We performed a comparison between Instana Infrastructure Monitoring and PRTG Network Monitor based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two IT Infrastructure Monitoring solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The product is easy to deploy."
"The product's initial setup is easy."
"It is nice to have one place where all the information is right there in front of us."
"It allows us to directly add individual VMs independently."
"It has made our infrastructure more reliable."
"PRTG Network Monitor's best features are its flexibility, ease of implementation, user-friendliness, and intuitive interfaces."
"It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around."
"Accessibility, ease of use (Web GUI, MobileApps). In general, compared with other software"
"It is a user-friendly solution."
"From a network point of view, we can see the state of the network, as well as bandwidth usage and downtime."
"Instana Infrastructure Monitoring needs to support monitoring of the .NET framework since it is one of the areas where the solution currently has shortcomings."
"The product’s scalability is an area with certain limitations, making it an area where improvements are required."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve Layer 2 and Layer 3 network maps and the GUI more user-friendly. Additionally, they should bundle the features so I can monitor everything on one particular device."
"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."
"We run it in a cluster, so we have two that run together. The cluster behind it is sketchy at times."
"PRTG's documentation could be improved."
"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."
"The solution could be better and faster when it comes to performance."
"There is room for improvement in this solution for the performance and third-party monitoring protocols. They need to be updated to the latest ones."
"PRTG does not allow us to scan devices like we can scan software or another problem in it. Also, I cannot draw graphical graphs in Woodview/look. Another problem is that we cannot draw a good diagram in PRTG."
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Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 37th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 2 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 6th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 96 reviews. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is rated 9.6, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Instana Infrastructure Monitoring writes "Has the capability to automatically integrate with a large number of products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is most compared with IBM SevOne Network Performance Management (NPM), Zabbix, Amazon CloudWatch, Opsview and Checkmk, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Instana Infrastructure Monitoring vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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