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IT Operations Analyzer with PRTG

Unify all your operational data in one central monitoring solution to make faster, more informed decisions

  • Reduce MTTR with accurate root-cause analysis that pinpoints the source of problems
  • Optimize IT operations with comprehensive metrics that reveal inefficiencies and bottlenecks
  • Prevent costly downtime through predictive analytics that forecast potential system failures
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PRTG IT operations analyzer: What you will find on this page

Table of content
  • Transform your IT operations with powerful analytics
  • What IT operations monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 4 reasons why PRTG is the IT operations analyzer tool of your choice
  • Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for IT operations analysis
  • IT Operation Analyzer: FAQ

PRTG makes IT operations analysis as easy as it gets

Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent operational disruptions.

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Transform your IT operations with powerful analytics

When you implement PRTG as your IT operations analyzer, you unlock the ability to see through the complexity of your infrastructure. You gain immediate insight into performance bottlenecks, potential failures, and optimization opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden beneath mountains of operational data.

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Unified dashboard

Access all your critical IT metrics from a single, customizable interface that adapts to your specific needs. Set up personalized views that highlight exactly what matters most to your operation. Create multiple dashboard variants for different stakeholders to ensure everyone sees relevant information.

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Root cause

Identify the exact source of problems without wasting hours on manual troubleshooting and investigation. Trace issues across your infrastructure with automated correlation between related events and metrics. Reduce your mean time to resolution dramatically by pinpointing failures at their origin.

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Real-time alerts

Receive instant notifications when metrics deviate from established baselines or cross predefined thresholds. Configure multi-level escalation paths to ensure the right people are notified at the right time. Customize alert delivery through various channels including email, SMS, and push notifications.

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Predictive analysis

Detect potential issues before they impact your business operations or end-user experience. Leverage machine learning algorithms that learn what "normal" looks like for your environment. Prevent costly downtime by addressing problems in their earliest stages of development.

What IT operations monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking device performance, service availability and application behavior. Show resource consumption, error rates and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot performance degradation and prevent service disruptions.

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Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup

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Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure

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Live traffic data graph in PRTG

Start IT operation analysis with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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

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“The real beauty of PRTG is the endless possibilities it offers”

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“PRTG Network Monitor 
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4 reasons why PRTG is the IT operations analyzer tool of your choice

Managing complex IT environments can feel like trying to solve a puzzle with missing pieces. When critical applications slow down or crash, you're left scrambling to connect the dots between different systems, while users grow increasingly frustrated and business operations grind to a halt. Without the right analysis tools, these fire drills become your daily routine.

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Flexible subscription

Choose the licensing model that perfectly fits your organization's size and monitoring needs. Scale up or down as your infrastructure evolves without being locked into rigid contracts. Avoid large upfront investments with our straightforward subscription options that make budgeting predictable.

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Expert support

Access our knowledgeable support team whenever you encounter challenges or have questions about optimizing your monitoring setup. Benefit from extensive documentation, active community forums, and personalized assistance from PRTG specialists. Resolve issues quickly with support professionals who understand the complexities of modern IT operations.

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Minimal training

Deploy and configure your monitoring environment without specialized expertise or lengthy training sessions. Navigate the intuitive interface that makes complex monitoring tasks accessible to IT professionals at all skill levels. Achieve rapid time-to-value with auto-discovery features that automatically identify and suggest appropriate sensors for your devices.

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Seamless integration

Connect PRTG with your existing tools and workflows through our comprehensive API and pre-built integrations. Incorporate monitoring data into your ticketing systems, collaboration platforms, and automation tools without complex coding. Extend the value of your current IT investments while adding powerful analytics capabilities.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for IT operations analysis

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!

System Health v2

  • The System Health v2 sensor monitors the health of a Linux system that the PRTG core server runs on. It can show the following:
  • Available memory
  • CPU load
System Health v2
System Health v2

SNMP Traffic v2

The SNMP Traffic v2 sensor monitors bandwidth and traffic on a device. It can show the following:

  • Number of incoming and outgoing broadcast, multicast, unicast, and non-unicast packets
  • Number of incoming and outgoing discards and errors
  • Total, incoming, and outgoing traffic
  • Number of incoming, unknown protocols
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SNMP Traffic v2

HTTP Full Web Page

The HTTP Full Web Page sensor monitors the full download time of a web page including assets such as images. In the background, it opens the web page in a browser instance to perform the measurement. It can show the following:

  • Downtime
  • Loading time of the full web page
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HTTP Full Web Page

WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2019

The WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2019 sensor monitors the performance of a Microsoft SQL Server. It can show the following and more:

  • Buffer cache hit ratio
  • Average amount of wait time for each lock request that resulted in a wait
  • Number of Transact-SQL command batches, database pages, deadlocks, full scans, lock requests, logins and logouts, page splits, SQL compilations and recompilations, user connections, stolen pages, and table lock escalations
  • Total amount of connection memory, optimizer memory, SQL cache memory, target server memory, and total server memory
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WMI Microsoft SQL Server 2019

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
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Business Process

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

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

compatible with all major vendors, products, and systems

PRTG makes real-time IT operations monitoring as easy as it gets

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

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”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 IT operations analyzer 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.

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We are a VMware Technology Alliance Partner

Paessler achieved VMware's highest level of endorsement due to our technological excellence, leading market position, and superior compatibility with VMware products.

What does this mean for you?

  • Easy integration of VMware components with PRTG
  • State-of-the-art features for monitoring your virtual environment
  • Expert technical support around your VMware monitoring setup

Create innovative solutions with Paessler’s IT partners

Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.

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baramundi

baramundi and PRTG create a secure, reliable and powerful IT infrastructure where you have everything under control - from the traffic in your firewall to the configuration of your clients.

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UVnetworks

UVexplorer integrates tightly with PRTG to bring fast and accurate network discovery, detailed device inventory, and automatic network mapping to the PRTG platform.

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Rittal

IT that works constitutes a business-critical basis for a company's success. Availability and security must be defined for the respective purpose and closely monitored – by OT and IT alike.

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG IT operations analyzer solution

Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.

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IT Operations Analyzer: FAQ

 

What is an IT operations analyzer tool?

An IT operations analyzer (ITOA) tool collects, processes, and analyzes operational data from your IT infrastructure to provide actionable insights. These tools help you to monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and predict potential issues before they cause outages. Modern ITOA solutions leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning to correlate events across complex IT environments, enabling faster root cause analysis and improved decision-making for IT operations management.

How does PRTG help with IT operations analysis?

PRTG functions as a comprehensive IT operations analyzer by monitoring your entire IT infrastructure from a single platform. The solution tracks performance metrics across servers, networks, applications, and cloud services to provide complete observability. PRTG helps you streamline troubleshooting processes by automatically correlating events and identifying the root cause of issues. With customizable dashboards and real-time alerts, PRTG enables proactive management of IT systems, improving operational efficiency and reducing mean time to resolution for incidents.

Can PRTG monitor multi-cloud environments?

Yes, PRTG offers robust monitoring capabilities for multi-cloud environments including AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. Our monitoring tool provides unified visibility across your entire cloud ecosystem, allowing you to track resource utilization, costs, and performance metrics from a single dashboard. This comprehensive approach to cloud monitoring helps you to optimize your cloud spending while ensuring optimal application performance across different cloud providers and services.

How does PRTG integrate with AIOps and incident management workflows?

PRTG complements AIOps initiatives by providing the foundational monitoring data needed for advanced analytics. Our platform integrates with popular incident management tools through its robust API, allowing for automated ticket creation when issues are detected. PRTG can feed operational data into AIOps platforms from vendors like IBM and Hitachi, enabling pattern recognition and predictive analytics. This integration helps IT ops teams automate routine tasks, reduce alert noise, and focus on strategic initiatives that improve the overall IT service delivery.

What types of applications and services can be monitored with PRTG?

PRTG offers comprehensive monitoring for virtually all applications and services in your IT environment. From traditional on-premises apps to cloud-native services, PRTG provides detailed APM (Application Performance Monitoring) capabilities. The platform monitors web applications, databases, mail servers, ERP systems, and custom applications. PRTG tracks key performance indicators like response times, error rates, and resource utilization, giving IT teams complete visibility into application performance from both infrastructure and end-user perspectives.

How scalable is PRTG for large enterprise environments?

PRTG is highly scalable and can monitor environments ranging from small networks to large enterprise data centers with thousands of devices. The distributed monitoring architecture allows organizations to deploy remote probes across multiple locations while maintaining centralized management. This approach enables efficient monitoring of geographically dispersed IT infrastructure without compromising performance. PRTG handles big data volumes generated by complex IT environments, providing the scalability needed to support growing organizations while maintaining high uptime for monitoring operations.

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.

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Start IT operation analysis with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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