VPN monitoring with PRTG for secure data traffic
- Monitor VPN connections and your entire local network
- Measure traffic, load, the number of VPN users & more
- Identify connection problems and suspicious traffic
- Increase network security and stability
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PRTG VPN monitoring:
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PRTG makes VPN performance monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent VPN connection and security issues.
5 reasons to choose PRTG as your VPN monitoring tool
Secure company network access
Meet the requirements for network security and connection stability with the encrypted transportation of sensitive company data. Unusual or even suspicious traffic will immediately raise a red flag. With Paessler PRTG, your VPN networks will boast an optimal system status, as well as application security and secure connectivity
Intelligent alarms and notifications
Customize PRTG alarms with your own threshold values to record connection problems and irregularities in the network. It’s easy to counter attacks since you’ll be informed immediately by SMS, email, push notification, and more in the event of errors, numerous failed connection attempts, VPN problems, suspicious traffic, or overloads.
Proactive troubleshooting
Get to the root of any problem with continuous monitoring that minimizes the risk of security loopholes. PRTG helps you do proactive troubleshooting that reduces blocks in the flow of data traffic between VPN partners and the company network. This way, you will always have peace of mind, both in and out of the office.
Central dashboard overview
The PRTG dashboard offers easy-to-read details on all parameters of your VPN connections in real time. PRTG gathers information regarding the VPN connection, such as who used a VPN to connect (or is presently connected) to the company network and at what time, the type of connection, and the volume of data that is transferred over a certain period.
Efficient long-term planning
PRTG’s quick and comprehensive overview of your virtual private network provides you with valuable insight on traffic, connections, and users. All this information will help you create transparency of utilized resources, which means you get decision-making support for service management and upgrades for your IT equipment.
What VPN monitoring looks like in PRTG
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your virtual private network. Show incoming and outgoing traffic by IP address, bandwidth, data packet speed, packet loss, latency, the number of active VPN sessions and remote workers, and other key network 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 VPN connection errors, suspicious user activity, bad routing, and other performance issues.
Device tree view of your complete monitoring setup
SNMP SonicWall VPN Traffic sensor in PRTG
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire network domain
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Preconfigured VPN monitoring sensors included with PRTG
PRTG uses SNMP for monitoring VPNs. SNMP is the easiest way to monitor a network, as network and CPU loads are kept to a minimum.
SNMP Cisco ASA VPN Traffic
The SNMP Cisco ASA VPN Traffic sensor monitors the traffic of an IPsec VPN connection on a Cisco ASA. It shows:
- Incoming and outgoing traffic
- Total traffic
SNMP SonicWall VPN Traffic
The SNMP SonicWall VPN Traffic sensor monitors the traffic of an IPsec VPN on a SonicWall NSA. It shows:
- Number of encrypted and decrypted packets
- Bytes of encrypted and decrypted transmissions
- Number of incoming and outgoing fragmented packets
SNMP Library
The SNMP Library sensor uses a MIB file to create sensors that monitor a device via SNMP and provides custom monitoring beyond the standard SNMP sensors of PRTG.
Use this sensor, for example, to monitor the firewalls and security appliances of manufacturers such as Juniper and Fortinet in the corresponding VPNs.
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PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems
PRTG makes VPN server & network monitoring easy
Custom alerts and data visualization make it easy to monitor, identify, and prevent VPN connection and security issues.
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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
Easily find the source of the problem with our PRTG virtual private network monitoring solution
Real-time alerts and custom notifications make it easy to solve issues with VPN connections and suspicious network traffic.
Monitor VPN: FAQ
What is a VPN?
VPN stands for “virtual private network”. It is a method by which two endpoints create a single, private connection, or VPN tunnel, while using a larger network infrastructure such as the Internet or a WAN. When established, a VPN acts like a direct connection to a private network.
What are the benefits of a VPN?
With VPNs, employees who do not work within the company network (such as those working remote) are able to securely access company applications and collective resources. Branch offices can also connect, and mobile workers are able to effectively work with clients.
With the encrypted transportation of sensitive company data come strict requirements regarding security and connection stability. To meet these requirements, PRTG offers VPN network monitoring.
How does VPN monitoring work?
To make a VPN partner’s connection to a company network secure, VPNs use remote access secured via SSL/TLS with the Internet as a path. This path ends at a VPN gateway, or the dial-in node of the company network. Beyond this point, the VPN partner acts as a regular network client, accessing applications and data and using collaborative tools like all other clients.
Along with VPNs for connecting branches to the network (end-to-site VPN), there are also VPNs for connecting two networks (site-to-site VPN) and for the direct connection between VPN partners (end-to-end VPN). VPN monitoring tools like PRTG check virtual networks for availability, VPN connection types, load, and errors, as well as connected user accounts and transferred data volumes and packets.
What else can you monitor with PRTG?
PRTG is not only VPN monitoring software – with our all-in-one network monitoring tool, you can keep an eye on your entire IT infrastructure, including:
- Active Directory monitoring to keep an eye on user accounts, domain access, and AD replication
- Ping monitoring to check the availability of all your network devices
- QoS monitoring to check the quality of service and troubleshoot VoIP and IP SLA issues
- Web server monitoring for Apache, IIS, and others, including availability, CPU, memory, load times, and web server performance
- SSH monitoring to keep an eye on Unix-based systems and check dedicated Linux or macOS servers for availability and performance
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
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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