Data usage monitoring with PRTG
Solve network activity peaks before they disrupt your business flow
- Get real-time insights into all of your network’s data traffic
- Easily visualize data use and consumption with custom dashboards
- Identify bottlenecks and network usage issues proactively
Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG
PRTG data usage monitoring: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes data usage monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks and network overloads.
Experience the reality of real end-to-end network usage visibility with PRTG
Network infrastructures can range from simple with a few routers and an expansive data plan to extremely complex with hybrid networks, WANs, and multiple data centers. Best practice data management demands end-to-end network visibility and monitoring tools that provide in-depth traffic analysis. Paessler PRTG’s data usage monitoring crosses off those boxes and writes in a few more.
Stop fighting with Wi-Fi data usage
In many networks, Wi-Fi is often the main method for connecting devices to the internet and local network, including mobile phones, workstations, laptops, and IoT devices.
PRTG can track and analyze the amount of data being transmitted over the Wi-Fi network. Identify congestion points, unauthorized internet usage, performance issues, and more. If your organization’s internet connection is more Wi-Fi than not, PRTG has you covered.
Detect & manage background data usage
Networks have their own version of vampire devices, quietly sucking up needed bandwidth. These background processes can silently degrade network performance when the bandwidth is needed by VoIP calls, file transfers, or cloud services.
PRTG’s real-time bandwidth monitoring is the silver bullet, helping you identify bandwidth hogs, control network traffic, prioritize critical applications, and optimize bandwidth allocation.
Build capacity planning into processes
Accurate capacity planning is crucial for making sure your network can handle current and future demands. PRTG’s data usage monitoring tracks usage growth trends over time, enabling you to accurately forecast when your current infrastructure will no longer be enough.
In turn, you can plan for those hard data caps, cloud service data limits, and mobile data usage limits, allowing you to stay away from punishing overage fees and service disruptions.
Monitor bandwidth on home networks
The hybrid business is here, with a growing number of remote workers who rely heavily on their home networks and VPNs for secure, steady connections. PRTG can help identify what’s consuming the most data, set polices or bandwidth usage limits to prioritize work-related traffic, and detect security risks.
You can also track total data usage overtime to understand if the worker’s home internet service provider (ISP) is up to the task or needs to be upgraded.
What data usage monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking data usage across your entire IT infrastructure. Show the performance of your network devices, apps, and operating systems, bandwidth utilization, network traffic by IP address and protocol, 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 data consumption issues and network congestion.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Live traffic graph in PRTG
Start monitoring data usage with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
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5 reasons to use PRTG as your data usage monitoring tool
We’re really good at network monitoring
With PRTG, you get more than data usage monitoring, you get comprehensive monitoring of your entire network, from server rooms to hardware to applications and processes.
If you’re tired of that frustrated feeling from not having enough network visibility, PRTG is for you. Have everything you need to know about your network and devices (including data usage) at the tip of your fingers. Literally.
Network security is a top priority for us
Your data is one of your most valuable assets. PRTG helps you protect that asset with traffic flow and firewall monitoring. PRTG collects and monitors events like blocked traffic, intrusion attempts, or unusual access patterns, helping network admins detect potential security threats.
It also tracks traffic flowing through the firewall and the health of the firewall itself, including configuration changes and VPN traffic.
We’re really easy to use. No, really.
We’re not “Easy Button” easy, but close. PRTG is well-known for how easy it is to set up and implement. It offers an intuitive, user-friendly interface that make setup and management of data usage sensors a breeze.
While some clients have needed to customize our preconfigured sensors, most companies can get set up within hours, not days. You’d have time to set up PRTG, push the “go” button, and be home by dinner.
Get custom alerts and notifications
Real-time monitoring and real-time alerts go hand-in-hand, and we’ve baked both into PRTG. Set your own data usage thresholds and define who receives notifications at each escalation level.
This flexibility and customization reduces notification fatigue and ensures a faster, more prepared response, leading to a quicker resolution of potential issues.
We’ll reduce compatibility stress
PRTG is highly flexible and designed to be compatible with as many systems, devices, protocols, and infrastructures as possible. It plays well with others and acts as a peace keeper between traditional product foes, such as Microsoft Windows and macOS.
PRTG can seamlessly monitor your Cisco, HPE, and Dell routers, as well as multiple vendor switches, servers, and firewalls. If it connects to your infrastructure, PRTG is probably compatible.
Your network data monitor at a glance – even on the go
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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG data usage 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
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PRTG makes data usage monitoring as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent bandwidth bottlenecks and network overloads.
Monitoring data usage: FAQ
What is data usage monitoring?
Data usage monitoring tools track and monitor the amount of data transmitted across your network. This monitoring includes bandwidth usage, traffic spikes, peak usage times, and the flow of data between devices, servers, applications, and cloud services.
Why is data usage monitoring important?
Data usage monitoring is important to make network management more manageable. PRTG monitoring helps IT teams maintain strong network performance, control costs from outages, data limits and caps, and poor capacity planning. Data usage monitoring allows you to get a grip on your data for proactive, rather than reactive, network management.
What protocols does PRTG use for monitoring data usage?
PRTG is designed to be flexible, and supports key industry-standard protocols. For example, PRTG uses SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) sensors, as well as WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation), NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and Packet Sniffing sensors. These protocols are commonly used by network devices for monitoring and management, making PRTG highly adaptable and capable of working in almost any network environment without needing complex configurations or compatibility fixes.
What kind of reports can PRTG generate for data usage?
PRTG offers customizable reports that can show bandwidth usage trends, top talkers, and specific device data consumption for defined periods. Customize the level of data provided based on stakeholder needs, so only the ones who need to know get the full data download.
Can PRTG monitor cloud usage data?
PRTG offers customizable reports that can show bandwidth usage trends, top talkers, and specific device data consumption for defined periods. Customize the level of data provided based on stakeholder needs, so only the ones who need to know get the full data download.
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
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
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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