Paessler PRTG

Home network monitoring with PRTG

Keep track of your network setup at home – for free

 

  • Comprehensive network monitoring for your entire IT infrastructure at home
  • Customizable alerts and notifications via SMS, email, or in-app push notification
  • Freeware edition with up to 100 sensors free for life, all features included
 

Our users give top ratings for monitoring with Paessler PRTG

                                                           

 

PRTG makes home network monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify downtime and prevent real outages.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Keep a constant eye on your home network with PRTG monitoring

Freeware version

Paessler PRTG is the perfect tool for monitoring home networks. For basic monitoring needs, we offer a free version that includes 100 monitoring sensors free for life.

What’s more: you don’t need to compromise regarding modules or features. With PRTG, all alerting, reporting, and network mapping functionality is included.

Wide compatibility

With many preconfigured sensor types, our PRTG home network monitor is a comprehensive network monitoring software that lets you monitor your entire network. PRTG supports ping, SNMP, WMI, NetFlow for Cisco devices, SSH for Linux server monitoring, packet sniffing for network traffic analysis and bandwidth monitoring, and more.

Comprehensive use

You can use the free network monitoring tool to check network activity, and to monitor network devices such as servers, routers, switches, firewalls, or single computers. Check Windows servers or Linux operating systems, monitor SQL databases and virtual environments, track Microsoft 365 apps, and ensure network security by detecting anomalies in real time.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What home network monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the status of your hardware, applications, and services in your home infrastructure. Show uptime, CPU usage, hard disk space, battery status, 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 bandwidth bottlenecks and hardware health issues.

 

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


 

 

IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring

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“All-around winning
network monitor”

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“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

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“PRTG Network Monitor
is very hard to beat”

 

 

 

 

PRTG comes in different flavors

PRTG Network Monitor

Our classic PRTG Network Monitor is ideal for small and medium-sized infrastructures with smaller or less complex networks, as well as home networks. You can test it for free for 30 days with an unlimited number of sensors. Afterwards, it reverts to the Freeware Edition with 100 sensors.

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PRTG Hosted Monitor

In search of a provider to host your monitoring? If so, then PRTG Hosted Monitor is the solution for you. Take advantage of the full range of PRTG features via cloud. You can test it for free for 10 days. However, PRTG Hosted Monitor does not include a fully free version.

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Your home network monitor at a glance – even on the go

Set up PRTG in minutes and use it on almost any mobile device.

 

PRTG comes with all the features you need, plus more your IT infrastructure won't want to live without.

 

 

PRTG monitors these vendors and applications in one view!

 

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG home network 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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Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for home network monitoring

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!

 
 

Ping v2

SNMP CPU Load

SNMP Memory

WMI Battery

WMI Disk Health

HTTP v2

SSL Certificate

Port v2

 

Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s partners

Partnering with innovative vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.

Martello

By integrating PRTG with Martello iQ, you can add a fast analytics layer to improve uptime, visualize your IT environment, and integrate all of your IT systems into a single pane of glass.

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Plixer

Paessler and Plixer provide a complete solution adding flow and metadata analysis to a powerful network monitoring tool.

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Siemon

Siemon and Paessler bring together intelligent building technology and advanced monitoring and make your vision of intelligent buildings and data centers become reality.

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“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

Read the entire review at Gartner Peer Insights 

 

PRTG makes home network monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify downtime and prevent real outages.

 

Monitoring home networks: FAQ

 

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PRTG the multi-tool

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

 

We asked: would you recommend PRTG?
Over 95% of our customers say yes!

 

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.

 

Recommend PRTG

 

Still not convinced?

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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.

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Monitor your entire IT infrastructure

Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.

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Try Paessler PRTG
for free

Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.

 

 

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

 

 

PRTG

Network Monitoring Software - Version 25.1.102.1373 (January 9th, 2025)

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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