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What is Paessler PRTG?

Paessler PRTG is a real-time unified infrastructure monitoring solution that enables IT Pros to locate problems throughout their entire network and resolve them before they escalate and become business critical. PRTG monitors all systems, devices, traffic and applications of your IT infrastructure using these technologies: SNMP: ready to use and custom options WMI and Windows Performance Counters SSH: for Linux/Unix and MacOS systems Flows and Packet Sniffing HTTP requests REST APIs returning XML or JSON Ping, SQL and many more Over 500,000 sysadmins from SMB's to large enterprises use Paessler PRTG to make their networks faster, more responsive, and more reliable.

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Product Description

Paessler PRTG is a network management software solution that monitors your network using a range of technologies to assure the availability of network components by measuring traffic and usage.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

One tool, one overview: IT Pros often use a variety of monitoring solutions to manage their network. This is an inefficient approach which costs time, energy and money. PRTG gives sysadmins the ability to monitor their entire infrastructure with one tool. Our dashboard and app provide a comprehensive overview, whenever you want it, wherever you are.

PRTG is lightweight, requires no SQL database and is completely customizable. We also offer a fair and transparent licensing model. Each license comes feature complete. With PRTG Network Monitor you will never need to purchase additional add-ons, features or functionality - you only pay for scale.


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Year Founded
1997
HQ Location
Nuremberg, Germany
LinkedIn® Page
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371 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Paessler AG is a renowned software development company specializing in network monitoring and management solutions. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Nuremberg, Germany, the company's flagship product, PRTG Network Monitor, is widely used by IT professionals and organizations around the world to monitor their IT infrastructures and ensure optimal performance.PRTG Network Monitor is an integrated solution tailored to monitor everything from network traffic and usage, to applications, and environmental conditions, providing comprehensive visibility and proactive warnings to prevent potential outages or bottlenecks. Paessler continuously updates its offerings to cope with the latest technological advances and challenges in IT infrastructure management.Beyond its main product, the company also focuses on innovation in IoT and cloud-based networking solutions, helping businesses transition to a more connected, digital environment. Paessler AG stands out for its commitment to user-friendly software solutions that reduce complexity and increase operational efficiency.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"Premium monitoring software with lots of customizability and an afordable prize"
Highly customizable monitoring platform with plenty of pre-set sensors and good report and ticketing system. Its API allows ease of integration on ...
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Luis L.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Super useful tool for an administrator who needs visibility of the entire network"
Easy installation, configuration, and operation setup
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"If we want to monitor something, then we use PRTG. Layer 1-8"
Automatic sensor detection. Wide selection of pre-made sensors. Helpful wiki and also reliable support.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Paessler PRTG offers a highly intuitive interface and powerful monitoring tools. The real-time alerts and customizable dashboards make it easy to keep track of network health and performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

While PRTG is powerful, the initial setup can be a bit complex, especially for users without prior experience. Some advanced features require a learning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Paessler PRTG is helping us solve network visibility and uptime issues by providing real-time monitoring of our infrastructure. It identifies bottlenecks, bandwidth hogs, and potential failures before they become critical, reducing downtime significantly. The customizable alerts and dashboards allow our team to react faster and plan maintenance more efficiently. It also helps in capacity planning and ensuring compliance with SLAs, which improves our overall service reliability and customer satisfaction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

The tool is very good and easy to configure and/or deploy, whether with local or remote sensors when there are remote sites within the company. It has a wide variety of sensors and has the tools to customize or create sensors based on the MIB files of any manufacturer and covers the seven layers of the OSI model to be monitored and generate the respective alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

The only thing, perhaps, is that it doesn't have a version to install on Linux and also the increase in its price, which has been very significant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Have the different environments or settings we are monitoring in a structured and clear manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Automatic sensor detection. Wide selection of pre-made sensors. Helpful wiki and also reliable support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Price development. For medium-sized companies, one must already argue more with the new prices than when making a purchase a few years ago. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Strangely posed question - not sure if the translation caused it or if I'm not up to date with the current state of internet life. :D

Insight into one's own system, which one should manage and be responsible for. PRTG makes it possible to cover all layers 1-8, and if you use the tool properly, nothing should slip through your fingers. :) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Easy installation, configuration, and operation setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

nothing for the moment, as the modules have been useful to me Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

The update to more nodes is a bit exaggerated, since from 1000, it could ask for 2000 but no, it goes to a higher number. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

UI is good.

easy for upgradation.

easy to add sensors and MIB files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

from past few months it is disconnecting frequently. no on call support and TAC team is unable to resolve this. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

OT monitoring, It will helpfull Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Highly customizable monitoring platform with plenty of pre-set sensors and good report and ticketing system. Its API allows ease of integration on any platform needed, and its alert system allows us to heavily automate network procedures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Maps and dashboards need to be done manually and might be a bit lacking. System stability somewhat lacking on high demand installations (but this might be due to being Windows based instead of Linux based). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

PRTG gives us visibility on underlying issues our IT and Network might have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Ease of use. Ease of Implementation. Great for alerts and notifications. Great flexibility to monitor Network, Servers, Applications and any device that supports SNMP. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Customer Support - Only communicating via Email.

You can't stack different sensors on one graph.

You can't see the Spikes on bandwidth utilization over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Its our main monitoring tool. We can have an overview of the status of the network, applications and services in one screen. We get alerts and notifications when something is out of order. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

It’s very user friendly to compare with Zabbix or Solarwinds. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

The only thing that is painful is limited to sensor. I couldn’t find website monitoring (being up or down), Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overload traffic Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

There are many network monitoring tools like Prtg, but PRTG is more convenient and easy to use interface among them.There are many good features

I've used PRTG for severral Months now and I am very satisfied with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

>It is Very easy to use in first.

>It is suitable for the desired device. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

>Easy to Install.

>Cost is lower than the rest.

>Easy to operate as I can configure it in 5 Minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Paessler PRTG?

Easy to install, configure, with a welcome ease in generating graphically successful dashboards, the PRTG solution can be deployed and integrated in less than half a day, even without being an IT expert. It installs on a Windows operating system.

Everything is designed so that in a few clicks you have your solution ready to use, and it is therefore perfectly suited to the world of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that do not necessarily have an IT team permanently available or wish for simplified deployments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Paessler PRTG?

Beyond a certain number of preconfigured sensors for software, manufacturers, or systems, it quickly becomes a hassle to create custom sensors that are adapted. The whole setup quickly encounters limitations if you are someone who is technically demanding or has particular appliances or systems (custom scripts are a nightmare, and it's quicker to customize the SNMP of the system in question).

Regarding integration, the API or external aspect is clearly behind the times, and the solution is therefore more designed to operate standalone rather than in a fully integrated environment.

As for performance, between the heavy sensors and the limitations of the file/configuration system, you will quickly need a high-performance setup or constant optimization to run more than 10,000 sensors. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Paessler PRTG solving and how is that benefiting you?

PRTG is easy to deploy, update, and the large number of pre-configured sensors allow for the rapid deployment of dozens of probes and associated monitoring, thus providing easy-to-implement and maintain supervision. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.