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's initial setup is easy."
"The product is easy to deploy."
"I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard."
"PRTG has improved our visibility and response time to issues related to remote sites."
"We like the alerting system, the SNMP monitoring and the customization of the bandwidth."
"The feature whereby it shows when my hard drives are moving towards thresholds that would be considered outages, before they reach that point - that is valuable."
"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."
"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."
"The solution provides us response times to issues."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."
"They should work on syncing the solution with Gmail."
"I would like the ability to monitor Cisco IRS devices."
"PRTG's application monitoring sensor is not strong."
"The thing that we do struggle with a bit is in the historic data. If I want look over 30 days, because it averages out onto one graph, you can't zoom in and drill down information."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve the reports. In the reports, you have to give an alert for that SMS and email, the emergency calls and downtimes have to be reported accordingly. You have to enable email services or an SMS gateway service to receive more alerts at the proper time."
"Scalability is the only major sticking point for me. There is a recommended number of sensors, which is around 10,000 and we're double that... The only option we have to scale is to buy another core, which would be a separate, stand-alone instance..."
"I wouldn't mind better categories for the sensors. When I go to add a new sensor for a new device, there are some categories in there already, and they can be filtered out, but there's quite a large pool of sensors... When I want to go in and find something quite specific, I have got to scroll down and scroll down to find what I'm actually looking for,"
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Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is ranked 44th 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, Checkmk and Splunk APM, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM and ManageEngine OpManager. See our Instana Infrastructure Monitoring vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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