Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent infrastructure issues.
Running distributed data centers without effective monitoring creates blind spots in your IT infrastructure. When monitoring remote sites, you need complete visibility into network performance, server status, and system health. Paessler PRTG combines monitoring and data center management capabilities in one solution, helping you prevent downtime before it impacts operations.
Your data center operations need reliable monitoring and management capabilities. PRTG delivers comprehensive monitoring through verified protocols and customizable automation features.
Monitor routers, switches, gateways, and IoT devices using SNMP, WMI, and NetFlow protocols to maintain complete network visibility. By tracking bandwidth usage, you can identify bottlenecks and optimize network performance before issues arise. The real-time data helps you quickly pinpoint affected components whenever traffic patterns change, while flexible access through the PRTG web interface or mobile apps keeps you informed wherever you are.
Monitor performance data from Microsoft servers and virtual systems across your distributed infrastructure to maintain complete oversight. By continuously tracking CPU load, memory usage, and storage capacity, you can optimize resource allocation and prevent downtime before it impacts operations. When response time monitoring identifies slow applications, you'll have all the data needed to support effective data center operations and make informed capacity planning decisions.
Keep your data center environment running smoothly by setting up customized notifications based on specific thresholds. When issues arise, PRTG delivers alerts through your choice of channels - email, SMS, or push notifications - ensuring you're always informed. Intelligent notification chains automatically alert the right teams, while customizable conditions help minimize false alarms without missing critical alerts that require immediate attention.
Visualize your entire infrastructure through custom maps that clearly show all connections between onsite and remote data center components. Network Auto-Discovery automatically finds and adds new devices to your infrastructure map, keeping it always up to date. From your central dashboard, you'll monitor all data center operations at a glance while understanding the dependencies between components - giving you complete visibility of your entire monitoring setup.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking server performance. Show bandwidth usage 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 remote infrastructure issues.
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
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Modern data centers span multiple locations, making consistent monitoring tools essential for maintaining control. That's why PRTG consolidates data from all your onsite and remote locations into one central interface, working directly alongside your existing management software to provide truly full oversight.
Keep an eye on all your distributed locations through remote probes that establish secure connections to the PRTG core server. These probes continuously collect real-time data from your data center environment, including environmental conditions from supported sensors, while SSL/TLS encryption ensures all data transmissions remain protected. As your infrastructure grows, simply deploy as many additional remote probes as you want (without any extra cost) to expand your monitoring coverage.
Create detailed dashboards that display all your critical data center operations metrics in one view. By analyzing these performance patterns, you can optimize resource usage while spotting trends before they become issues. Historical data provides deep insights into your network components' behavior over time, helping you generate detailed reports that support both capacity planning and documentation requirements.
Secure your distributed infrastructure with role-based access control while maintaining efficiency through Active Directory integration. Every monitoring activity is automatically tracked in detailed audit logs, giving you complete oversight of system usage. By integrating effortlessly with your existing authentication systems and service providers, PRTG ensures streamlined access control without compromising security.
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!
The Windows CPU Load sensor monitors the CPU load on a system via Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:
The SNMP NetApp Network Interface sensor monitors a network card of a NetApp storage system. It can show the following:
The NetFlow v9 sensor receives traffic data from a NetFlow v9-compatible device and shows the traffic by type. This sensor has several filter options to divide traffic into different channels. It can show the following and more:
The Probe Health sensor monitors the status of the probe system. It can show the following and more:
The QoS (Quality of Service) Round Trip sensor monitors parameters regarding the quality of a network connection between two probes. It can show the following:
See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent infrastructure issues.
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Remote data center monitoring gives you complete visibility into your infrastructure performance across all distributed locations through specialized monitoring tools. By providing real-time data about network performance, server status, and connectivity, you'll always know the exact state of your infrastructure. This proactive monitoring approach not only helps maintain consistent uptime but also allows you to identify and address potential issues before they develop into costly downtime situations.
When data centers experience downtime, the resulting disruptions can lead to significant costs and lost productivity. That's why effective monitoring software is crucial - it helps you detect and resolve issues quickly, often catching problems before they can impact your operations. Through continuous data collection across both onsite and remote locations, you can optimize resources and prevent capacity problems, ensuring your infrastructure stays reliable and efficient.
PRTG uses remote probes to collect real-time data from your distributed infrastructure. Deploy these probes at different locations to monitor servers, network devices, and applications. The PRTG core server combines data from all probes in a central dashboard for complete visibility of your data center operations.
PRTG monitors essential infrastructure metrics:
• Network performance and connectivity status
• Microsoft server health and resource usage
• Response times and threshold values
• Traffic analysis through SNMP and TCP
• System availability and uptime metrics
• Physical security elements through supported sensors
While PRTG focuses on comprehensive IT monitoring and data center management, it works alongside dedicated environmental monitoring systems. For specialized monitoring needs like water leak detection, airflow measurement, or cooling systems monitoring, we recommend using dedicated systems while PRTG handles the core IT infrastructure monitoring.
PRTG provides multiple integration options:
• REST API for custom integrations
• Email alerts for infrastructure issues
• SMS messages about status changes
• Push notifications to mobile apps
• HTTP requests
• Execute custom scripts
• Syslog and SNMP traps
PRTG offers flexible licensing based on the number of sensors you need for your data center monitoring system. Visit our website for current pricing options and to start your free trial. Each license includes all available sensor types and features.
PRTG can monitor basic environmental factors through SNMP-capable devices and specific hardware sensors. While PRTG excels at IT infrastructure monitoring, for specialized environmental monitoring in your data center environment (like cooling systems, airflow, or water leak detection), we recommend using dedicated environmental monitoring systems alongside PRTG. PRTG monitors:
• Power supply status (through supported hardware sensors)
• Temperature data (via SNMP-capable sensors)
• System health metrics
• Power distribution units that support standard protocols
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.
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.
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.
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