Data center humidity monitoring with PRTG
Continuously track server room humidity levels as well as other environmental conditions
- Measure the relative humidity of your data center facilities 24/7
- Monitor humidity in industrial IT and IIoT environments
- Prevent costly equipment failure due to hardware damage
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PRTG data center humidity monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
- 5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your data center humidity monitoring tool
- What data center humidity monitoring looks like in PRTG
- Monitor humidity in industrial settings with preconfigured PRTG sensors
- Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for data center temperature monitoring
- Monitoring data center humidity: FAQ
PRTG makes data center humidity monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent potential threats to your critical infrastructure
5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your data center humidity monitoring tool
Customizable & easy to use
Paessler PRTG is intuitive to use and customize. Not only can you set your own humidity thresholds, but you can also customize the intervals at which data is recorded.
In fact, you can even choose your notification methods like push notification, SMS, email, and more, designate who receives alerts, and limit alerts to specific time periods (for example, only during business hours).
Reliable and comprehensive
Our comprehensive monitoring system keeps an eye on all the environmental values in your data center, including temperature, energy consumption, or water leaks.
If a threshold value is exceeded, PRTG immediately sends you an alert. This allows you to immediately take action in the event of potentially dangerous changes in the conditions of the computer room or the entire data center building.
Optimizes resource usage
insight into ways to optimize your data center’s environmental conditions.
Use hardware humidity sensors and temperature sensors, for example, at strategic points in your facilities to collect data, and integrate it into your monitoring. This way, you can keep an optimal room temperature and humidity level for your hardware, and even reduce energy consumption.
Monitors your entire network
PRTG is an all-in-one network monitoring tool that goes beyond humidity levels to monitor your local and remote networks, as well as your entire IT infrastructure. It constantly checks hardware, applications, services, data traffic, availability, performance, databases, and much more.
This means you have a complete overview of your network and the physical security of your data center facilities, all in a single pane of glass. No need to switch between multiple tools.
Offers features other tools don’t
PRTG can be the single solution you’ve been looking for, as each subscription also includes:
- Customizable reports, on demand or scheduled
- Custom maps and dashboards for viewing monitoring data
- Multiple notification options, including escalation levels
- Simplified configuration with automatic network discovery
- Preconfigured sensors to display monitoring data
What data center humidity monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking data center cooling systems and the humidity in server rooms and enclosures. Show uptime, humidity levels, temperature ranges, 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 problems due to moisture or too dry air.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Preconfigured SNMP InterSeptor Pro Environment sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Start monitoring humidity in your data center environment with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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Monitor humidity in industrial settings with preconfigured PRTG sensors
Industrial production managers also need to keep a constant eye on the temperature and humidity in their facilities. PRTG also monitors environmental conditions in industrial environments, and comes with a variety of preconfigured sensors for IT, OT, IoT, and IIoT systems.
Modbus RTU systems
The Modbus RTU Custom sensor is perfect for monitoring remote terminal units (RTUs). Among other things, this sensor conveniently monitors temperature and humidity, as well as voltage, air conditioning, and other configurable values.
Rittal climate control
PRTG also monitors Rittal climate control solutions for example Rittal Computer Multi Control version 3 (CMC III) processing units, Rittal power distribution units (PDU), or Rittal IoT interfaces. We recommend the preconfigured SNMP Rittal CMC III Hardware Status sensor for this purpose.
IoT-enabled systems
For IoT-enabled devices (such as hardware sensors that measure humidity), PRTG offers the manufacturer-independent HTTP IoT Push Data Advanced sensor. This sensor presents the data from your IoT sensors in a human-readable format.
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Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for data center humidity 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!
Modbus RTU Custom
The Modbus RTU Custom sensor connects to a Modbus Remote Terminal Unit (RTU) server and monitors up to ten returned numeric values. It can show the following:
- Downtime
- Custom numeric values
SNMP Rittal CMC III Hardware Status
The SNMP Rittal CMC III Hardware Status sensor monitors the overall status of Rittal data center hardware, for example Rittal Computer Multi Control version 3 (CMC III) processing units, Rittal power distribution units (PDU), or Rittal IoT interfaces. It can show the following:
- Overall device status
- Attached external sensor status
HTTP IoT Push Data Advanced
The HTTP IoT Push Data Advanced sensor displays data from messages that are received from Internet of Things (IoT) capable devices and that are pushed via an HTTPS request to PRTG. It can show the following:
- Downtime
- Data received from the message encoded in valid XML or JSON in several channels
SNMP interSeptor Pro Environment
The SNMP interSeptor Pro Environment sensor queries data from a Jacarta interSeptor Pro environmental monitoring system. It can show the following:
- Humidity
- Temperature
SNMP Poseidon Environment
The SNMP Poseidon Environment sensor monitors performance counters for environmental measurements on Poseidon hardware. It can show the following:
- Humidity
- Temperature
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PRTG makes data center humidity monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent potential threats to your critical infrastructure.
Monitoring data center humidity: FAQ
What are the benefits of monitoring humidity in data centers?
Monitoring humidity in data centers is crucial for maintaining an optimal environment for sensitive electronic equipment. Here are the benefits of monitoring humidity levels:
- Preventing electrostatic discharge (ESD) due to low humidity
- Avoiding condensation damage due to high humidity
- Optimizing cooling strategies for balanced airflows
- Upholding warranty requirements by manufacturers
- Prolonging hardware life by reducing wear and tear caused by corrosion
- Ensuring uninterrupted performance and data integrity by protecting sensitive components
- Saving operational costs by optimizing energy and resource usage
- Providing real-time alerts when humidity deviates from optimal ranges
What causes humidity to rise in data centers?
Data centers and production facilities are subject to regular fluctuations in temperature and humidity. There are several factors that cause the relative humidity in a data center to rise. For one thing, moisture can accumulate due to insufficient or intentionally low ventilation. Evaporation of water and evaporation from materials can also occur. Even emissions from hardware, equipment, and machinery increase humidity.
What is the best humidity level for server rooms and data centers?
The ideal humidity level for server rooms and data centers typically falls within the range of 40% to 60% relative humidity (RH), as recommended by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE).
Why is it important to protect data centers from humidity?
Systems and server racks in the server room are highly sensitive to environmental conditions. These rooms must therefore be monitored digitally to ensure their relative humidity always falls within an acceptable range.
The relative humidity in the server room is too low:
If the air is too dry, physical devices can become charged with static electricity. In the event of a static discharge, hardware can become damaged. If a server room stays too dry for too long, systems and servers can crash and cause downtime.
The relative humidity in the server room is too high:
High humidity in the server room can cause metal hardware to corrode. Corroded IT equipment, transformers, generators, and other devices must be replaced. High humidity can also cause condensation to form on hardware, potentially leading to short circuits. Furthermore, humidity is famous for causing mold, which can cause long-term damage to buildings and be extremely expensive to remove.
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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