PRTG Network Monitor Valuable Features

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

I like that PRTG Network Monitor is evolving as a product. For example, it's releasing new sensors on the OT, Modbus, and MQTT side, but its most valuable feature is the remote probe.

Other OEMs in the market will charge you after some time if you have multiple sites distributed within a particular region. Suppose you have four or five locations and deployed the agent; other solutions will charge you extra or add commercial charges to your invoice. Still, PRTG Network Monitor allows up to sixty or eighty remote probes for one server, particularly when you buy the PRTG main server license. I find this pricing model helpful, mainly because my company has multiple sites here in India, between thirty to forty sites. The company doesn't need to buy an additional license or commercial license.

The remote probe will be deployed at the site remotely, and PRTG Network Monitor will monitor the site and feed all monitoring data to the central server. It is beneficial because it ultimately gives you visibility from the central server. The remote probe feature in the tool helps you monitor remote systems or your network, so it's an outstanding feature available in PRTG Network Monitor compared to other OEMs in the market. Some OEMs may have the feature, but the charges would be huge for such a feature.

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

There was only one feature I liked about PRTG Network Monitor a lot, and that was bandwidth monitoring, though, in the newer versions of the tool, that feature is now a bit lacking.

Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is also not as expensive.

It's a good tool, even for beginners.

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

We prefer to use the PRTG because it has a low price. We provide solutions to the customer, and customers always prefer to pay less for the best output and quality. In addition, the solution allows customers to monitor anything within their network. For example, they can monitor their servers, application levels and virtualization instances.

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PRTG Network Monitor
March 2024
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PD
System & Network Lead at Beachcombers Vacations

The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are the threshold notification when certain traffic increases and goes beyond the defined threshold. The up and down status email notifications and other notifications are useful. Additionally, it is user-friendly, and customizable, and there are many features available.

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SH
Operador at Arteria Comunicaciones SA de CV

It's working fine. It gives us the information that we require so far.

The monitoring services it offers are great.

The solution can scale.

It is stable.

Technical support is helpful.

The initial setup isn't too complex. 

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KB
Jr IT support at localnet

I really like the bandwidth, which is something critical for me. Whenever we argue over an ISP, we make sure that we have clarity of the bandwidth we are using.

The setup process is pretty simple.

The solution is scalable.

It's very stable. 

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Omar_Jaimes - PeerSpot reviewer
Cybersecurity Architecture Manager at Data Warden

We like the monitoring with the net flow and net flow protocols and SNMP protocols. 

The health check functionality is currently very good.

Its initial setup process is fast and easy.

It is stable. 

The scalability is pretty good.

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Sachin Vinay - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator at Amrita

We have found the ESXi feature very valuable. It allows us to directly add individual VMs independently. We can also add the ESXi so each VM is considered a sensor, and each sensor can get all the resource parameters like CPU usage, memory usage and network usage. Everything is combined in one sensor, and we can utilize it. Unlike other competitors, this feature is only available in PRTG Network Monitor. Otherwise, we have to go with multiple sensors and it will be costly.

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Mokhamad Wahidin - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT Department Headquarters at Bridgestone Corporation

I think net flow is PRTG's most valuable feature because it doesn't cost much for us because the net flow sensor is already included in the PRTG license. We can monitor our traffic in our proxy and router.

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Pierre-Anderson ELLO - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at Cdci

L’aspect le plus précieux est la gamme variée de fonctionnalités qu’il offre. Le tableau de bord est exceptionnel, offrant une vue d’ensemble complète.

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SyedKareemuddin - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at COCA COLA

Most of the products either provide features for network monitoring or efficient server monitoring. There are different products for server monitoring when it comes to ManageEngine or SolarWinds, and there are different products for server monitoring. There are different metrics to consider when monitoring servers and networks. RTG Network Monitor gives me a complete picture of both the modules, which are server monitoring and network monitoring.

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HN
System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

PRTG Network Monitor helps us quickly and easily discover a large number of sensors, so we can spend minimal time monitoring customer sites. This allows us to focus on other important tasks.

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MA
Senior Technical Support at Etisalat

The features I found valuable are its reporting modules and the graphs, along with SNMB utilization and the bandwidth utilization for reports.

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

I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard.

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

The email notifications are helpful, and the dashboards are user-friendly for people with little network monitoring knowledge. 

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

The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are bandwidth utilization, user-friendliness, all past report simple retrievals, and timeout features. Additionally, if the solution does go down it is simple to bring it back.

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

The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime.

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Noor-E-MozammilAlighan - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior IT Engineer at NMA Technologies Services Ltd

The solution is good, very friendly, and simple to use. I have been taking training. As far as it's not complicated, you can use it.

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

The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is real-time monitoring.

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

The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are user-friendly, and the graphical interface is good for all the network devices that are mapped in this organization. It's very easy to find reports for any devices that we are looking for.

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

PRTG is a very flexible tool. The most valuable feature of this product is ping testing.

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Amos CLEGBAZA - PeerSpot reviewer
Technician-type internship at EIGSI La Rochelle, Ecole d'ingenieurs generalistes

The difference between PRTG and other products is that PRTG is integrated on Windows. 

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

There are good tools for monitoring purposes. 

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JO
CTO at Solution delivery

The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the different monitoring probes available.

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RC
Operational Management at Eleven

PRTG Network Monitor's best features are its flexibility, ease of implementation, user-friendliness, and intuitive interfaces.

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JW
Solution Architect at Ultima Solutions

The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper. 

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

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts. 

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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.
763,955 professionals have used our research since 2012.