2 sensor monitors the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) ping times to its parent device from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore,  Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia,  US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:

  • Average global response time
  • Response time of the target server at the location
  • If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
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Cloud HTTP v2

The Cloud HTTP v2 sensor monitors the loading time of a web server via HTTP from different locations worldwide (Asia Pacific: Singapore,  Asia Pacific: Sydney, Europe: Ireland, US East: Northern Virginia,  US West: Northern California) via the PRTG Cloud. It can show the following:

  • Average global loading time
  • Response time of the target server at the location
  • Response code of the target server at the location
  • If the PRTG Cloud query was successful or not
Cloud HTTP v2
Cloud HTTP v2

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

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

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

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”Adopting PRTG has been like going from being in the dark to being in the light. Before, we had limited visibility into what was happening in the infrastructure and in the network. Now, however, thanks to the comprehensive dashboard and real-time notifications, we receive constant updates on the status of facilities and services, and our way of working has gone from passive to proactive.”

Luca Meneghesso, Senior IT infrastructure and Security Specialist
Banca Profilo

”GESAC increasingly focuses on innovation to improve the quality of services offered and the experience of passengers handled every day by Naples Airport. Thanks to PRTG, we finally have unified, automatic, and continuous monitoring of the airport network and can guarantee quick and timely interventions.”

Domenico Ciervo, GESAC ICT Manager
Naples International Airport

”As an international company, PRTG is ideal for us. If something went down half way across the world, we wouldn’t be woken up – we can rely on PRTG to identify the problem and alert us before it occurs – enabling the right person, in the right time zone to resolve the problem. At the end of the day, if we’re to provide an internal network experience for our employees that meets expectations, we need a tool like PRTG to be successful.”

Barry Kelly, Systems Engineer
Skyscanner

“I would recommend PRTG because it has helped us significantly improve service uptime by highlighting important alerts that would otherwise result in a system failure or service disruption if action was not taken. Thanks to PRTG, we can ensure that The Ritz London’s network and IT systems are five-star, just like the hotel.”

Richard Isted, IT Manager
The Ritz London

Your website 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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Gartner peer insights

“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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Rittal

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.

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Integrating monitoring results from PRTG into NetBrain maps makes the foundation for network automation.

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With ScriptRunner Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.

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PRTG makes website availability monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent issues with your website's availability and performance.

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Website Availability Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is website availability?

Website availability is the amount of time that a website or service can be accessed by users. It is usually calculated as a percentage, and ideally, should be as close to 100% as possible. The “five nines” – or 99.999%, correspond to 5 minutes of downtime per year and is a value worth pursuing.

Why is website availability monitoring important?

Website availability monitoring is crucial because it makes sure your website stays online and accessible to users. PRTG’s comprehensive website monitoring functionalities help you quickly detect and address issues without the hassle of getting false positives, minimizing their business impact.

How does PRTG monitor website availability?

PRTG uses various sensors to monitor website availability. These sensors check the website’s response time, uptime, and performance metrics. Just add a website endpoint to PRTG, specify its IP address and/or DNS name, and add suitable sensors to it, then start monitoring. If any issues are detected, PRTG sends real-time alerts to the relevant stakeholders.

Can PRTG help improve website performance?

Yes, PRTG can help improve website performance by providing insights into response times, load times, and other performance metrics. By analyzing this data, you can identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring a faster and more reliable website.

Can I monitor multiple websites with PRTG?

Yes, PRTG can help improve website performance by leveraging web server monitoring, web application monitoring, web transaction monitoring, and SSL monitoring, providing insights into response times, load times, and other performance metrics. By analyzing this data, you can identify and address performance bottlenecks, ensuring a faster and more reliable website.

Does PRTG offer synthetic monitoring or real user monitoring?

No, unfortunately, PRTG does not provide these options. Check out our many other website monitoring services, however.

What kind of reports can PRTG generate?

PRTG can generate detailed reports on website availability, performance metrics, uptime statistics, and more. These reports can be customized to meet your specific needs and scheduled to be delivered automatically, helping you stay informed about your website’s status.

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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