Grafana Enterprise Stack vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

Grafana Labs and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #25 with an average rating of 8.2, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #6 with an average rating of 7.7. Grafana Labs holds a 0.9% mindshare in IM, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 4.4% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 91% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

Grafana Enterprise Stack

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PRTG Network Monitor

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91% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 15, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and Grafana Enterprise Stack compete in the network monitoring and data visualization category. Grafana Enterprise Stack seems to have the upper hand owing to its advanced visualization and customization capabilities, which are particularly beneficial for extensive data exploration.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor offers rapid deployment, cost-effectiveness, and robust alerting capabilities. It supports diverse infrastructures with minimal customization and provides frequent updates. Grafana Enterprise Stack excels in advanced visualization and data representation, offering integrated analytics and flexible dashboarding for complex data insights.

Room for Improvement: PRTG users suggest better application monitoring, enhanced template management, and improved distributed network monitoring. Its dashboard is considered simplistic, and licensing costs could be lower. Grafana could improve its ease of configuration, integrate AI for analytics, and reduce dependency on third-party integrations. More support resources and linked metrics and logs are desired.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor is praised for its straightforward on-premises setup with some hybrid cloud capabilities, though quicker response times to critical issues are desired. Grafana Enterprise Stack offers similar deployment models, with users valuing more tutorials and support resources. PRTG provides email-based support, while Grafana benefits from an extensive knowledge base.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor offers flexible licensing, which can become costly for larger environments, but it provides substantial value, particularly with perpetual licensing. Its ROI is shown through reduced downtime and increased operational efficiency. Grafana Enterprise Stack offers a free version alongside cost-effective enterprise options, demonstrating strong ROI through customization features, although additional support features can increase enterprise costs significantly.

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

25th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

6th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (11th)

Mindshare comparison

As of June 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 4.4%, down from 4.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Gregory Diana

Managing Director at Exponential Energy (Pty) Ltd

Offers very good charting capabilities and capable of automatically generating dashboards, even for a large number of data points

In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party. It's like Node-RED. Node-RED is free, and you can choose an application, but that application depends on the person who's supporting it. If they decide not to support it, then you're stuck. However, I believe that it can't be improved or changed because people have to make money and make a living from it. Nothing will ever be changed. It depends on the software. Same as Windward. Windward just decided it could not support a large number of customers, so it focused on high-income, low-volume clients. Whereas Node-RED has millions of followers and fantastic support, the same as Grafana. Grafana is partly free, but it's your problem. That's how all these companies work. If you're big and you pay a lot of money, they'll pay attention to you.

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Noman-Saleem

Network Support Officer at Habib Metropolitan Bank Ltd

Detects suden changes but significant pricing concerns affect the effectiveness of network traffic troubleshooting

We use PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring traffic on interfaces and the behavior of network traffic. If there are sudden changes in traffic or any configuration issues, we can sort them out using PRTG. It's very helpful for troubleshooting and monitoring traffic utilization on our interfaces…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"It is truly reliable."

"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."

"Grafana's most valuable feature is its ability to provide a graphical representation of data collected from various sources."

"The most valuable features of Grafana for data visualization are its ability to create intuitive dashboards and its wide range of visualization options like graphs, charts, and tables."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

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"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."

"It is a very stable solution. There are no bugs, glitches and we have not experienced any crashing."

"Ease of set-up – it is quick and easy to add a probe and start collecting data from a device."

"PRTG Network Monitor is easy to set up."

"We have asked questions of their technical support and they have a very good response time."

"The solution provides us with needed feedback on our IT infrastructure. It gives us really good quality of service when it comes to monitoring of available space and available resources. It allows us to preempt issues before they become a problem for the business."

"I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of"

"It is very flexible, and we can monitor many aspects of IT as well as ERP and CRM services. It has a very powerful interface and APIs for customization."

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Cons

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"The solution should include integration with Power BI."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

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"Sometimes, it is difficult to drill down further to get information, e.g., if we saw spike in traffic, then we would want to drill down and find out what is causing that spike in traffic."

"I've encountered a challenge in my functions, particularly in adding and printing."

"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."

"Once you start going above 5000 sensors, things do start to get a bit shaky. There are some best practice out there that you will need to adopt and be aware of."

"Technical support is an area with concerns in PRTG Network Monitor, where improvements are required."

"I would like to see network mapping."

"There seems to be a big jump from the basic scan to the really thorough scan. There is a big jump in the quantity of sensors it uses for certain things. One minute you might get ten and then the next you get 200. There seems to be a big jump between the two at times."

"It would be nice if it gave us alerts via Gmail or SMS message."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is a nine out of ten. It meets my company's budget and monitoring requirements. My company is on a perpetual license."

"While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year."

"Licenses are very expensive, so I would like to see cheaper licensing."

"Because we are only on the free version, we have a limited number of sensors. Therefore, we are not monitoring as much as we want to be to obtain historical information."

"It is about £4,500 for the first year, then about another 15 to 20 percent annually after that. So, we are looking at about £1000 running costs a year. When you think about how much an outage costs per minute, it's negligible."

"It is expensive."

"At the moment I'm only using 500 sensors. I pay yearly, so it's a cost that's easily swallowed."

"The pricing is very low compared to other solutions."

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IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Computer Software Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Educational Organization

36%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

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What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

From an analytics perspective, the integration of AI would be a beneficial improvement for Grafana Enterprise Stack.

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

Our primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack includes monitoring cluster utilization, taking care of impact avoidance, conducting upgrades, ensuring storage memory does not become full, and id...

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The pricing is in the middle. It's not too high, nor too low, but it's reasonable.

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

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Sample Customers

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell

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