Network reporting tool with PRTG

Q: What is network reporting?

Network reporting is an important tool for network administrators that allows them to visualize various data about network performance. Using network reports, administrators can identify and correct errors, optimize network performance, and make other important decisions. Read more

Q: Why is network reporting used?

With the help of network reports, you can structure and organize many important metrics of your network in a way that is easy to view and analyze. Analyzing reports allows you to find network bottlenecks, improve performance, predict future network performance, and make critical decisions about changes and upgrades. Read more

Q: What is a network reporting tool?

Network monitoring software must be able to collect and analyze data from various network devices such as routers, switches, servers, firewalls, load balancers, and systems and applications. Network reporting tools present this collected data in the form of connected reports. Network reports are a valuable tool for administrators because they allow them to identify network trends, evaluate overall performance metrics, improve productivity, find the root cause of errors, and troubleshoot issues. Because a network consists of many components and has many indicators of its operation and performance, there are a lot of different types of reports. The process of their creation and analysis can be quite a difficult task. Therefore, the network reporting tool must allow administrators to provide access to historical data and customize reports in a way that only relevant data is included. Read more

Create comprehensive reports while monitoring your entire IT infrastructure

Create automated, easy-to-read or more in-depth reports
Visualize & analyze historical data the way you want
Preconfigured report templates for quick deployment

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PRTG network reporting tool: What you'll find on this page

The challenge: How to choose the best network reporting tool?
The solution: Create & configure reports easily with our PRTG network reporting solution
What network reporting looks like in PRTG
All benefits of PRTG reports at a glance
5 advantages of using the PRTG network reporting software

PRTG makes network reporting as easy as it gets

Custom reports and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent network issues.

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The challenge: How to choose the best network reporting tool?

Choosing the best network reporting tool depends on your needs but there are a few basic requirements to keep in mind.

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Easy data source integration

Define the list of devices you want to use as data sources. For example, servers, load balancers, switches, routers, etc. These determine the number of sensors and the amount of bandwidth you need.

The more detailed information you want to collect, the more resources will be needed and the higher the costs. Moreover, it should be easy to integrate devices from different manufacturers.

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Unified data display window

Choose a network reporting solution that can collect and process data from different network devices and analyze them all together. This way, you don’t need to switch between different user interfaces to analyze data from different sources.

Instead, you'll get a clear view of your network's health using a single window for displaying the data and generating comprehensive reports.

Automated reports

As a network administrator, you often spend tons of time reviewing all the historical data collected from various logs. To make this process quicker and easier, you should have a network reporting tool that not only gathers all collected data in one place but also lets you configure when and where to receive automated reports.

High scalability

The cost of a network monitoring & reporting tool usually depends on the number of devices and metrics of your network. When expanding the network, it is important to be able to monitor more devices and their metrics – that is, to scale up in an easy way.

In addition, it is important that the solution you choose can work with on-premises and hybrid infrastructures and cloud solutions alike.

The solution: Create & configure reports easily with PRTG

Paessler PRTG makes it easy to create reports and analyze data over a period of time (including historical data). You have the option to create reports for all PRTG sensors or only for specific ones.

Create reports quickly & easily

The process of creating reports is simple and intuitive. Choose a template and add the sensors from which you want to include data in the report. Set the time period for which you want to display the data. For performance reasons, PRTG automatically averages monitoring data when calculating data for large time periods.

In addition, be sure to specify whether the report will be generated on a schedule or only as needed. If according to a schedule, it’s necessary to indicate at what time intervals the report should be generated. You can specify the email address to which to send the finished report.

Use preconfigured or custom reports

You can generate reports on demand or via schedules. PRTG generates reports in HTML, PDF, CSV, or XML format. In addition, there is an option to create specific HTML reports about your system configuration.

PRTG report templates define the overall look of your report and the granularity of your monitoring data. You can include, for example, raw data and extensive value tables for your IT colleagues in your report, or you include only data graphs for a more high-level overview for the management, for example.

Restrict user access for more security

By using our network reporting tool, you can be sure that monitoring data is only available to you and the users to whom you have given access. PRTG uses modern technologies for network security:

SSL encryption (HTTPS, TLS, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Forward Secrecy)
RSA certificate with 2048 bits
Tools to protect against various types of attacks, including cross-site scripting, directory traversal, and SQL injection attacks
Ability to manage access rights for each user account and for each user group
And much more

Start network reporting with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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What network reporting looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking and comparing both live data and historical data and generating in-depth network reports. Show the availability, health, and performance of your enterprise network infrastructure and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards, and use network mapping to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot your entire network.

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