SAN monitoring with PRTG
Monitor storage resources and build a superior area storage network strategy
- Ensure your SAN operates at peak efficiency without unexpected slowdowns
- Receive immediate notifications on critical SAN health and performance metrics
- Leverage intuitive dashboards for a comprehensive view of your SAN's health
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG SAN monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes SAN storage monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent SAN performance issues.
Maximize your storage infrastructure’s performance and reliability
Ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of your storage area network (SAN) is crucial for the smooth operation of your business's critical applications and services. Paessler PRTG offers a 360-degree view of your SAN infrastructure, ensuring high availability and performance while minimizing risks associated with data loss and downtime.
Proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks
Keep your storage system running at peak efficiency with PRTG's detailed performance tracking. Monitor throughput, IOPS, and network latency across all SAN components.
Quickly identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks or abnormal performance degradation. This proactive approach helps maintain a seamless data flow and optimizes your network's overall performance.
Ensure continuous SAN health with real-time alerts
Stay ahead of potential issues with customizable, real-time alerts on the health and status of your SAN infrastructure.
Whether it's hardware failures, capacity thresholds, or unexpected changes in performance, PRTG sends immediate notifications to designated stakeholders, allowing for swift action to prevent downtime and ensure continuous data availability.
Optimize capacity planning with detailed usage insights
Effective storage management is key to a scalable and efficient network. With PRTG SAN monitoring tools, gain in-depth insights into storage utilization and growth trends across disks, arrays, and pools.
These insights enable precise storage capacity planning, helping you make informed decisions about expansions, upgrades, and optimizations to support your organization's data storage needs.
Streamline SAN monitoring with an intuitive dashboard
Simplify your SAN monitoring with PRTG's intuitive and customizable dashboards. Gain a centralized view of your storage network's performance, capacity, and health metrics at a glance.
This centralized oversight allows for easy monitoring and management, saving time and reducing complexity in overseeing your SAN environment.
What SAN monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your storage area network, including SAN switches and routers, server performance, and more, all from a single pane of glass. Show uptime, bandwidth usage, IOPs, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and topology maps to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot all kinds of SAN infrastructure performance issues.
Device tree overview of the complete monitoring setup
SSH SAN System Health sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for monitoring storage systems
Start SAN monitoring with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
5 reasons to choose PRTG as your SAN monitoring tool
Comprehensive storage network monitoring
PRTG offers extensive network monitoring capabilities across your SAN. From individual disks to entire storage arrays, PRTG helps you ensure every component is under surveillance for optimal performance and reliability.
Real-time performance insights
Monitor key performance metrics in real-time to immediately identify and resolve issues that could impact your SAN's efficiency and the availability of critical services, and to ensure your co-workers are able to access SAN data without delays.
Customizable alerting & notification system
Tailor alerts to meet the specific needs of your SAN environment and only get the notifications you want. Set device-level thresholds from critical for highly sensitive devices to warning for non-critical or low-sensitivity network devices.
Effortless setup and scalability
PRTG's user-friendly setup process and flexible integration options make it easy to start monitoring your SAN infrastructure right away, with minimal disruption to your existing workflows. And, as your data storage needs grow, PRTG scales with you.
High network and data security
The use of RAID technology makes storage area networks especially secure. Make it even more secure by continuously monitoring your SANs with PRTG, and comprehensively protect your stored data against hardware errors or data loss.
Your SAN monitor at a glance – even on the go
Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.
Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG storage area network monitoring software
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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”
How SAN monitoring with PRTG works
PRTG comes with preconfigured sensor templates for SAN monitoring that you can use with the products of a wide variety of manufacturers, including Dell PowerVault, Dell EqualLogic, IBM, HPE, and NetApp. Our manufacturer-independent SAN sensors use SSH to query data. A command line interface must be present in the SAN to be able to monitor your storage area networks with SSH.
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ScriptRunner
With ScriptRunner, Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.
“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 makes SAN storage monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent SAN performance issues.
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
More than just a monitoring tool:
Reasons our customers love PRTG
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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.
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Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
Start SAN monitoring 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 25.1.102.1373 (January 9th, 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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