Free Internet Connection Monitoring with PRTG

Track network gremlins like a master sleuth

When it comes to connectivity for your organization, you have no time for hit-and-miss troubleshooting. Your job is to identify and squash internet connection issues faster than they can damage your systems or network, and we make it easier.

PRTG is your ever-vigilant sidekick, highlighting traffic patterns and watching your connection stability, ready to alert you to any downtime or performance degradation.

Net top-tier traffic analysis

You need top-tier forensic tools to protect your internet connection. Depending on the router, PRTG uses a combination of protocols such as SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and packet sniffing to give you an exhaustive look into your internet traffic.

Capture every detail of usage patterns, trace bandwidth hogs to their source, and spot suspicious traffic that could signal security threats.

Dial in your distress signals

As the organization's IT hero, you want your early warning system to make sense. Make PRTG’s internet connectivity monitoring your own with highly customizable sensors and alerting systems.

Set and forget performance thresholds on your internet traffic to get instant email, SMS, or push notifications when something sets off the alarm bells. With this approach, you can stay ahead of downtime and bandwidth bottlenecks, and you can do it on your lunch break.

Declutter your digital domain

Having lots of tech gadgets is cool, but a unified tool that does more is even better. PRTG internet connectivity monitoring provides everything you need to view your infrastructure under one clean, concise dashboard.

PRTG reduces overall complexity, keeping your network more secure and efficient. Fewer tools to juggle may mean less excitement, but it gives you more time to work on other important tasks.

Lock down your internet connection

Strong security measures are an integral part of a healthy, reliable network. PRTG uses robust methods to protect your diagnostic data from unwanted prying.

All connections between the PRTG server, sensors, and clients are secured with SSL/TLS, keeping your monitoring data confidential and tamper-proof. PRTG supports only the most secure ciphers for SSL/TLS connections.

Check availability and load time

There are several ways to monitor your network’s internet connection with PRTG:

• You can use the Ping v2 sensor to ping the IP address of web pages at regular intervals and check if they’re reachable.
• The HTTP v2 sensor monitors the load time of a website or component. It lets you check the length of time required to load specific content.

Solve internet connectivity issues

If you have issues with your internet connection and need to know where the problem lies pinpoint the location as follows:

• First, figure out all hops between you and the device you are trying to connect with the Traceroute Hop Count sensor
• Then create a device for each of the hosts and add a Ping v2 or a Ping Jitter sensor to each.

Now, you can see which hop or which router is introducing the issues in your connection.

Monitor DNS server performance

If you want to make sure the DNS server is up and running and performing as intended, you can do the following:

• Use the Port Range sensor to establish a connection with the service on the particular server. Find out if the device is reachable through the network, or if the operating system on the device is active and managing connections.
• Check the performance of your DNS server by adding a DNS v2 sensor to the device and querying a record. Find out if the DNS service is doing its job of resolving DNS records and, if you pick one of your own website DNS records, if your records resolve correctly