PRTG Network Monitor Primary Use Case
We are using PRTG to monitor networks, applications, and databases like Oracle Database or SQL Database. Now we plan to use PRTG for IT aggression management.
Though it's not suitable, I think we can also use PRTG for operations monitoring. We will make a dashboard in PRTG and use it to control when we have a problem. We can analyze which part has a problem so that we can analyze and report to our SQL. We have about 10 to 12 people in the IT department working with PRTG.
View full review »If you want to grant access for clients to the MSP service provider, you can use this solution. For example, if the client wants to monitor the net flow and net flow traffic with PRTG, you can analyze this traffic for them.
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Shirwan Khan
Infrastructure Engineer at Lookers plc
I look after the infrastructure side of Lookers. We have 8000 users, 400 various servers, and 190 sites. We've been rolling the product out and are relying on the infrastructure purely for the whole of our business.
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PRTG Network Monitor
March 2024
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I use PRTG Network Monitor to monitor server and network environments in my company.
We use the solution for monitoring the bandwidth and reachability of a big network. We rely on reachability to generate an alarm as banks have different branches and routers. We use the PRTG to assess whether there is any fault in any branches or ATM buses. We have been using a site with 5000 sensors in 60-78 sites.
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Daniel Cattigan
Infrastructure Team Lead at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
We use it to monitor our critical infrastructure, i.e., the services our users depend on. It is very useful for us to have that holistic view, e.g, one single view of the dashboards. The product is a useful kit to summarize the health of our infrastructure.
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Rakesh Chandra
Manager, Information Technology Security at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees
We're using PRTG Network Monitor for server-level monitoring and network-level monitoring, and in our network, we have switches and firewalls.
We're also using the solution for bandwidth monitoring and internet link monitoring.
We're also planning to use PRTG Network Monitor to monitor CCTV and other IoT devices.
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Hoan_Nguyen
System Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use the solution to monitor customer sites.
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Antony Gouldstone
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
We use PRTG to monitor all of our business critical and distributed systems around the areas that we operate in the UK. This is ensure they have good system uptime and can demonstrate against SLAs.
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MohamedAbdalla
Senior Technical Support at Etisalat
The solution is used for infrastructure monitoring and for some limited automation and SNMP monitoring. If any parameters cross any threat, then it would trigger some healing, like restarting by sending some special commands.
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Shankar HN
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications
It's a globally distributed network. We have multiple data centers or IT setups, and PRTG is deployed at the local data centers. Some of the applications are in the cloud, and PRTG can also monitor those.
View full review »Je l’utilise pour surveiller le système de défense, les différents commutateurs et les connexions entre les différents bureaux de vente. De plus, je l’utilise pour surveiller mes différents environnements virtuels.
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Rajesh Vishwakarma
Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Our use case for PRTG Network Monitor was end-to-end monitoring, but we couldn't achieve it, particularly the monitoring from the perspective of looking at the complete dashboard of the entire infrastructure, though it's a server virtualization network. For example, monitoring any device, even a swiping machine or a camera, or any device which comes and adopts an IP address should be monitored using PRTG Network Monitor, so that was our use case in the beginning.
Eventually, we then wanted the tool to also monitor our applications, so our current use case for PRTG Network Monitor is to monitor applications residing on our infrastructure, apart from devices that use or adopt IP addresses.
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AndrewWright1
IT Coordinator at ENGIE Renewables Ltd
PRTG has been a network monitoring solution for our company for over five years now. We constantly monitor our servers, switches, broadband. Anything that we can put a sensor on, it monitors. I monitor four domains and I use cross-domain network monitoring as well.
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Chris Bentley
Senior Security Engineer at Fletchers Solicitors Ltd.
We use the solution for full network monitoring, to manage our entire estate; that includes things like disk space and network usage. It alerts us of any potential outages so that we can attend to those before they occur.
View full review »Our primary use case for this solution is monitoring all our live servers, their resources and networking equipment like firewalls, routers, switches and network switches. Additionally, we have a bandwidth monitoring map deployed in PRTG Network Monitor to monitor our internet bandwidth continuously. The solution is deployed on-premises.
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Lewis Stonier
Engineer at Datacentreplus
We use it to manage customers and to keep an eye on when stuff goes down or when stuff is not working as intended. We monitor mostly servers, but we use it to monitor websites and some of the network infrastructure as well.
View full review »We use PRTG to remotely check if devices are still online. It can also monitor temperature, traffic, and device connectivity. We configure it to send us alerts. For example, if a device exceeds a specified bandwidth, PRTG will send an email notification.
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Tim Deighton
Infrastructure Manager at a logistics company with 10,001+ employees
We primarily monitor Windows-based servers and services running within them. We also have some ties-in scripting into more bespoke areas, as well on our network.
We host a virtual environment running VMware in-house.
View full review »My primary use case for the PRTG solution is network device monitoring. For example, if one of my Ubiquity access points goes down, PRTG will send an alert so that I can go and try to restart it and bring it back up before people start complaining.
We are using PRTG Network Monitor mainly for real-time monitoring and communication in our environment.
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Keith C.
Senior Manager, Enterprise Infrastructure at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees
We're using PRTG for network, asset, and infrastructure monitoring. I have five network and infrastructure engineers using the solution, and we're not using it extensively. It's one of our secondary monitoring tools.
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MoshiurRahman Khan
CEO at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
My clients primarily use PRTG for monitoring network devices, bandwidth, server status, and security devices like Sophos firewalls, and CCTV systems. It helps ensure efficiency, security, and reliability across their IT infrastructure.
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Thomas Michaut
Head of Customer Service - Advanced Technologies at a logistics company with 501-1,000 employees
We primarily use the solution for applicative monitoring, or network and applicative monitoring for some customers so that they can make sure that all equipment is up, and sometimes we use it to look for some more accurate sensors.
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Callum Williams
Systems Engineer at Converse Pharma Group
The primary use case is for monitoring infrastructure: servers, printers, endpoints, and certain services on certain systems. We are alerted in regards to any issue with them.
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reviewer2045109
Director of Infrastructure and Technical Services at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our use case is limited.
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Percy Driver
System & Network Lead at Beachcombers Vacations
We are working with a web version of PRTG Network Monitor.
I use PRTG Network Monitor for the monitoring of all my switches and backbone infrastructure in my hotels. This includes my remote sites and for the monitoring and notification of our business lines in our hotels and traffic monitoring.
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Rodrigo Corte
Operational Management at Eleven
I use PRTG Network Monitor to monitor network devices, routers, switches, servers, applications, and services.
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reviewer1423485
Senior System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
We are primarily using this product for alerting. We receive notifications for events like the interface going up or down and remote access, as well as information such as the interface volume.
We're using the basics of it to monitor our switches and routers and primarily just the networking equipment for up-down status.
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Anton James
IT Manager at SILVERSTRING LTD
I use PRTG because I have six clouds around the world, a mixture of our own and our customer data, so I need to know when it's all up and running and when it's dead. My team is the main point of call for all the infrastructure around the world. I get called out at all times during the night and day, including this morning at five am.
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Usman Shafeeq
Student at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Our primary use case for this solution is for every computer operator in my data center to be able to easily operate and use devices.
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Moeen Chowdhary
IT Manager at a construction company with 5,001-10,000 employees
PRTG Network Monitor is used to monitor internal network infrastructure servers. We use the solution to check to see if our equipment is up or down.
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Kaso Baxtiar
Jr IT support at localnet
I'm using the product on my virtual PC in a virtual environment. I use PRTG for monitoring the ping traffic. Whenever something goes down, it will alarm me, and maybe for the traffic and the bandwidth use as well. It helps me track traffic and uptime.
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Reinier Van Schaik
ICT-Manager at Heinen & Hopman Eng BV
We primarily use the solution for monitoring.
View full review »We use it specifically for our network devices and service providers. We're able to know if the connection with a certain internet service provider is still alive.
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Craig Williams
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
It provides a consolidated view of servers, switching, and network connectivity for the offices that I look after.
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Andy Shephard
Information Security Analyst at a financial services firm with 51-200 employees
Our primary use case is network performance monitoring, but we also use it for things like network traffic flows and getting a better idea of the actual types of traffic that are going through our network.
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Rod Cushman
Network Manager at Baldwin Family Health Care
- Monitoring network
- Uptime
- Resources on servers
- Better monitor our network, local, and remote hosts, and network usage as well.
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Sixto Huerta
Operador at Arteria Comunicaciones SA de CV
I use the solution to monitor the services for our customers or for ourselves.
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Moshiur RahmanKhan
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
It is great for service level agreements and can comply fully with internet monitoring or any interface such as hardware or network interfaces and database instance. Irrespective of the MID, it can detect and monitor it. It is a vast platform and can make the cluster for the DC and DR. If one is down, it'll last shorter than the second one.
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Rajesh Vishwakarma
Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
The solution is for network monitoring.
View full review »PRTG Network Monitor is used for monitoring internet service providers, and we want to receive the downtime of the network devices mapped. PRTG Network Monitor is hosted in a local host server in our three data centers.
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Waqas Moazzam
Post Sales Engineer at Corvit Networks
I use the solution to monitor the availability of devices and check if ping has generated ICMP requests.
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James Olorunosebi
CTO at Solution delivery
PRTG Network Monitor is used by network monitoring teams for keeping a tab on services that are down. Once you are aware of a failure you are able to quickly reinstate the service before customers or brand users notice. This can be done even before the service is down, if you see a pattern of service degradation, it can quickly attend to it.
View full review »We use this solution for security and supervision of our network. There are two people using PRTG Network Monitor in my company.
The solution is deployed on a private cloud with Microsoft Azure.
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reviewer1036191
Dev Ops Engineer at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees
We use PRTG network monitoring to monitor our server, especially for computing resources.
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Jose Robles
CEO & Founder at SISTECO
We are a service provider in the IT industry, and this is one of the products that we implement for our clients. We are using this product ourselves, and we have several customers who are also using it.
It is basically used for monitoring alerts, such as memory from a server has gone down.
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JudyWang
Solution Architect at Ultima Solutions
We use PRTG as part of a general support platform we offer to our clients. It provides a single pane of glass to monitor network hardware and software and head off critical incidents.
We are mostly using PRTG Network Monitor for monitoring servers, and switches. For example, we monitor uptime on critical resources.
View full review »We use it to monitor our network because we have a central site that connects to many remote sites, and we have primary and alternative links. We need to monitor both links for each site to be able to react when it is necessary in case of failure. It is beneficial for us to check the connectivity and bandwidth used in a particular channel.
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Mickael Aljian
Service management specialist at a healthcare company with 5,001-10,000 employees
We use PRTG Network Monitor for network monitoring. We mainly monitor uptime on our switches and our network environment, and we're looking at expanding into server monitoring as well.
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reviewer1362588
Engineer at a tech services company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Our primary use case with PRTG is measuring and monitoring the system. We have a few servers running in redundancy. There are two monitoring ones. One for the maintenance staff with more details and the other one is for general control and assessing when there is a user error or 401. We use it on the business logic level. With redundancy, the FRC is just to monitor whether there is a complete down or only one system goes down.
We see everything being monitored on the screen. When we do mapping it's easier for us to monitor whether it's the server's fault, the feature's fault, or it's the router, or some other device, or some other legacy system. It all starts with the monitoring.
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Darryl Potgieter
Head of Technology Architecture - Head of Network and Security Centre of Excellence at a paper AND forest products with 10,001+ employees
We have deployed this solution on numerous platforms.
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Graeme Barratt
Network Engineer
The primary use case if for monitoring bandwidth, uplinks and using SNMPs. We are slowly scaling out to monitor hard drive disk spaces, as well.
Our bandwidth solution, which are the uplinks that we have at the moment for circuit breakouts, and ISPs don't give us the best information. So, we use what we can and monitor the uplinks before they hit the equipment.
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Shankar HN
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications
PRTG is a very versatile and flexible tool. We have a vast number of users spread over more than 300 installations in India and neighboring countries. We have many different types of customers who use this tool for project control monitoring and other types of network monitoring.
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David Ashcroft
IT Infrastructure Engineer at Runshaw College
We use it to monitor services, things like hardware usage and whether hard drive space is running out. We use it for quite a lot of our networking solution as well. If there's a glitch in the network, anything that's abnormal, being able to see that show up is quite good.
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Matthew Hancock
IT Manager at Berrys Ltd.
Our primary use case is monitoring when our network fails, when a server goes down or a site goes down. We have five sites.
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Adam Brown
Network Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees
We use it mostly for monitoring our servers, network equipment, firewall, etc.
View full review »RTG Network Monitor is used for monitoring many parts of our network, such as IP telephone system, internet traffic, firewall, and network utilization. Additionally, it can monitor server information, for example, CPU and memory usage.
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JulianRodriguez
Senior Network Engineer at Axesat S.A.
We use the solution to recollect data from past equipment.
View full review »We use it to monitor our servers. We try to monitor all of the functions the servers as closely as possible.
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Shankar HN
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications
We sell the product to customers and handle their problems. From every problem that we handle, we learn from it.
As a company, we deploy WiFi network in major hotels (four or five star level). The guests who come to stay in those hotels are very sensitive to availability and performance. So, we have to monitor the bandwidth high availability, as well as the basic infrastructure, such as checking the system and all the IT infrastructure in those hotels.
Today, we have a lot of customers, hundreds in India and neighboring countries, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Some of our customers have taken us to Malaysia because they did business with us in India. We also work with two countries in Africa, Congo and Nigeria.
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reviewer2378874
server at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
We use the product for network monitoring.
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reviewer1647066
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
We are using this solution for the health check of our infrastructure.
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GroupInffc1b
Group Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
We use it for network monitoring, mostly. We look at any metrics that the sensors pull back for us, such as availability, performance. We have some custom sensors for service monitoring.
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SystemsS1e9e
Systems Specialist at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Monitoring of all our disparate sites through a central console is our primary use case.
View full review »We are using PRTG Network Monitor for performance monitoring. We use it to
monitor traffic and to identify network issues. In our school, the network is slow, so we use PRTG Network Monitor to capture the network and traffic status, and through it we found out that one of the servers is sending out messages.
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Nelson Saravia
Senior Business Project Manager at Bonsai System Ltda
PRTG Network Monitor is used to monitor our client's network.
View full review »We use PRTG Network Monitor for connectivity and communication between devices.
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Anthony Grant-Marston
Network Engineer at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees
- We run two data centers and are a hosted voice provider.
- We have an Azure presence.
- We use PRTG as a monitoring solution to effectively monitor all of our servers, routing infrastructure, and switches.
- We have some Session Border Controllers, which are effectively Voice Firewalls. We monitor the uptime and availability of those via things like Ping. However, we are also using SNMP sensors.
- We've written some SQL queries that PRTG is utilizing.
- We check things, like error logs, through PRTG.
- We are feeding things, like system log messages.
- We use SNMP Traps.
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Rodrigo Corte
Operational Management at Eleven
We use it for some internet providers and educational institutes.
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Jon Bowler
Cloud Engineer at Software Cloud Limited
We use it to keep an eye on the equipment we've got out there. We've got a Citrix farm which we shut down on an evening. We have alerts to tell us if they haven't come back up.
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reviewer917301
Director at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
We are using the latest update.
We use the solution for our firewall interface and bandwidth monitoring.
The solution may be modified to meet one's requirements. Mine are simply for SNMP bandwidth monitoring for my network interfaces. Others may have different needs when it comes to the solution.
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Vincent Crossley
Network Administrator at joplin schools
The primary use of the solution is to secure network resources and to get a visual of what is connected.
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CyberSec188d
Cybersecurity Engineer at a tech services company
We use it to manage our systems internally. At some point, we will be offering it as a managed service.
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Rodrigo Corte
Operational Management at Eleven
Our primary use case is for monitoring numerous services; internet providers, university campuses, etc. We are resellers.
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John Goutbeck
Senior Network Analyst at New Signal Systems
Our clients use this solution to see if the network is up and running, for pings and services such as emails and disk space.
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Security66f5
Security Engineer at a wellness & fitness company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is for monitoring the up/down of our core infrastructure: Internally, the edge routers in our major occupancies, core switches, access switches, etc. It sort of give us real-time feedback for what is going on.
We use it to determine if a switch is up, our traffic is running optimally or at a normal rate.
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Dennis Berrocal
Cloud support engineer at grupo cma
We primarily use the solution as a monitoring tool. We use it mostly for looking at changes in the resources' behavior. Pretty much it's the use we have primarily. The second one is to provide a report of the total consumption of the resources that we use. We pretty much have to monitor systems.
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NetworkE56d0
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
We use it for monitoring items on the network: switches, servers, and other devices, to guarantee or at least monitor uptime.
View full review »Within our organization, only the network department uses this solution — there are eight of us.
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reviewer1690251
Technical Manager
We are a system integrator and this is one of the monitoring products that we implement for our clients.
Our customers use it for monitoring their networks.
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Ramakrishna Panda
Director - Operations at Shell Networks & Solutions Ltd
We primarily use the solution in order to monitor the network performance and stability.
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reviewer1127835
Systems and Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
I have experience in configurations and troubleshooting, and I use PRTG Network Monitor for network monitoring activities, e.g. monitoring the bandwidth and where it's coming from. For example, I use NetFlow instead of SNMP only.
We had a big amount of bandwidth being used, and I wanted to check whoever was using that amount of bandwidth. We managed to find the source IP address of who was using that specific bandwidth amount, with the help of PRTG Network Monitor.
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Percy Bloomfield
Project manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
While I cannot say for certain, I believe we are using the latest version.
We use it for monitoring network devices and downloads.
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reviewer1344966
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
We have offices around Australia, we're a company organization with a couple of hundred people where we monitor four or five offices and their networks. We use the solution on a daily basis. We're a customer of PRTG and I'm president of our company.
We use this solution for monitoring servers in our data center. It performs pretty well.
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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.
765,234 professionals have used our research since 2012.