PRTG Network Monitor Freeware
Paessler AG | PRTG 24.2.96.1375Windows, Windows Server 2022 Base 1809 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Great Product at a great price
What do you like best about the product?
Product is licensed at a great price point and is easy to use. Setup is simple and product is ready to use quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
Would like to see more software probes. A deeper inspection of software would be the best
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Network infrastructure monitoring. Being able to minimize down time for our users is key.
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Perfect network and server monitor
What do you like best about the product?
I get notifications when devices go down. I can also monitor network bandwidth.
What do you dislike about the product?
Not much to dislike but wish there was some more sensors geared toward Microsoft Exchange. Also wish they offered a hybrid on-premise and cloud integration.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Able to look for network bottlenecks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Be sure to get plenty of sensors. You can never have enough sensors.
Maps are great, monitoring is jut ok.
What do you like best about the product?
If you can get past the high price you have to pay for the privilege to use PRTG, then you can create some wonderful dashboards (which PRTG calls maps) to put up in your NOC. Compared to other programs that do the same type of monitoring, it leaves much to be desired. But, PRTG does have one of the best customizable dashboard systems that I have seen, there are some limiting types of monitoring, but you can't have it all.
What do you dislike about the product?
The price. Your organization needs some deep pockets to maintain ongoing support. To get any sort of meaningful information PRTG falls into the trap of a lot of other systems, you have to spend hundreds of man hours customizing the system to your own needs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It is a monitoring tool that we use to monitor servers, network equipment, and other SNMP enabled devices.
PRTG - Fantastic Dashboarding and Monitoring Software on a Budget
What do you like best about the product?
The extensibility and massive number of systems that PRTG can monitor is fantastic. If it's not natively built in, which I've found few that are not, you can easily import MIBs or write a PowerShell script to pull the data you need.
What do you dislike about the product?
The pricing structure is out of whack. You buy in increments, not packs, and the licenses are based on nodes. You start with 500 nodes monitored, and can double it to 1000 for a fairly affordable cost. If you need 1001 though, you can't just buy another 10 or even 500, you have to upgrade to the 2500 node license at 3x the cost. No other options. This makes PRTG suitable for small installations, but it doesn't scale with a small budget.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
PRTG provides a quick and easy way to get good system monitoring and custom dashboards in place. We've used it to get some great visibility and notification of when systems go down. It's also a cost effective way to implement dashboarding, and doesn't require significant IT resources to implement, manage, or customize.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's a great product for under 1000 items monitored (doesn't take many 48-port switches to get to 1000, so it's really not that much. Over 1000 though, be prepared for sticker shock.
Your network - at a glance
What do you like best about the product?
Netflow and ping sensors are used daily. We monitor the up time of our local servers and at remote locations. A simple look at the screen will tell me if I have a problem. Netflow reports help me track down who's using excessive bandwidth.
What do you dislike about the product?
The client and server update so often. It seems like it's daily, although it probably isn't. A necessary evil, I'm sure. I'd rather have a minor inconvenience than a software package with security holes.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bandwidth usage tracking. Server uptime status. Networking utilization across our WAN
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It has an automated setup which is great. But if you're using the free version with limited probes, you'll run out quickly. Let it run auto setup, then remove the extraneous probes you don't need/want.
It has been a fantastic monitoring tool
What do you like best about the product?
Instant alert for any abnormality with your owned servers
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't have anything that I dislike about prtg
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
IT business. It has been helping out to quickly act on issues.
Decent solution, not the stellar tool I was looking for
What do you like best about the product?
Implementation is easy, and the free 100 monitors helps with try-before-buy approach.
What do you dislike about the product?
Very difficult to work with out-of-bounds products. Not intuitive to deal with devices with multiple IPs, or devices with alternating network access paths. (For example, a device that roams from point to point and acquires different IP addresses can't be identified as the same device.)
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Monitoring of small office network infrastructure.
Free Monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
100 sensors for free! Perfect for SMBs. Easily monitor critical devices and services and get email, text, and push notifications.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's not exactly intuitive but once you get the hang of it, it's easy to manage.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I'm able to quickly respond to outages before our associates notice there's trouble.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's free, give it a try!
PRTG
What do you like best about the product?
Help monitor uptime and failures on network equipment in a Campus Network environment.
What do you dislike about the product?
Hardware (processor and memory) utilization.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Ease of remote monitoring and device management.
Very Useful and Flexible monitoring
What do you like best about the product?
Variety of monitoring methods, we use Windows as well as SNMP
What do you dislike about the product?
inability to generate multiple circles in the 'donut' style chart
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping an eye on hundreds if not thousands of devices, services and equipment across multiple locations
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Great tool, but don't limit yourself to one, periodically review other offerings, some may suit your style better than others.
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