Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent errors, data security issues, suspicious activity, insider threats, and other problems with employee computers.
Have dedicated workstations you use for 3D design, complex simulations, or other CPU-heavy tasks?
Seeing as a small glitch could wipe out months of work, every sysadmin worth their salt (read, you) has a monitoring system in place to keep an eye on user activity like logins, and network performance.
But you should be including every workstation connected to your network into your monitoring environment. Even those your employees work on day-to-day.
After all, most data breaches can be traced back to actions taken at an employee computer – insider threats or genuine mistakes such as clicking links on social media. And, with remote work increasingly the norm and remote team members accessing sensitive data from anywhere, the risks to data security (and the security of your network) have never been higher.
Paessler PRTG makes it easier to identify suspicious activity, prevent data breaches, and run a faster, more stable network. Our network monitoring solution’s preconfigured sensors track key health stats throughout the workday (and even at the evening, weekend, and other idle times).
And, custom automations alert you when there are problems, making it easier to troubleshoot and fix issues, ensure a more secure work environment, and keep your network running smoothly, even if you have a mostly remote workforce.
With a large number of preconfigured sensors, our monitoring software solution can track every parameter and metric imaginable: hardware and application health and availability, network traffic, and device performance, and generate detailed reports for your higher ups.
Stay on top of issues, without interrupting your workflow. Once you set your preferred error thresholds, there's no need for manual activity monitoring or checks. PRTG alerts you automatically via email, SMS, or other methods if something doesn't look right, while you get on with your day.
The best way to prevent glitches, data breaches, bandwidth bottlenecks, downtime, and other issues is to fix them before they spiral. PRTG monitors your entire IT infrastructure round the clock, so you can rest assured you won't miss a potentially disruptive development.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking mission-critical workstations and employee computers, including remote desktops. Show availability, CPU usage, memory, bandwidth usage, latency, 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 bottlenecks, unplanned downtime, and other network performance issues.
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
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Our workstation and employee computer monitoring software has a comprehensive range of preconfigured sensors for pinpoint-accurate monitoring of every parameter that could affect your network's security and performance, for example:
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 WMI Battery sensor monitors the available capacity and the state of connected batteries or uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs) of a Windows-based device. It can show the following:
The Windows Process sensor monitors a Windows process via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:
The SSH Disk Free sensor monitors the free space on disks of a Linux/Unix system using Secure Shell (SSH). It can show the following:
The SNMP Hardware Status sensor monitors the status of a server's hardware component. 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 errors, data security issues, suspicious activity, insider threats, and other problems with employee computers.
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Workstations are special computers that are used to perform tasks that would overwhelm conventional computers. Among other things, these tasks include the design of complex 3D models and computationally intensive simulations. For this reason alone, workstations must be monitored around the clock. After all, a glitch in one of these high-performance machines can have a serious impact on a company's operations and productivity.
PRTG is a proprietary software tool that tracks the health and performance of servers, physical and logical drives, virtualized environments, employee computers, and other devices connected to your network. Available for on-premises servers or as a cloud-based solution, it can monitor unlimited local devices, virtual environments, and remote desktops, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go.
PRTG’s functionality extends to preconfigured Linux-specific sensors you can use for monitoring user activity, device status, availability, and other performance metrics on workstations that run on Linux. You'll still need to install a PRTG core server on Windows. But, once that's done, you can use our new multi-platform probe that also runs on Linux/Unix and macOS systems. Alternatively, if your network runs exclusively on Linux, try our fully Linux-compatible hosted solution.
Yes. PRTG monitors remote desktops, workstations, and employee computers using a system of remote probes that are in constant communication with a central hub – your PRTG core server. Install the probes close to the endpoints of the remote desktops, workstations, or employee computers you want to monitor. The probes gather data on the metrics you’re tracking and report back to the core server, which organizes the data into dashboards you can look at to check the health of your organization's entire network at a glance and create detailed reports from.
No, Paessler PRTG is not an employee monitoring software. While many organizations may look for solutions to track employee productivity and remote workers, monitor employee performance, 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.
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.
