Server performance monitoring with PRTG

PRTG is a proprietary network monitoring system that takes the effort out of ensuring your servers always perform at their best. With more than 250 preconfigured sensors, our server monitoring software gives you a complete and comprehensive overview of every component that might impact your servers at a glance, so you can answer this question (and address the problem) double quick.

Available for Windows-based on-premises servers or as a cloud-hosted SaaS solution, it's capable of monitoring unlimited devices, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go.

Not exactly. PRTG is a monitoring tool and no server performance test software. This means it's primarily designed to track performance metrics and alert you when they dip below pre-established thresholds, not to run tests.

That said, you can simulate performance tests in the following way:

• Write a script and integrate it into PRTG with a user-defined sensor
• Run the script at short intervals
• Measure the corresponding hardware parameters on your server

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.