PRTG Network Monitor Scalability

Omar_Jaimes - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

You can scale the solution if you buy the most expensive licenses or limited sensors. 

We have 12 people using the solution within the company.

At this time, we do have plans to increase usage and add clients to the MSP.

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SK
Infrastructure Engineer at Lookers plc

We have a clustered environment using sort of a DR scenario across our data centers in Manchester and Belfast. So, when one is down, the other up.

At the moment, we have a limit of 10,000 sensors. That is the supported level, in terms of the license that we have. While we can increase that, it's at our own risk. After that, the product is not supported in terms of the extra sensors that we put in. Therefore, it is a case of how we use the actual load on the software ourselves.

So, we have the maximum license of 10,000 sensors, but we could do more.


10,000 sensors can be exceeded but it is not best practice. 

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SyedKareemuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at COCA COLA

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Around ten people in my company use PRTG Network Monitor.

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PRTG Network Monitor
March 2024
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DC
Infrastructure Team Lead at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees

PRTG has a clustering service, which is useful. We have had a bit of an issue with the WMI at one point where we just had too many WMI queries, but when we just swapped them to different sensor types, it become more efficient. This is not really a negative on scalability as much as ensuring to follow best practices.

The solution can grow with our business. If we need to expand the number of sensors that we are using or expand the number of remote offices that we have, we set up the remote probes with standard templates for sensors or services, and it works.

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RC
Manager, Information Technology Security at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

PRTG Network Monitor is a scalable tool, and I'd give it a rating of nine out of ten.

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AG
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees

We are a fairly large implantation, as we have currently 2500 nodes. We are just about to double that. The solution allows you to keep on doubling and doubling, as much as you need. The only restriction is the platform that you put it on. When you get into those larger areas, from what I understand, the performance on PRTG is just as good as it is on the smaller implementations.

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MA
Senior Technical Support at Etisalat

Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

Around 50 people in my company use the solution.


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Pierre-Anderson ELLO - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cdci

L’évolutivité est incroyablement simple et sans effort. Mille cinquante utilisateurs ont été intégrés.

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RV
Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

PRTG Network Monitor is a scalable tool, and I'm rating it three out of five in terms of scalability.

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AW
IT Coordinator at ENGIE Renewables Ltd

With the remote probes, the ability to monitor external domains makes this product easy to scale.

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CB
Senior Security Engineer at Fletchers Solicitors Ltd.

It's very scalable. At the moment we have around 1,000 or 1,200 sensors. We know that it would be very easy if we wanted to expand that. We could simply add in more sensors very easily.

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Sachin Vinay - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Amrita

The solution is scalable. Currently, we have about 15 people using it in our organization. These 15 people are in charge of deployment and maintenance. We intend to expand the usage to 2,500 licenses.

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LS
Engineer at Datacentreplus

We've been able to scale it up as we've brought more and more customers on. Having a sensor pool which we can dip into and use has been good. If we brought on five or ten customers, we could scale it up quite quickly with cloning and copying of templates.

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Bien A.Vitorillo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Atlas Fertilizer Corporation

I rate PRTG 10 out of 10 for scalability if you have the budget to buy the license.

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TD
Infrastructure Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees

We have started out with a 1000 probes. We're currently running, or have licenses for about 2500, running about 2000 individual probes on the system. It is showing a strain on the server. We are running on a Windows VM at the moment. We have somewhere in the region of 64GB and 4 Core running it. It is an okay server, but it is showing signs of a bit of a slow down, needing patches, updates, and reboots. It does take a while to come back to life.

We have added more probes to the solution. From the monitoring side, it is fine. However, using the server and rebooting, it is showing its age, especially if I have to restart services. Whether or not it is the application or the hardware that it is running on. 

It is doing the job for us and has scaled up from where it was originally.

If you are a small company with a few servers, the product is overkill. For a larger enterprise (like us), we have around a 120 Windows servers in our environment, and it seems absolutely fine. If you're a small company, you probably want more simple, straightforward products, as you don't need the features.

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Brian Massey - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a educational organization with 501-1,000 employees

The scalability of this solution has gone smoothly for me so far. I am mostly using it just for pings, and because I don't have a ton of net flows going into it, I am not heavily taxing it. We have a couple of thousand devices that it i monitoring and we have had no problems.

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MahmoudMohamed - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Professional Services Team Lead at e-finance

I did not face any issues with the scalability of PRTG Network Monitor. However, I did not test it.

There are approximately 17 administrators using this solution in my organization.

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KC
Senior Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

We're not that big of an organization, so I can't say much about scalability, but we've had no problems with it.

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MR
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

PRTG is quite scalable. It is not just about software; scalability extends to hardware with customizable solutions. PRTG is suitable for companies of all sizes, from small to enterprise-level, with support for up to 1,000 devices.

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TM
Head of Customer Service - Advanced Technologies at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees

There are about 20 users handling this product.

We haven't really attempted to scale it in any way. Therefore, I can't speak to how easy or difficult the solution would be to expand.

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CW
Systems Engineer at Converse Pharma Group

We have close to a 1000 sensors on it. I'm sure there are other people out there with a lot more sensors with bigger infrastructures than us. It performs absolutely fine if you have a site which has got a 1000 sensors on it. 

We can just add another probe onto another server on the site and extend that by doubling up the capacity on it. So, it can go as large as we want it to.

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CN
Director of Infrastructure and Technical Services at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability could be improved.

When we first started using it, we had four hundred different resources. Now we have four or five thousand different resources, it is not a scalable solution that automatically correctly adds devices where they belong, they are added to the end of the filter. They don't monitor appropriately; it's highly manual in terms of what and how it monitors.

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PD
System & Network Lead at Beachcombers Vacations

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable and easy to scale.

We have a lot of viewers using PRTG Network Monitor but we only have approximately four administrators using it.

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RC
Operational Management at Eleven

PRTG Network Monitor is very easy to scale.

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PA
Senior System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability is not bad and you can add extra to it. We don't have a scaling issue right now but from what I can tell, it appears that it can scale well.

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AJ
IT Manager at SILVERSTRING LTD

The scalability is good. I know we don't push it to what it can do. The Remote Probe feature is definitely fantastic, especially with the different geographies we have. I can't really fault it too much. With the auto-updates it pushes out, it almost looks after itself.

The solution grows with our business. Having the miniature silo sites is very good. That's helped out quite a lot with keeping track of our clouds because we can have everything in a "tiered system." If we've got a customer who rings up and wants to check on something, we can easily navigate, see what's going on, do some predictive analysis, and then see if we can help the customer make their environment any better, or just make sure it doesn't blow up in the middle of the night.

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US
Student at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

My opinion is that this is a scalable solution. There are currently 10 users of this solution in our company.

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MC
IT Manager at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable because you can offload the work to remote probes. We have 150 users in our company.

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KB
Jr IT support at localnet

We have just two users. However, we plan to expand the network and give people more access to the PRTG. Since we have all-time monitoring, someone should be online every second. Therefore, we will try to add more people and users.

It's very easy to scale the solution.

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RV
ICT-Manager at Heinen & Hopman Eng BV

The scalability is good. If a company needs to expand it, it can.

At the moment, we use it with four technicians and we have our own domain to handle. We have a central monitoring system in our IT office.

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Bien A.Vitorillo - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Atlas Fertilizer Corporation

We're using the free version, and we can only enroll up to 100 sensors. 

Currently, we have two system administrators who use this solution.

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CW
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees

The scalability is there, but smaller companies might need CAM software to be able afford the product. 

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AS
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees

We've had some issues with the sensors and remote probes. We're a relatively small environment, but we've started to see limitations based on the actual type of queries that we're throwing at it. We've been able to work around that and the support from vendor has been excellent in that respect.

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RC
Network Manager at Baldwin Family Health Care
JV
System Administrator at a government with 1,001-5,000 employees
SH
Operador at Arteria Comunicaciones SA de CV

The scalability potential is high. I would rate the ability to scale eight out of ten.

We have about ten users using the solution in our company. They are all engineers.

We do hope to increase usage in the future. 

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MR
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It is straightforward to scale, similar to SolarWinds.

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RV
Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability should come deep within the roots of the solution. The root of PRTG is having a lot of sensors inside because they work on monitoring sensors. The more sensors you have, the more you can scale. The good thing about the solution is that you can make your own sensors. This means it is scalable.

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ABHILASH R - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Security Engineer at Kerala State IT Mission

We have approximately 3,000 users using PRTG Network Monitor in our organization.

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Venkatesh Koppula - PeerSpot reviewer
Tech Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable.

We have approximately 200 to 250 devices that are being used with PRTG Network Monitor.

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WM
Post Sales Engineer at Corvit Networks

It is a scalable solution but depends on the license version. We have about 1000 devices integrated with the solution.

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JO
CTO at Solution delivery

We have two clients that are using PRTG Network Monitor.

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YA
Dev Ops Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

I think the platform is relatively scalable - we added two additional probes, and everything has worked fine without any issues.

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JR
CEO & Founder at SISTECO

The networks in Guatemala are not very large, so scalability has not been an issue for us.

Our clients are typically medium-sized businesses.

We are working towards increasing the number of deployments.

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JW
Solution Architect at Ultima Solutions

PRTG has above-average scalability. 

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Mourice Guya - PeerSpot reviewer
Information Technology Technical Manager at Laser Infrastructure and Technology Solutions

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable. You can also deploy it on Linux and Windows. We have approximately 350 people using this solution in my company.

We are an IT company that deploys this solution on more than one site.

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Heritier Daya - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

PRTG Network Monitor is a scalable product even though there are currently restrictions in our country.

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MA
Service management specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees

PRTG Network Monitor is very easy to scale.

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TG
Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The issues to pay attention to in terms of scalability are the sensors. The sensors help you isolate your problem. Let's say my only problem now is field monitoring. I might also want to have central monitoring but I couldn't do it. If you have a field monitoring system you may also want to have a central monitor as well. I haven't tried to do that yet on PRTG because I need higher levels to monitor my three or four PRTG systems. In other words, the product is not so easy to scale.

Right now it is just me and my colleague working on this product. We use it on a daily basis. We have groups for the maintenance center and the reporting center. Both are monitoring and mapping. I configured this for them.

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DP
Head of Technology Architecture - Head of Network and Security Centre of Excellence at a paper AND forest products with 10,001+ employees

This is a very scalable solution.

Our environment contains two and a half thousand servers and ten thousand desktops.

We have six people who perform the support functions. It is used on a daily basis, and we are planning on expanding usage to include access to our help desk. There are automated tickets generated when PRTG picks up faults on the network.

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GB
Network Engineer

Previously, we were easily under a 1000 sensors. We are now up to 3500. In the future, depending on how we scale out, we will be over the 5000 mark.

The product can easily grow with our business.

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SH
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications

Presently, PRTG is extremely scalable. In fact, I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of. 

If you have PRTG on a single server, the server can perform many functions. PRTG has a local probe that probes according to the configuration settings; however, even the best servers cannot take on an infinite load. Thankfully, PRTG offers a remote probe as part of their license return. This has multiple advantages including lessening the load of the server.
For example, should the communication link between the remote probe and PRTG server break down, the local probe will keep on accumulating data locally. When the link to the server is established, all the collected data is then flushed into the core. That is one way of scaling, but keep in mind, that adding multiple remote probes will eventually saturate the core because now you have to manage the data from so many sensors.

 Depending on the types of sensors and monitoring frequency, as your network expands, you can keep adding PRTG digit codes. You can keep adding servers and sensors to focus on monitoring. In my opinion, I don't know of another product where you can do this. Even if you've applied PRTG on multiple servers, you can still manage all of them using a single dashboard.

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DA
IT Infrastructure Engineer at Runshaw College

It's difficult for me to judge the scalability. For what we use it for - I think we've got 1,000 sensors and we use about 800 or 900 at the moment - it all runs fine. I'm sure it would scale very well if we needed it to go any further than that. But for what we use it for, it's relatively small.

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it_user407175 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Adminstrator with 501-1,000 employees

It does consume a lot of hardware resources, and over time you can notice it going slower. This is especially so when you've added/erased a large amount of checks, alerts or customizations from what are called "sensors" . Just like many Windows-oriented tools, you sometimes feel the urge of just resetting everything and starting over -but that's mainly because of how it handles during daily tasks- usually it doesn't have major issues with bugs or general usefulness.

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NH
Senior Network & Security Engineer at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

I have found the scalability to be good. Most of my clients have been medium-size businesses using this solution.

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MH
IT Manager at Berrys Ltd.

It is scalable. We've only got a small infrastructure, but if we had a larger infrastructure it would be fine. We probably only monitor 20 to 30 devices on it. We could do more but we don't.

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AB
Network Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees

Scaling is very easy. You just need to buy licenses to increase the scale and away you go. It takes minutes to scale it.

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Ahmed Nagm - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Solution Consultant at PCS

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable, I can add more network components if I was to need them.

This solution is best fitted for small to medium-sized businesses.

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JR
Senior Network Engineer at Axesat S.A.

While I've never tried to scale the solution, the potential to scale looks fine. It's pretty dated, however, and I'm personally looking for another solution for that aspect.

We have about 20 people using the solution currently.

We're actually in the process of looking for another tool that would be able to collect information for us. I'm not sure if we'd increase the usage of this tool for that purpose.

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it_user1062024 - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Analyst

It allows us to easily increase the number of sensors and the scope of what we can monitor. The scalability is very good. It grows with our business. We initially bought a set number of licenses and then upgraded it and bought additional server licenses to monitor other things in the business.

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SH
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications

PRTG has another level of scaling. There are XL1 and XL5. XL1 has one core and XL5 has four cores. If your network is big, you can distribute the database and reporting load on five different servers. You can have a common view of the entire global network using the enterprise console.

It is scalable. We have yet to hit a ceiling.

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RE
server at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

My company has two users for the product. 

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KM
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Its scalability is fine. We have between 300 to 500 people. We have plans to increase its usage.

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GM
Group Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees

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. We're not comfortable putting any more than that, even though the server might be able to handle it. It's already well outside the support boundaries for the solution. 

The only option we have to scale is to buy another core, which would be a separate, stand-alone instance, would not be managed through the same interface, and we would have to be looking in two different places. We love the product, but at the moment that is the main sticking point for us.

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PM
Systems Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's hard for me to talk about its scalability. We've got the basics, the 2,500 sensors, and that's what we use. It's fine. It has grown with our business but we've only grown marginally.

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Terry Cheung - PeerSpot reviewer
Managing Director at TopSOC

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable.

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AG
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

The remote probe thing is great. We have multiple data centers with multiple regions that we have to monitor. It's nice to know that all we have to do is throw up a remote probe into one of these areas, then have it talk back to the master cluster. We don't have to worry about anything outside of that. We don't have to worry about deploying brand new PRTG servers, as it's a lightweight installer. From there, we can even do an auto scan.

If we do build an entire new data center, we can just install a probe, get it to scan its local subnet, then feed that information back, which is really good.

The solution can 100 percent grow with our business.

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RC
Operational Management at Eleven

Its scalability is good. For on-premises deployments, the scalability depends on the hardware. For cloud deployments, the scalability depends on the number of servers.

Around 50% of our clients are small organizations and around 20% of our clients are big organizations.

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JB
Cloud Engineer at Software Cloud Limited

It looks pretty scalable. At the moment we've just got this on one client's site; quite a big client of ours. And the plan would be to include this in our support package, so when we get new clients we'll put PRTG on their systems as well.

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DM
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The scalability of PRTG Network Monitor is good. We only need to buy licenses from PRTG Network Monitor and add more devices or sites, or customers to it. It is easy.

We have four technicians and one senior technician using PRTG Network Monitor. If something goes down, they can see the problem and then either go to the site or approach the situation remotely.

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SA
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The solution suits our scalability needs. We also onboard many other systems. 

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VC
Network Administrator at joplin schools

The solution has been adequate for us in terms of scalability.

There are two people using the solution in our organization and they are part of the network management team.

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DB
Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech services company

It seems very easy to scale up. When you configure it, that is all you need to do. You only need to set it up once.

The solution will grow with our business. If we do need to add anything to the solution, it has not been a problem. Do it once, and that's it. It is done.

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it_user650931 - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Consultant at Celerity Limited

No issues with scalability until you reach license or hardware limitations. Then you need to install new servers and have different licensing. Have a plan and idea of what you want to monitor before implementation.

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JG
Senior Network Analyst at New Signal Systems

Our clients are not that large. It's single-server monitoring for some systems. We didn't have to scale it.

Our clients are small businesses, with under 100 seats.

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PB
Security Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees

The scalability is really good. At one point, I did enable a sort of clustering and found that much easier than SolarWinds. 

SolarWinds clustering is an absolute nightmare, whereas clustering with PRTG, was ridiculously simple. In order to scale and add more load balancing, PRTG was a lot smoother and quicker to do it. 

Obviously, there are different levels. We're currently limited to 100 sensors, but if we were to purchase an enhanced version of it, we could scale to whatever we purchased.

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DB
Cloud support engineer at grupo cma

The scalability of the product is quite good.

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JR
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

It's scaled as far as we've needed it to so far and we're planning to roll it out further. It scales perfectly fine. It's pretty easy to introduce new offices. We've got it on a core set of offices at the moment, but adding additional offices as they've been deployed has been a straightforward, easy process.

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it_user1422201 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Department MAnager at Engineering Consultants Group S.A.

PRTG Network Monitor is both scalable and stable.

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it_user720498 - PeerSpot reviewer
Monitoring Specialist at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

Because we are a relatively new user, I can't really comment on this.

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AK
Technical Manager

This is a scalable product. We have six people in the company that use it.

I have specific requirements for data that I have to gather. Of more than 400 data points that are available, I only need approximately 40. So, at this point, I'm only utilizing about 10% of the capability.

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MP
Systems and Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

PRTG Network Monitor is scalable, but you'll need to take care of the cost to scale up, because it can be costly.

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it_user203934 - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

No, you can add more probes very easily even from prtg web console.

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LW
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The solution is scalable, it's just a matter of including another piece of software and hooking it up through the network, through the Cisco routers, and away you go. 

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it_user865332 - PeerSpot reviewer
Engineering and Pre-Sales Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The scalability is good. You can improve a remote host or the clustering. This gives it the flexibility to monitor another infrastructure remotely.

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Buyer's Guide
PRTG Network Monitor
March 2024
Learn what your peers think about PRTG Network Monitor. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2024.
765,386 professionals have used our research since 2012.