Paessler PRTG Reviews

Overall, it seems that the overall ability of the PRTG is still evident to all, all aspects are in a relatively balanced posture, there is no special place to excel, there are not too many shortcomings, just like the barrel effect, very balanced.
And to be able to integrate so many functions in such a lightweight volume I think is its greatest feature.
And the speed of PRTG updates is also very fast, which is a good sign for an IT company.

It's hard to believe that PRTG can do so much in such a small size!
It can basically meet all your network, server, application, storage, and virtualization needs.
The most memorable thing for me was PRTG's ability to grab the data that needed to be monitored at a very fast frequency.
So I think PRTG is light, fast, simple and easy to use.

After all, the size is here, and it is extravagant to think that PRTG can achieve more perfect functions. The disadvantage is that it cannot achieve the IP address management and configuration management necessary in network management.
Also the topology diagram is a factor that I don't like, PRTG's topology diagram does not allow for high degree of freedom of connection.

Overall, I am quite satisfied with the product. It has eased the network administrators to view and monitor traffic trending before looking at upgrading our infra. Engineering and Operation able to work together to accomplish same objective, to monitor network performance and plan for upgrades.

Monitoring network is now made easy with PRTG.
-Easy setup within 5-10mins to monitor few network elements.
-User friendly, able to allow user with read only access and availability of stats/data historically.
-Able to customize few graphs in one single view
-Lightweight software, doesn't have install separate services to run SMTP, webservices, etc.

The only cons, I think would be not able to set the alarms monitoring to only triggers during the selected period. (say between 8pm-11pm is the peak hours, I want the lower threshold alert to be triggered at this hour)

I use the product for surveillance and system monitoring in an enterprise environment on a daily basis.

Continuous development and updating as well as specialist support are trump cards in an enterprise environment.

It should also be possible to use it on linux systems as well as for windows ones.

However, PRTG is a great monitor tool. It helps us to review whole devices and servers' status so we can manage them easily.

Have a whole monitor view for my network devices, I can adjust the monitor settings easily. And handle multi-model devices & servers.

There are still some kinds of devices' sensors need to be created by default library.

Incredible monitoring platform that provides perpetual licensing and self-hosting. What's not to like?

Setting up devices and monitors is painless and simple.
Web interface is easy to work with and manage.
Desktop and mobile applications are easy to work with and work very well.
Their support is top notch and very responsive.

Configuration of Antivirus can be a bit troublesome as some AVs like to mess with PRTG and its performance.

We supervise our whole IT in only a few hours and the creation of maps is really efficient.

PRTG is really easy to use. Very simple and efficient to use.

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Their update process is the easiest and most reliable of any monitoring solution I've used. Most monitoring and alerting systems require months of work to deploy where PRTG is useful within a few days of effort.

Fast and easy to deploy with a large feature set.
It scales well by using multiple probes.
The desktop client is nice.
Security assignments are easy when they are tied to Active Directory Groups.

Map design is more difficult than it should be and they have an outdated look to them.

As someone who has only tried the software, not a habitual user of it for several months, I'm not that impressed. I'm sure it's good at what it does, but I'm just not finding a good spot for it in my tool box.

It is a very thorough network scanner, and gives you tons of information about every device it scans.

Not the most intuitive interface. Same device may show up in several different places based on how it categorizes it, and there doesn't appear to be an easy way to hide it from the redundant sections or move it to just one of them. We use certain IP address ranges for certain job functions and it was more difficult than necessary to basically draw fences around the ones I thought should be grouped. Also, this thing is slow. Advanced IP scanner takes about 3 minutes to scan the network and provide quite a bit of information. PRTG ran for 3 days and I still don't know if it was done.

Using it for many years now and very happy with if, when adding a new device to it need to spend a little time to customize alert before it floods your mailbox.

- Many and many different sensors
- A lot of resources and knowledge base articles
- Frequent updates

- Can get pricey
- Needs a lot of customization
- Many false alerts