Hard disk monitoring with PRTG
Optimize the performance and security of your hard drives
- Monitor all your network's hard drives 24/7 from one dashboard
- Get alerted before you run out of hard disk storage to prevent failures
- Plug-and-play setup compatible with Windows, Linux, and Unix operating systems
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG hard disk monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes hard disk monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent hard drive health, performance, and storage issues.
Never get caught out by a full hard disk drive with PRTG
Is there anything more frustrating than thinking you've saved a document, only for your changes to disappear? Or waiting patiently for a critical update that aborts at the last minute?
Hard disk storage is important for all sorts of processes across your organization. But when you've got a million and one things to do, monitoring it can easily slip your mind.
With the Paessler PRTG hard disk check program, available system memory is one less thing on your plate.
Running unobtrusively in the background, PRTG regulates available hard disk space and alerts you when it's low, giving you the peace of mind that you won't get caught out and hard disk performance is always optimized.
4 compelling reasons to choose PRTG as your hard disk monitoring tool
Plug-and-play setup
PRTG automatically recognizes all existing hard drives, statuses, and free disk space. There's no need to fiddle about with system settings or hardware detection tools.
Set it and forget it
Set warning and error thresholds and get on with more important jobs. PRTG alerts you when disk space and other detailed information of any storage device goes below the defined value, so you can act before it's too late.
Track hard disk health
PRTG helps you quickly identify system issues or underperforming hardware, and prevent errors, system failures, and other costly technical problems. Even network file systems get checked.
Start monitoring your hard disks with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring
“All-around winning
network monitor”
“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”
“PRTG Network Monitor
is very hard to beat”
What hard disk health monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking physical drives. Show hard disk space, disk utility, SSD and HDD health, drive performance, 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 hard drive failures and degradations, as well as storage and data recovery issues.
NetApp Physical Disk v2 sensor
Complete monitoring overview in device tree format in PRTG
SNMP Dell PowerEdge Physical Disk sensor
What you can monitor and track with PRTG
What does PRTG monitor?
PRTG comes with sophisticated, preconfigured sensors to show available disk space on:
- Physical disks
- External drives
- Web servers
- File servers
- Applications
- Other servers, including SMB network file systems
It also performs health checks and monitors performance, alerting you when there's a risk of errors. And it can even check if a specific file exists on your network, and log modifications to files you've flagged.
What values does PRTG track?
Each sensor operates 24/7 tracking values across your whole network, including:
- Total disk space in Windows, Linux, and Unix
- Disk space and performance of storage area networks (SANs)
- Network-attached storage (NAS) of popular vendors
- Hard disk health, including file integrity, hard disk temperature, and other attributes, as well as speed, responsiveness, and errors
- Free and total space of SMB file network systems
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG hard disk sentinel 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 hard drive 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!
SNMP HPE ProLiant Physical Disk
Start monitoring your hard disks with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
Your hard disk monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s partners
Partnering with innovative vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
ScriptRunner
With ScriptRunner, Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.
UVnetworks
UVexplorer integrates tightly with PRTG to bring fast and accurate network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network mapping to the PRTG platform.
PRTG makes hard disk monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent hard drive health, performance, and storage issues.
“Excellent tool for detailed monitoring. Alarms and notifications work greatly. Equipment addition is straight forward and server initial setup is very easy. ...feel safe to purchase it if you intend to monitor a large networking landscape.”
Infrastructure and Operations Engineer in the Communications Industry, firm size 10B - 30B USD
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
We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins.
The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Still not convinced?
More than 500,000
sysadmins love PRTG
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Monitor your entire IT infrastructure
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Try Paessler PRTG
for free
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
Start monitoring your hard disks with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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PRTG |
Network Monitoring Software - Version 25.1.104.1946 (March 18th, 2025) |
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Hosting |
Download for Windows and cloud-based version PRTG Hosted Monitor available |
Languages |
English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Russian, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese |
Pricing |
Up to 100 sensors for free (Price List) |
Unified Monitoring |
Network devices, bandwidth, servers, applications, virtual environments, remote systems, IoT, and more |
Supported Vendors & Applications |
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