Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-20T14:34:00Z
Jul 20, 2022
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.
Network Security Engineer at Kerala State IT Mission
Real User
Top 10
2022-07-01T09:08:03Z
Jul 1, 2022
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.
Tech Specialist at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 5
2022-06-09T06:26:18Z
Jun 9, 2022
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.
ICT Department Headquarters at Bridgestone Corporation
Real User
Top 10
2022-05-29T12:59:00Z
May 29, 2022
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.
PRTG gives us true visibility of the downtime of particular circuit functions. So if a circuit is up but not routing traffic, I will know with this tool. I can write a customized script for a sensor to detect specific things.
DevOps Engineer at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-08-11T13:13:38Z
Aug 11, 2021
It is user-friendly. It is easy to set up health checks within PRTG and use scans. It is like a self-service tool, and anyone can configure their own settings within PRTG.
Regional Head of IT at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Top 10
2021-01-11T16:25:05Z
Jan 11, 2021
The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback.
Senior System Engineer at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2021-01-06T20:40:06Z
Jan 6, 2021
It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts.
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.
Infrastructure Team Lead at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us.
Infrastructure Manager at a non-profit with 1,001-5,000 employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
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.
It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything.
Network Administrator at a construction company with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
The best feature is that it lets me know what is going on. I need to know if something has gone down, I need to know if something is running very slowly. PRTG tells me that.
Its proactiveness is its most valuable feature. We already know when we come in, in the morning, if a server or site is down, as opposed to someone telling us.
One of its valuable features is the fact that it handles multiple operating systems... And I like the fact that it tells me when things are about to fall over, which means I can preempt it and not have to wake up at three in the morning to fix it.
Senior Security Engineer at Fletchers Solicitors Ltd.
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
The sensors and probes are great, nice and lightweight, they don't take up too many resources on the system. We just deploy them out and they start reporting instantly.
Network Engineer at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
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.
The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us.
Group Information Security Manager at a comms service provider with 201-500 employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
One of the valuable features is the diversity of metrics available to us to monitor. It's all there, it's all in the box. It's all made very easy, by virtue of it being pre-configured.
We can see which fiber links have been used heavily and, if they are used heavily, we can introduce more links to particular buildings or particular areas.
IT Manager at a marketing services firm with 51-200 employees
Real User
2019-04-10T09:43:00Z
Apr 10, 2019
The most valuable feature is the notifications. As long as you spend time and think about what and when you want to be notified, it's always accurate. It is always there. I find things out before my Internet provider.
It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around.
We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going.
I'm working for an organization with ~1000 employees and I'm exploring the two monitoring solutions for cloud services: Azure Monitor and PRTG Network Monitor.
Please share your personal experience on the pros and the cons of each product. What would be your choice and why?
Thanks!
Hi to all. On my view, the PRTG would be the better decisionт as external independent solution. In addition, based on my own experience, PRTG is a more flexible tool that can be quickly configured for any task
IT strategist at Convergent Wireless Communications
Jul 26, 2018
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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The reporting module is easy to configure.
It is a user-friendly solution.
My opinion is that this solution is not very expensive.
The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper.
I like the mobility of the PRTG Network Monitor and ITOps Dashboard.
PRTG Network Monitor helps us quickly and easily discover a large number of sensors, so we can spend minimal time monitoring customer sites.
The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions.
Its initial setup process is fast and easy.
The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the dashboards. We can check to see the resources and the uptime.
PRTG Network Monitor is a very stable product.
The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is real-time monitoring.
It allows us to directly add individual VMs independently.
The most valuable feature of PRTG Network Monitor is the different monitoring probes available.
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.
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.
PRTG Network Monitor's best features are its flexibility, ease of implementation, user-friendliness, and intuitive interfaces.
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.
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.
PRTG is integrated on Windows.
Stable solution for monitoring networks and bandwidth, with multiple functions and features such as NetFlow Collector, graphical monitoring, etc.
Stable and scalable network monitoring tool. Installation is simple and straightforward.
What I've found most valuable is the custom sensor, which allows you to write scripts or code to monitor a specific metric in your environment.
PRTG is simple to manage. First, you can create a template for a device, then apply it to hundreds of similar devices. That's a great advantage.
The Slack integration is fantastic, and I've actually found it to be very useful recently.
PRTG gives us true visibility of the downtime of particular circuit functions. So if a circuit is up but not routing traffic, I will know with this tool. I can write a customized script for a sensor to detect specific things.
Ability to create a dashboard inside software monitoring.
It is user-friendly. It is easy to set up health checks within PRTG and use scans. It is like a self-service tool, and anyone can configure their own settings within PRTG.
The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease.
Technical support has been very helpful so far.
The solution is easy to manage and the reports are very accurate.
The initial setup is very simple.
It is able to satisfy all our requirements in terms of email notifications and specific errors on the devices.
Network Discovery is a feature that our customers like a lot.
The most valuable feature of this solution is being able to see things graphically.
The up-to-date graphs and the history are very good.
The initial setup was easy. We didn't have any issues with the process and everything rolled out smoothly.
The initial setup is pretty easy.
The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback.
It is easy when it comes to dependencies of devices, so if your router goes down, the three or four switches behind it will automatically be paused so that you don't get multiple alerts.
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.
It gives me a live view of the traffic on the WAN.
I would boldly say that this is the most scalable network monitoring tool that I know of
Good compilation of the system's information.
The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping.
The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors.
We use the remote probes a lot for our branch offices. Instead of deploying the full instance of PRTG, we'll put a remote probe out there. This simplifies the whole deployment for us.
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.
It is a central solution in terms of how to actually use it. It has a very easy dashboard. Everything is concise. We are able to create custom sensors. For different parts of the business, we have many products across many environments, and it works for everything.
The technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic.
The best feature is that it lets me know what is going on. I need to know if something has gone down, I need to know if something is running very slowly. PRTG tells me that.
Its proactiveness is its most valuable feature. We already know when we come in, in the morning, if a server or site is down, as opposed to someone telling us.
One of its valuable features is the fact that it handles multiple operating systems... And I like the fact that it tells me when things are about to fall over, which means I can preempt it and not have to wake up at three in the morning to fix it.
The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature.
The sensors and probes are great, nice and lightweight, they don't take up too many resources on the system. We just deploy them out and they start reporting instantly.
Speed of deployment is one of the most valuable features.
The alerting is the most valuable feature. I also like the iPhone app. I get alerts in an email on the iPhone app.
The real-time monitoring and alerting are its most valuable features.
It is pretty simple to use, which is always a good thing. It's been very reliable in updating us if any issues crop up.
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.
The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us.
One of the valuable features is the diversity of metrics available to us to monitor. It's all there, it's all in the box. It's all made very easy, by virtue of it being pre-configured.
The most valuable feature is the dashboard interface. It's very clean, it's very simple to use.
The authentication links into our standard Active Directory authentication, which is very good.
We can see which fiber links have been used heavily and, if they are used heavily, we can introduce more links to particular buildings or particular areas.
The solution provides us response times to issues.
The most valuable feature is the notifications. As long as you spend time and think about what and when you want to be notified, it's always accurate. It is always there. I find things out before my Internet provider.
It's very easy to manage when you've got time to do some work on it: things like adding devices, adding groups, adding sensor clusters, and being able to clone and move stuff around.
We can see trends for a lot of different things, such as hard drive space and bandwidth usage. We can see and plan for the future by knowing, "We're sort of at 75% capacity now. In three months time, we know we're going to be up to 90%,so we need to plan ahead for it, getting upgrades booked in place." Since things like this take time and effort, it's handy to see trends into the future of where our company is going.
I really love the activity library. It gives the flexibility to discover data and metrics about my interface and data server.
The product is simple and easy to implement.