Network protocol analyzer with PRTG
Navigate and analyze your flow traffic with ease
- Gain unparalleled visibility into network traffic patterns
- Enhance your network's efficiency by using different protocols for analysis
- Detect & mitigate network intrusions with detailed analysis of packet data
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PRTG network protocol analyzer: What you’ll find on this page
PRTG makes analyzing network protocols as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent health, performance, and network security issues.
Monitor, measure, and master network complexity
In the intricate web of modern networks, having a detailed understanding of your traffic is crucial for both performance and security. Paessler PRTG stands out as a protocol analyzer by offering comprehensive visibility and control over your network traffic, ensuring your infrastructure operates seamlessly and securely while maintaining your sanity.
Deep dive into protocol analysis
PRTG goes beyond surface-level monitoring by offering deep packet inspection and flow monitoring capabilities. This advanced protocol analysis lets you peel the layers back on your network traffic in real time, providing insights into bandwidth usage, traffic sources, and potential security threats.
It takes very few clicks to get to the center of your traffic stops. With support for popular flow protocols such as NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and IPFIX, PRTG makes it easy to capture and analyze data packets across your network, ensuring no detail goes unnoticed.
Customize monitoring to fit your needs
Flexibility is key in network management, and PRTG offers unparalleled customization for protocol analysis. Tailor your monitoring setup like a new suit, with specific sensors for the protocols you use most, and adjust alert thresholds to match your network’s traffic patterns.
This customization ensures you're always the first to know about potential issues, allowing swift responses to maintain network integrity and performance.
Simplify and secure your entire network
PRTG simplifies the complex task of network protocol analysis by providing a single, unified endpoint for all your monitoring needs. Eliminate the need for multiple tools with PRTG's all-encompassing approach, reducing compatibility issues and security vulnerabilities.
Moreover, PRTG's secure architecture, including encrypted communications, ensures your network data remains safe and confidential.
Empower network traffic analysis
With PRTG, empower your network with the ability to monitor using a wide range of protocols, ensuring comprehensive coverage and deep insights.
From HTTP to SNMP, and from WMI to TCP/UDP to SSH, our packet sniffer and protocol analyzer software shines by providing detailed analytics that help you optimize performance, troubleshoot issues, and secure your network against threats.
What network protocol analysis looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking network traffic in your ethernet-based LAN or wireless network using different protocols. Show traffic data patterns, bandwidth usage, captured data packets, and other key performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot and debug issues with network packet capture, irregular traffic behavior, and bandwidth bottlenecks.
Toplist breaking down and analyzing traffic by protocol
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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG network protocol analyzer
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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Benefit from advanced protocol analysis with PRTG
Detect peak loads
Analyze the bandwidth usage of applications and directly detect changes or irregularities in network performance. With PRTG as a protocol analysis tool, load peaks are quickly and efficiently identified and fluctuations in accessing applications or websites are revealed.
Increase network stability
Thanks to PRTG’s recorded flow data, you can scale capacities much better and thus achieve greater network stability. When bandwidth usage is optimized, the productivity of business processes and applications also increases.
Create detailed reports
Generate custom reports on demand or using schedules, and export them through various channels. This also allows other people such as the management level to be conveniently informed about the status of the network.
Keep the network up to date
Comprehensive protocol analysis with PRTG ensures that you know about bandwidth capacity and network speed in detail. Get valuable long-term information about your entire IT infrastructure to keep it up to date in a more cost-efficient and systematic manner.
5 reasons to choose PRTG as your protocol analysis tool
Comprehensive traffic insights
Gain a holistic view of your network traffic, with detailed analysis of all major protocols and bandwidth metrics.
Real-time anomaly detection
Leverage flow monitoring and packet sniffing to identify and react to network anomalies in real time.
Customizable dashboards
Create tailored dashboards that highlight the most relevant protocol analytics, keeping you informed and focused.
Scalable monitoring solution
Whether you're managing a small enterprise network or a large data center, PRTG scales to meet your protocol analysis needs.
Easy to deploy, set up, and use
With an intuitive interface and easy setup, PRTG makes advanced protocol analysis accessible to network administrators of all skill levels.
Start network protocol analysis with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.
Your protocol analyzer at a glance – even on the go
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“I particularly like having breakfast at home and just surveying my domain, and understanding what's working and what isn't.”
PRTG makes analyzing network protocols as easy as it gets
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent health, performance, and network security issues.
Network protocol analysis: FAQ
What is a network protocol analyzer tool?
A protocol analyzer (also protocol analysis tool, traffic analyzer, packet analyzer, or packet analysis tool) is software that you can use to record and analyze data traffic in a network. In concrete terms, this means that the network traffic is broken down according to various parameters. The data flows are then displayed in diagrams and tables for analysis.
PRTG includes protocol analysis functionalities to track and analyze using packet sniffing, as well as different flow protocols. Network traffic is categorized by connection, IP address, and by protocol.
How is network traffic recorded with flow monitoring?
In the context of flow monitoring, the term “flow” refers to the flow of data packets between two endpoints, such as devices or applications. Recording the data flow is mostly done by exporting the flow data of a device (for example a router, firewall, or switch). In addition, a data collector is required. Its task is to log the data so that it can be analyzed later.
PRTG offers several preconfigured sensors for collecting, analyzing, and monitoring flow data.
How does PRTG use flow monitoring in protocol analysis?
PRTG incorporates flow monitoring technologies like NetFlow, sFlow, and jFlow in its protocol analysis toolkit. This allows for the in-depth examination of network traffic patterns, helping to identify the types of traffic and protocols being used, as well as pinpointing sources of high bandwidth consumption. Flow monitoring is essential for understanding how data moves through your network and for identifying potential security threats or inefficiencies.
Can PRTG analyze encrypted traffic within flow data?
Yes, while PRTG respects encryption by not decrypting content, it analyzes encrypted traffic flow data to provide insights on bandwidth usage, communication patterns, and source/destination metrics. This level of analysis is critical for managing network performance and security, even when the traffic content remains private.
How customizable is PRTG's protocol and flow analysis?
PRTG offers extensive customization options for protocol and flow analysis, including the ability to set specific sensors and filters for monitoring particular protocols or traffic types. This flexibility ensures that network administrators can focus on the traffic that matters most to their organization's security and performance goals.
How does PRTG identify network anomalies through protocol and flow analysis?
Leveraging protocol analysis and flow data, PRTG can detect anomalies by comparing current traffic patterns against historical baselines. This capability allows for the early detection of unusual activities, such as spikes in bandwidth usage or the emergence of unfamiliar protocols, which could indicate security concerns or network issues.
Can PRTG monitor both internal and external network traffic through flow analysis?
Indeed, PRTG's flow monitoring capabilities extend to both internal network traffic and external Internet-bound traffic. This ensures comprehensive visibility into all data flows, enabling effective management and security oversight across the entire network infrastructure.
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
More than just a monitoring tool:
Reasons our customers love PRTG
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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