Enterprise Network Monitoring with PRTG

Simplify your complex IT infrastructure

Centralized monitoring software for complex IT infrastructures
User-friendly dashboards with multi-server overviews
Custom alerting and notifications in real time

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PRTG enterprise network monitoring: What you will find on this page

5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your enterprise infrastructure monitoring tool
What enterprise monitoring looks like in PRTG
Why is PRTG all-in-one monitoring better than individual tools?
Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for enterprise network monitoring
Enterprise Network Monitoring: FAQ

PRTG makes enterprise network performance monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent enterprise network issues.

5 reasons why to choose PRTG as your enterprise infrastructure monitoring tool

Comprehensive monitoring

Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor is not only enterprise monitoring software – it’s a tool for monitoring your entire IT infrastructure, on-premises or in the cloud. Monitor hardware, applications, databases, cloud services, network traffic, bandwidth, and much more.

Our enterprise monitoring system supports all standard monitoring technologies for full integration and comes with a customizable reporting and notification system out of the box.

Real-time dashboard

Big organizations are faced with complex IT infrastructures. They often require a variety of different enterprise monitoring tools that put a great strain on their system.

PRTG Enterprise Monitor does away with the need for multiple network monitoring tools and keeps an eye on all distributed networks on a single pane of glass. All monitoring data is sent to one centralized dashboard and displayed in real time.

Easy to set up and use

Our enterprise monitoring software is quick to set up and easy to use. Install PRTG Enterprise Monitor in minutes and let the automatic network discovery do the first setup for you – including adding preconfigured sensors for all the biggest manufacturers.

Plus, you’ll get expert technical support or can have a look in our Knowledge Base with easy step-by-step instructions for almost every monitoring situation.

Enhanced scalability

PRTG Enterprise Monitor offers flexible subscriptions based on the number of sensors required for your network. In general, you’ll need around 10 sensors for each device. The number of sensors can be adjusted annually and as flexibly as your infrastructure requires.

With our transparent pricing, you know what you're going to pay – and if you do cross the maximum number of sensors, you pay the yearly average of what you have been using above your sensor limit.

Offline monitoring

If your organization does not allow your critical systems to be connected to the Internet, you can use PRTG Enterprise Monitor to keep an eye on your offline environment – including the offline activation of your license(s).

You can even choose from different licensing scenarios to use it online, offline, or both.

What enterprise monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking your servers, routers, firewalls, applications, cloud services, virtual environments, and more. Show availability, response times, uptime, latency, bandwidth bottlenecks, packet loss, and other performance metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in network maps and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the visibility you need to troubleshoot downtime, outages, and all kinds of performance issues with your enterprise IT operations.

Start monitoring and troubleshooting your enterprise network with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

IT experts agree: Paessler PRTG is a great solution for IT infrastructure monitoring

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Why is PRTG all-in-one monitoring better than individual tools?

Drawbacks of individual monitoring tools

Many companies with large, complex IT environments use a combination of individual tools to monitor hardware like routers, servers, and switches as well as applications, cloud solutions, traffic, and network performance.

The drawbacks:

Many tools only work with certain manufacturers
Frustrating learning curve for monitoring teams
Errors and malfunctions often detected too late
Problems resolved only with the help of an individual tool

Advantages of PRTG all-in-one network monitoring software

Other companies simplify by using Enterprise Network Availability Monitoring Systems (ENAMSs), or enterprise network monitoring software like PRTG Enterprise Monitor. These are comprehensive, centralized network monitoring tools.

The advantages:

All your monitoring data is displayed on one main dashboard
Compatible with all the biggest manufacturers, including Cisco, HPE, Dell, and more
Get immediately notified of errors to prevent network malfunctions
Save time by consolidating numerous tools into one centralized platform

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for enterprise network monitoring

PRTG comes with more than 250 native sensor types for monitoring your entire on-premises, cloud, and hybrid cloud environment out of the box. Check out some examples below!

Business Process

The Business Process sensor gives you a summarized status of entire business processes while monitoring several process components. This means that you can create a customized sensor with channels based on data from other source sensors. It can show the following:

Summarized status of the objects contained in each channel according to the individually defined error and warning thresholds
Overall and summarized status of all channels in the Global State channel

Sensor Factory

The Sensor Factory sensor monitors entire business processes that involve several components. You can create a customized sensor with channels based on data from other sensors. It can show the following:

Downtime
Various monitoring results from other sensors or devices

Ping v2

The Ping v2 sensor sends an Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo request ("ping") from the probe system to the parent device to monitor its availability. It can show the following:

• Response time

• Packet loss

• Target status

• Minimum and maximum ping time

NetFlow v9

The NetFlow v9 sensor receives traffic data from a NetFlow v9-compatible device and shows the traffic by type. This sensor has several filter options to divide traffic into different channels. It can show the following and more:

Traffic from Citrix applications
Traffic from file transfer (FTP/P2P) and various other protocols (UDP, TCP)
Traffic from network services (DHCP, DNS, Ident, ICMP, SNMP)
Internet mail traffic (IMAP, POP3, SMTP)
Traffic from remote control applications (RDP, SSH, Telnet, Virtual Network Computing (VNC))

See the PRTG Manual for a list of all available sensor types.

PRTG is compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

PRTG makes enterprise IT monitoring as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent enterprise network issues.

”Adopting PRTG has been like going from being in the dark to being in the light. Before, we had limited visibility into what was happening in the infrastructure and in the network. Now, however, thanks to the comprehensive dashboard and real-time notifications, we receive constant updates on the status of facilities and services, and our way of working has gone from passive to proactive.”

Luca Meneghesso, Senior IT infrastructure and Security Specialist

Banca Profilo

”GESAC increasingly focuses on innovation to improve the quality of services offered and the experience of passengers handled every day by Naples Airport. Thanks to PRTG, we finally have unified, automatic, and continuous monitoring of the airport network and can guarantee quick and timely interventions.”

Domenico Ciervo, GESAC ICT Manager

Naples International Airport

”As an international company, PRTG is ideal for us. If something went down half way across the world, we wouldn’t be woken up – we can rely on PRTG to identify the problem and alert us before it occurs – enabling the right person, in the right time zone to resolve the problem. At the end of the day, if we’re to provide an internal network experience for our employees that meets expectations, we need a tool like PRTG to be successful.”

Barry Kelly, Systems Engineer

Skyscanner

“I would recommend PRTG because it has helped us significantly improve service uptime by highlighting important alerts that would otherwise result in a system failure or service disruption if action was not taken. Thanks to PRTG, we can ensure that The Ritz London’s network and IT systems are five-star, just like the hotel.”

Richard Isted, IT Manager

The Ritz London

Your enterprise network monitor at a glance – even on the go

PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.

“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.”

Read the complete review at Gartner Peer Insights

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Enterprise Network Monitoring: FAQ

What does “enterprise network” mean?

An "enterprise network" refers to the complex and integrated network infrastructure of a large organization or corporation. It is designed to make communication, data transfer, and resource sharing across different departments and geographical locations easier. Enterprise networks encompass a variety of technologies, protocols, and devices to ensure efficient and secure connectivity within the enterprise.

What is enterprise network monitoring?

Enterprise network monitoring refers to the process of continuously observing and analyzing the various components and performance metrics of an organization's large network infrastructure. The goal is to ensure the network's optimal performance, security, and reliability. This involves using specialized software and enterprise network monitoring tools such as PRTG to track the health, status, and activity of network devices, applications, and services.

How does PRTG monitor enterprise networks?

Paessler PRTG is a comprehensive network monitoring tool used by enterprises to ensure the optimal performance and security of their network infrastructure. Here’s how PRTG monitors enterprise networks:

Sensor-based monitoring: PRTG uses a variety of sensors to monitor different aspects of the network. A sensor is the basic monitoring element, and PRTG offers over 250 different types of sensors to monitor various metrics such as bandwidth, CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, and more.
Real-time data collection: PRTG continuously collects data from network devices and systems in real-time. It gathers information using standard protocols like SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, packet sniffing, HTTP, SSH, and more.
Alerting and notifications: PRTG provides customizable alerts and notifications. Administrators can set threshold values for various metrics, and PRTG will notify them via email, SMS, push notifications, or other methods when these thresholds are breached.
Dashboards and visualization: PRTG offers customizable dashboards that provide a visual representation of the network’s status and performance. These dashboards can display real-time data and historical trends using graphs, maps, and tables.
Reporting: PRTG generates detailed reports on network performance, usage, and incidents. These reports can be scheduled or generated on-demand, providing valuable insights for network management and planning.
Distributed monitoring: For large enterprises with multiple locations, PRTG offers remote probes. These probes can be deployed at different sites to monitor local networks and report back to a central PRTG server, providing a comprehensive view of the entire network.

Does PRTG offer flexible scaling?

Yes, of course. PRTG can scale to monitor large enterprise networks with thousands of sensors, making it suitable for organizations of all sizes.

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.

We asked: would you recommend PRTG? Over 95% of our customers say yes!

Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.

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Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.

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