PRTG Network Monitor
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| developer | Paessler AG |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| Current version | 3/20/60 (July 7, 2020) |
| operating system | Windows |
| category | Network monitoring |
| License | commercially |
| German speaking | Yes |
| https://www.paessler.com/prtg | |
PRTG Network Monitor (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher up to Version 7) is a commercial network monitoring software from Paessler AG. The tool can monitor and classify system conditions and collect statistics from various hosts such as switches , routers , servers and other devices and applications.
history
PRTG Network Monitor goes back to the software developer Dirk Paessler. With the web server Stress Tool, Paessler developed his first software in 1997 . In collaboration with Jens Rupp, the IPCheck Server Monitor followed a little later, which can be described as the first forerunner of PRTG. The shareware has already achieved annual sales of € 100,000.
In 2001, Dirk Paessler founded Paessler GmbH . As a further development of the then popular open source tool MRTG ( Multi Router Traffic Grapher ), the company Paessler brought out Router Traffic Grapher (PRTG), the name of which is based on MRTG.
In 2008, the PRTG Traffic Grapher and the IPCheck Server Monitor were combined and merged in the PRTG Network Monitor 7. The trade journal Network Computing named the tool the reference for monitoring software. In 2017, a cloud-hosted version of PRTG was released. The variant offers largely the same range of functions as the standard tool and is paid for on a monthly basis by subscription.
Functional scope and licensing
As a network monitoring program, PRTG Network Monitor monitors various system states. When self-defined limit values are reached or exceeded, notification via SMS, email or push message is possible. The aim is to reduce system and computer failures to a minimum.
PRTG is only available for Windows systems. In addition to the desktop version, the cloud-based solution "PRTG hosted by Paessler" is available.
Sensors
The software is based on so-called sensors that can be configured for a specific purpose. For example, there are sensors for SNMP , REST API , WMI , flow protocols such as Netflow, and hardware -specific sensors for switches, routers and servers. PRTG Network Monitor has more than 200 different predefined sensors that query statistics from the monitored instances (for example response times, processor utilization, storage space, database information, system states or data via APIs ).
service
The software can be operated completely via a web interface. The web interface is suitable for troubleshooting in real time as well as for exchanging data with non-technical employees via so-called maps (dashboards) and user-defined reports. An additional desktop interface for Windows , Linux and macOS is currently in beta status.
Licensing
The licensing of PRTG depends on the number of sensors required. Larger networks require more sensors and thus a larger license for comprehensive monitoring. A version with 100 integrated sensors is available free of charge.
distribution
PRTG Network Monitor's target group are network administrators of small and medium-sized companies. According to its own information, PRTG has 200,000 customers worldwide.
Awards
- IT-Administrator magazine tool of the year 2012
- Funkschau ITK Products of the Year Readers' Choice Category "Datacenter Monitoring / Management" 2016
- IP Insider Readers' Choice Award Network Monitoring 2016
- IP Insider Readers' Choice Award Network Monitoring 2017
- IP Insider Readers' Choice Award Network Monitoring 2018
- IP Insider Readers' Choice Award Network Monitoring 2019
literature
- Thomas Bär, Frank-Michael Schlede: The most useful tools for networks . In: Computerwoche . February 4, 2015 ( computerwoche.de ).
- Andrés, Steven, Brian Kenyon, and Erik Pack Birkholz. Security Sage's guide to hardening the network infrastructure . Elsevier, 2004.
- Elsayed, Abdellatief, and Nashwa Abdelbaki. "Performance evaluation and comparison of the top market virtualization hypervisors." Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES), 2013 8th International Conference on . IEEE, 2013.
Web links
- German language tests
- English language tests
Individual evidence
- ↑ PRTG Network Monitor Release Notes . Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ↑ Mike Williams: PRTG Network Monitor 18.3.43.2323 | Software download (en-GB) . In: ComputerworldUK .
- ↑ Our history: Paessler AG. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Paessler offers PRTG network monitoring from the cloud - silicon.de . In: silicon.de . October 19, 2017 ( silicon.de [accessed October 18, 2018]).
- ↑ a b Authors: Thomas Bär and Frank-Michael Schlede: The appropriate monitoring. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ PRTG Desktop. Accessed August 26, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Sascha Neumeier: PRTG Desktop for Linux available as Public Beta NOW! Retrieved August 26, 2020 (American English).
- ↑ Paessler PRTG Network Monitor . In: PCMag UK . April 16, 2018 ( pcmag.com [accessed October 18, 2018]).
- ↑ About us - Paessler AG. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ Awards. Retrieved October 18, 2018 .
- ↑ These are the winners of the IT Awards 2018. Accessed August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ These are the winners of the IT Awards 2019. Accessed on August 26, 2020 .