Auto-discovery finds your devices, pre-configured sensors start monitoring immediately, and you'll have visibility into your entire network before lunch. Here's how to get the most out of PRTG from day one.
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Continue to Essential Setup to configure alerts, dashboards, and optimize your monitoring ↓
Explore advanced features below for distributed monitoring, custom sensors, and optimization ↓
Monitor network traffic and bandwidth usage using SNMP, flows, or packet sniffing—depending on your needs.
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Monitor multiple sites, set up remote probes, and configure failover clustering for high availability.
Deploy remote probes to monitor distributed locations from a central PRTG installation.
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Set up a failover cluster to ensure your monitoring stays online even if the primary server goes down.
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Build custom sensors, use advanced receiver sensors, and create composite sensors for complex monitoring scenarios.
Create custom SNMP sensors, HTTP sensors, or script-based sensors to monitor anything PRTG doesn't cover by default.
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Set up sensors that receive data from external sources like syslog, SNMP traps, or packet captures.
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Combine multiple sensors into aggregated views using Sensor Factory or Business Process sensors.
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Monitor databases, virtual machines, applications, and quality of service for VoIP and video conferencing.
Optimize your setup with libraries, templates, dependencies, scheduling, and advanced reporting.
Use libraries to create custom views of your device tree, and save time with device templates.
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Reduce alert noise with dependencies, and control when sensors actively monitor using schedules.
Create custom reports, schedule automated report delivery, and analyze historical data.
