PRTG Manual: Common SaaS Sensor
The Common SaaS sensor monitors the availability of several software as a service (SaaS) providers.
With this sensor, you can get alarms if your cloud services are not reachable.
For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.
- Dutch: Algemene SaaS
- French: SaaS courants
- German: Verbreitete SaaS-Dienste
- Japanese: Common SaaS
- Portuguese: SaaS Comuns
- Russian: Общий для SaaS
- Simplified Chinese: 常用 SaaS
- Spanish: SaaS común
Consider the following remarks and requirements for this sensor:
Remark |
Description |
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Internet access |
This sensor requires that the probe system has access to the internet. |
IPv6 |
This sensor supports IPv6. |
Performance impact |
This sensor has a very low performance impact. |
Limits |
This sensor has predefined limits for several metrics. |
Scanning interval |
This sensor has a fixed scanning interval of 15 minutes. You cannot change it. |
Sensor creation |
PRTG automatically creates this sensor on every probe device. If the probe system has no connection to the internet, manually pause or delete this sensor to avoid error messages. |
The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:
- commonsaas
- saas
For more information about basic sensor settings, see section Sensor Settings.
Setting |
Description |
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Result Handling |
Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:
This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node. |
Setting |
Description |
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Primary Channel |
Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor. You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab. |
Graph Type |
Define how this sensor shows different channels:
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Stack Unit |
This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above. Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so. |
By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.
For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.
Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.
Channel |
Description |
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Available Services |
The available services (%) This channel is the primary channel by default. This channel has default limits:
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Bing |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Downtime |
In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status |
Dropbox |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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GitHub |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Google Apps |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Office 365 |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
Salesforce |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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Youtube |
The response time of the SaaS provider |
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