Paessler PRTG Reviews 1,159

Tools is very good and useful in analysis of network monitoring. Desktop and services are very useful and recommend to use other people also.
I am very thankful of PRTG for their fantastic tools for providing me.

Thanks & regards

Vinod

Tons of features, options and excellent documentation. Free version is a great gift for small home network users - Thank you Paessler. Learning curve can be a bit steep but it worth its weigh in gold.

good useful business tool, need care and understanding (learning on practice) meanwhile.. Much thanks to developers!

very good free program . thanks for free . thanks a lot .

It's great knowing if one of the 15 million things in our environment isn't working properly - helping us avoid as many phone calls as possible.

I likeit and verrygoods

So Far So Good, Will Update my review in 30 Days so I can try FREE Version. Sorry Paessler, I dont have a credit or debit card.

Hi,
I have a question. Is it possible to monitor the event viewer in PRTG? If so, how does it use technology.
Thank you for your response.

I have installed and managed at least a dozen different monitoring and alerting systems over the last 30 years and PRTG is one of the easiest to install and manage. There are others with slicker interfaces but PRTG gets you up and operational almost immediately where others will take months to become functional. Their update system is the easiest to apply. It is essentially one click to upgrade all the primary servers and probes within a PRTG environment.

PRTG is a Great Tool. After many many years using PRTG i finally got around to creating a map! now using it as my network admin Heat Map!

Great product. Been a user (business) for about 5 years at the 5000 sensor license. Best feature - fast interface. Seriously, if you're used to certain "big" monitoring solutions this is an order of magnitude faster. Easy to get going off the bat to just explore what you can monitor. I'm on the network side and we use this internally for our team. The "standard monitoring" tool here that generates tickets is another product (the big one) that has a terribly slow interface, and requires 10x the proc/mem to run - also runs on the same OS.

PROs:
-FAST interface, especially compared to other Enterprise monitoring products
-Easy to configure default settings for SNMP to get going - the hierarchical design of these settings being pushed down to devices under locations is a real time saver
-Licensing is very fair
-Configurable maps with public view (no login) - helps when you want to let a non-technical user see some monitoring for something specific
-Upgrade available from web console with overview of release notes and links directly to page with more details
-Support team is easy to work with and has been quick to respond
-Free sensors to play with for the unlicensed version if you want to get your feet wet or play with it at home

CONs:
-Windows only - would like to eventually see a Linux release - but with the current stability and performance it doesn't seem to be an issue.
-Maps can leave a bit to be desired if you want to use this as an Ops "dashboard"
-netflow/ipfix display is lacking - with that said I wouldn't deduct any stars. This product isn't marketed as a flow collector, and most organizations are (or should be) running a dedicated flow collector.
-Adding custom MIBs needs to be done from the server directly, you can't do this via the web interface. It's easy to do this via the server, but users that may not have access to the server directly should be able to add MIBs (RBAC and all of that).

All in all a great product that should be considered for any monitoring solution bake off with other vendors. It looks like they have ServiceNow integration at this point so probably a contender to the top name.

I'm just a regular PC-user that occurred some networking problems. I used this software to localize the problem and monitor it after

I must admit the help provided by support through help forum are very efficient and helpful !
Thanks a lot, it helped me to solve a few problems i could turn around without any result if done all by myself.
Mant thanks.

Highly professional product.
We recommend it!