Workstation monitoring with PRTG

PRTG is a proprietary software tool that tracks the health and performance of servers, physical and logical drives, virtualized environments, employee computers, and other devices connected to your network. Available for on-premises servers or as a cloud-based solution, it can monitor unlimited local devices, virtual environments, and remote desktops, bringing critical system data together in one simple, intuitive interface you can access from anywhere: at the office, at home, or on the go.

PRTG’s functionality extends to preconfigured Linux-specific sensors you can use for monitoring user activity, device status, availability, and other performance metrics on workstations that run on Linux. You'll still need to install a PRTG core server on Windows. But, once that's done, you can use our new multi-platform probe that also runs on Linux/Unix and macOS systems. Alternatively, if your network runs exclusively on Linux, try our fully Linux-compatible hosted solution.

Yes. PRTG monitors remote desktops, workstations, and employee computers using a system of remote probes that are in constant communication with a central hub – your PRTG core server. Install the probes close to the endpoints of the remote desktops, workstations, or employee computers you want to monitor. The probes gather data on the metrics you’re tracking and report back to the core server, which organizes the data into dashboards you can look at to check the health of your organization's entire network at a glance and create detailed reports from.

No, Paessler PRTG is not an employee monitoring software. While many organizations may look for solutions to track employee productivity and remote workers, monitor employee performance, or use tracking software during work from home, PRTG focuses exclusively on network monitoring.

It provides IT teams with tools to ensure your organization's network remains secure and performs at its best, regardless of whether employees are working from the office or remotely. PRTG does not measure metrics like idle time, keystrokes, or engage in any form of productivity monitoring or productivity tracking. Instead, it’s built to monitor servers, devices, and network traffic, not your employees. Our priority is the health of your network, not the minutiae of your employees' workday activities.

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.