Storage performance monitoring with PRTG
Easily spot performance issues & optimize storage capacity planning
- Ensure optimal performance of your storage systems
- Keep track of hard drives, cloud storage, databases, and more
- Get a 24/7 overview as well as detailed long-term statistics
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PRTG storage performance monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes storage management as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent storage performance bottlenecks.
4 reasons to use PRTG as your storage performance monitoring tool
Although most data storage devices have their own built-in monitoring system, they are limited to the devices’ functionality and don’t see the full picture. Paessler PRTG’s comprehensive, all-in-one network monitoring software is therefore critical to map your storage system as well as your entire IT infrastructure in a central overview.
Avoid costly downtime
PRTG helps you avoid negative business impact due to storage problems and even downtime of the complete system by monitoring all storage components 24/7.
This means monitoring hardware and application health and availability – and, sometimes even more important, performance.
Wide vendor compatibility
With PRTG, you can monitor hardware storage devices of the most popular manufacturers out of the box, for example Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, IBM, Lenovo, Synology, QNAP, and Buffalo.
You run your storage infrastructure in the cloud? No problem. PRTG’s preconfigured sensors also include cloud service providers like AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
Comprehensive monitoring
Use PRTG to keep an eye on the performance of almost every hardware and software component in classic IT environments you can think of.
Switches, CPUs, servers, databases, backup software, virtual hosts – with our monitoring software, you can rest assured that your entire network is taken care of.
Custom alerts & notifications
Make sure your storage infrastructure monitoring is always targeted and aligned with the specific requirements of your network.
Set performance thresholds and let PRTG notify you via email, SMS, push notification, or other methods as soon as they’re breached.
What storage performance monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the performance of storage devices, storage arrays, storage pools, and other storage resources. Show response time, read/write speed, latency, throughput, CPU and memory usage, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot slowdowns and even outages in your storage environment.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Preconfigured Microsoft Azure Storage Account sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Start monitoring storage performance with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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All you storage performance key stats at a glance
Performance everywhere
Track the performance of all your storage components from one place: read/write speed, data traffic, bandwidth usage, CPU load, memory usage, storage capacity, and much more. PRTG monitors everything round the clock, showing you detailed stats in intuitive, user-friendly dashboards.
Notifications in real time
Nip potentially serious storage issues such as bottlenecks or low storage space in the bud. Pick your preferred warning and error thresholds, and PRTG will email, text, or send an in-app notification when you're at risk of going under or over, so you can fix them promptly and avoid disruption (and colleagues' complaints).
Proactive resource planning
Your CEO has big growth plans. But can your storage infrastructure support them? PRTG puts key performance data – live data or historical data of up to 365 days – at your fingertips, so you can spot where you're under- or over-resourced, and make better-informed choices on what storage devices, systems, and services to invest.
Complete customization
Your network, your rules. Tailor PRTG's powerful and flexible storage monitoring software so it meets your exact needs. Choose which storage components and parameters to track, and how PRTG presents the data. In fact, why not use our built-in, drag-and-drop map editor to design your own individual dashboard?
Your storage performance monitor at a glance – even on the go
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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG storage performance monitoring solution
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for storage performance monitoring
PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!
Dell EMC Unity Storage Capacity v2
The Dell EMC Unity Storage Capacity v2 sensor monitors the storage capacity of a Dell EMC Unity storage system. It can show the following:
- Free and used size
- Pre-allocated and subscribed size
- Total size
NetApp I/O v2
The NetApp I/O v2 sensor monitors input and output operations of a NetApp storage system using ONTAP. It can show the following:
- Number of bytes read and written
- CIFS, FCP, iSCSI, and NFS read and write speed
- Number of CIFS, FCP, iSCSI, and NFS operations
- Total number of operations
SNMP Buffalo TS System Health
The SNMP Buffalo TS System Health sensor monitors the system health of a Buffalo TeraStation network-attached storage (NAS). It can show the following:
- Average CPU load
- Available memory
- Number of errors and warnings
- Failover status
- If a firmware update is available
Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device
The Hyper-V Virtual Storage Device sensor monitors a virtual storage device that runs on a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:
- Number of errors
- Read and write speed
Microsoft Azure Storage Account
The Microsoft Azure Storage Account sensor monitors the storage account in a Microsoft Azure subscription. It can show the following:
- Average E2E latency
- Total number of requests made to the storage service
- Latency of the storage
- Total egress and ingress
- Used capacity
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PRTG makes storage management as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent storage performance bottlenecks.
Storage performance monitoring: FAQ
What is storage performance?
Storage performance is a critical indicator of how well storage devices are performing. Storage performance metrics help you assess the effectiveness of your storage system and its ability to support your business organization. Storage performance has become a kind of bottleneck in data processing, which is why storage devices often have to meet various metrics.
There are several organizations that help standardize storage performance metrics, including the Microsoft Exchange Solution Reviewed Program (ESRP) and the Storage Performance Council (SPC). The former is primarily a Microsoft Exchange Server program designed to simplify third-party storage testing and release solutions for Exchange Server. The latter is likewise an American organization that has taken up the cause of optimizing the performance of storage systems. To this end, SPC initiates and carries out benchmark tests. The organization also wants to support and implement storage standards. Listed below are some of the most common storage performance metrics:
- Input/output operations per second (IOPS)
- Meantime between failures (MTBF)
- Meantime to recovery (MTTR)
- Percent utilization
- Response time
- Read and write speed
What is storage performance monitoring?
Storage performance monitoring (SPM) refers to the process of measuring, analyzing, and managing the performance of data storage systems. It ensures that the storage infrastructure (including hard drives, SSDs, RAID systems, SANs, and NAS) operates efficiently, meeting the performance and availability requirements of applications and users. By monitoring various metrics and behaviors of storage systems, SPM helps identify performance bottlenecks, optimize data access speeds, and maintain reliability.
Key components of SPM include:
- Latency: Measures the time it takes for a storage system to respond to a read/write request. Lower latency indicates faster performance.
- Throughput: The amount of data processed by the storage system over a given period, usually measured in MB/s or GB/s.
- IOPS (Input/Output Operations per Second): The number of read and write operations the storage system can handle per second.
- Capacity utilization: Tracks how much storage space is being used and how much is available.
- Queue depth: The number of storage operations waiting to be processed, which can indicate potential bottlenecks.
What do consumer-driven advances in computer technology mean for storage systems?
Storage systems have always been of vital importance for processes in companies and are therefore a core element of any IT concept. Failures can not only have fatal consequences for business success but even small performance losses can cause serious consequential problems in IT. This is true for a network-attached storage (NAS) in a small business as well as for a huge Storage Area Network (SAN) in an enterprise environment.
The rapid, often consumer-driven advances in computer technology have focused mostly on computing power rather than on the aspect of storage. CPU and GPU have grown, while system storage such as the hard disk drive has made only moderate progress and changed less significantly. Even if processor technology is reaching its physical limits, its capacity has improved a lot whereas the performance of the hard disk often cannot keep up with the performance of the processor.
Why should you monitor storage performance with PRTG?
PRTG helps prevent storage system failures, which can have fatal consequences for business success. In fact, even small performance losses can cause serious consequential problems in IT. This is true for a NAS in a small business as well as for a huge SAN in an enterprise environment. PRTG helps you prevent storage issues and ensure your storage system is optimized for peak performance.
What is a sensor in PRTG?
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive.
On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
PRTG: The multi-tool for sysadmins
Adapt PRTG individually and dynamically to your needs and rely on a strong API:- HTTP API: Access monitoring data and manipulate monitoring objects via HTTP requests
- Custom sensors: Create your own PRTG sensors for customized monitoring
- Custom notifications: Create your own notifications and send action triggers to external systems
- REST Custom sensor: Monitor almost everything that provides data in XML or JSON format
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Over 95% of our customers say yes!
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier. Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network. Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.Still not convinced?
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