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VDI Monitoring with PRTG

Detect virtual desktop performance issues before they impact end-user experience

  • Monitor all VDI components from a single dashboard for complete infrastructure visibility
  • Identify resource bottlenecks across host servers, virtual machines, and storage systems
  • Optimize capacity planning with comprehensive historical data and trend analysis
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PRTG VDI monitoring: What you will find on this page

Table of content
  • Ensure optimal VDI performance with real-time monitoring
  • What VDI monitoring looks like in PRTG
  • 4 reasons why PRTG is the VDI monitoring tool of your choice
  • Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for VDI monitoring
  • Monitoring VDI environments: FAQ

PRTG makes VDI monitoring as easy as it gets

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

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Ensure optimal VDI performance with real-time monitoring

Do you know what's happening in your virtual desktop environment right now? With PRTG comprehensive monitoring solution, you gain complete visibility into your VDI infrastructure, allowing you to detect and resolve issues before they affect productivity. Your users will experience consistently responsive virtual desktops.

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Complete visibility

Monitor every component of your VDI stack from a single interface. You can track physical hosts, virtual machines, storage systems, and network performance together. This holistic view helps you understand the relationships between different parts of your virtual server monitoring environment.

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Instant troubleshooting

Pinpoint the exact source of performance problems in seconds, not hours. You can correlate metrics across different layers of your infrastructure to identify root causes. This rapid diagnosis capability minimizes downtime and keeps your remote desktop monitoring and business process monitoring at peak efficiency.

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Intuitive visualization

Transform complex VDI metrics into easy-to-understand graphs and charts. You can create visual representations that clearly communicate system health to technical and non-technical stakeholders. These visualizations make performance trends in your CPU monitoring and virtualization monitoring environment immediately apparent.

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Custom thresholds

Define performance parameters that match your specific business requirements. You can set different alert levels for various user groups, applications, and times of day. These tailored thresholds ensure you receive relevant notifications for your application performance monitoring and anomaly detection monitoring needs.

What VDI monitoring looks like in PRTG

Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking virtual desktop performance, user session metrics and host resource utilization. Show latency measurements 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 capacity limitations.

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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 monitoring VDI workloads and performance metrics with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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4 reasons why PRTG is the VDI monitoring tool of your choice

When managing virtual desktop infrastructure, you know how quickly things can go wrong. From sudden VM crashes to storage bottlenecks and hypervisor issues, problems in your VDI environment can leave users frustrated and unproductive. Even worse, troubleshooting these issues can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack without the right monitoring solution in place.

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Flexible licensing

Choose the subscription model that perfectly fits your monitoring needs without breaking your budget. You can start small and scale up as your VDI environment grows, paying only for the sensors you actually need. Adjust your license at any time to accommodate changes in your virtualization monitoring and server performance monitoring requirements.

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Responsive support

Access expert assistance whenever you encounter challenges with your monitoring setup. You can reach our knowledgeable support team through multiple channels including email, phone, and the comprehensive knowledge base. Benefit from fast response times and thorough solutions to keep your virtual machine monitoring and remote desktop monitoring running smoothly.

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Centralized notifications

Consolidate alerts from your entire VDI stack into a single, manageable notification system. You can define escalation procedures, on-call schedules, and notification methods that match your operational workflow. Eliminate alert fatigue while ensuring critical issues in your Citrix monitoring and application performance monitoring environment never go unnoticed.

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Minimal overhead

Deploy a monitoring solution that consumes very little resources on your VDI hosts. You can monitor your entire virtual desktop infrastructure without adding significant load to already busy servers. Maintain peak performance of your VMware monitoring and VMware ESXi monitoring environment even while comprehensive monitoring is active.

Explore our preconfigured PRTG sensors for VDI 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!

VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP)

The VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP) sensor monitors a virtual machine (VM) on a VMware host server using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). It can show the following and more:

CPU readiness and usage

  • Datastore total read and write latency
  • Disk usage and read and write speed
  • Active and consumed memory
  • Received and transmitted bytes
VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP)
VMware Virtual Machine (SOAP)

VMware Host Hardware Status (SOAP)

The VMware Host Hardware Status (SOAP) sensor monitors the hardware status of a VMware host server using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). It gives you a general status overview of the host. It can show the following:

  • Downtime
  • Total number of items in the alert, warning, normal, and unknown status as the vSphere client reports
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VMware Host Hardware Status (SOAP)

VMware Host Performance (SOAP)

The VMware Host Performance (SOAP) sensor monitors a VMware host server using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). It can show the following and more:

  • CPU readiness and usage
  • Datastore total read and write latency
  • Disk usage, read and write speed, kernel latency, and device latency
  • Active and consumed memory
  • Received and transmitted bytes
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VMware Host Performance (SOAP)

Hyper-V Host Server

The Hyper-V Host Server sensor monitors a Microsoft Hyper-V host server via WMI or Windows performance counters. It can show the following:

  • CPU usage of the hypervisor, the guests, and in total
  • Network traffic
  • Number of deposited pages
  • Number of host health-critical values
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Hyper-V Host Server

Citrix XenServer Host

The Citrix XenServer Host sensor monitors a Xen host server via HTTP. It can show the following:

  • CPU usage
  • Load average amount
  • Number of running virtual machines
  • Total available and used memory
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Citrix XenServer Host

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 VDI monitoring as easy as it gets

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

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“With PRTG, you get a centralized, intuitive, all-in-one tool that monitors the entire infrastructure. In the event of an error, the software immediately informs you by email. If you don’t hear from PRTG, you can sit back and relax, knowing everything is in order. Shortly after implementing PRTG, we were able to identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks in our VMware environment and load problems in our network.”

Steffen Ille, Head of Infrastructure, Service Center for Computer Systems and Communication
Bauhaus University Weimar

“The demands on our entire IT infrastructure have grown steadily in recent years. An important step towards the optimization of this environment involved the virtualization of our digital landscape. In order to maintain the required transparency and the uninterrupted performance of all our systems, we needed a powerful network monitoring tool. For us, the most important selection criteria were price-performance ratio and ease of use. PRTG met all our expectations and has proven to be an indispensable part of our network management.”

Daniel Baumgartner, Network Administrator
Volkswind

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Find the root cause of the problem with our PRTG comprehensive virtual desktop monitoring solution

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

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VDI Monitoring: FAQ

 

What is a VDI monitoring tool?

A VDI monitoring tool provides end-to-end visibility into your virtual desktop infrastructure. It helps IT teams track performance metrics across virtual desktops, host servers, and endpoints to ensure optimal user experience. These tools collect data on CPU usage monitoring, memory monitoring, network latency monitoring, and other critical metrics to help identify and resolve performance issues before they impact productivity. With comprehensive VDI monitoring tools, you can establish performance baselines and observe when metrics deviate from normal patterns.

How does PRTG help with monitoring virtual desktop environments?

PRTG offers complete virtualization monitoring for your VDI environment. It provides real-time dashboards that display key performance indicators for Citrix monitoring, VMware monitoring, and Microsoft environments. PRTG automates the discovery of VDI components and continuously monitors metrics like logon times, application performance monitoring, and resource utilization. This comprehensive approach gives you visibility into your entire VDI infrastructure, from the data center to the end-user workspace.

What metrics should I monitor in my VDI environment?

For effective VDI monitoring, focus on these key metrics: CPU monitoring and memory usage on host servers, storage monitoring, network throughput, user logon times, application response times, and session duration. PRTG can track all these metrics with its server performance monitoring capabilities. Additionally, monitor endpoint monitoring to understand the digital experience from the user perspective. Establishing performance baselines for these metrics helps identify abnormal patterns that might indicate issues requiring network troubleshooting.

Can PRTG monitor cloud-based VDI solutions like Microsoft Azure and AWS?

Yes, PRTG effectively monitors cloud-based VDI solutions including Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop and AWS WorkSpaces. It provides insights into DaaS (Desktop as a Service) environments through cloud performance monitoring sensors. PRTG can track resource utilization, costs, and performance metrics for these cloud platforms, giving you complete observability across hybrid environments that combine on-premises and cloud monitoring for virtual desktops.

How does VDI monitoring improve employee experience?

VDI monitoring directly impacts employee experience by ensuring virtual desktops perform optimally. By using application monitoring to track response times and identify bandwidth bottlenecks, IT teams can proactively address issues before users report them. This leads to faster, more responsive virtual desktops and improved productivity. PRTG helps identify the root cause of performance issues, whether they stem from network latency, insufficient resources, or application problems, allowing for quick resolution and a better overall digital experience. 

What are common use cases for VDI monitoring tools?

Common use cases include: troubleshooting performance issues across the VDI stack, capacity planning based on usage patterns, optimizing resource allocation, tracking user experience metrics for SaaS applications accessed through virtual desktops, and ensuring compliance with service level agreements. PRTG supports all these scenarios through its comprehensive network monitoring capabilities. VDI monitoring tools are particularly valuable during migration projects, peak usage periods, and when implementing new VDI solutions. 

How does PRTG integrate VDI monitoring with broader IT infrastructure monitoring?

PRTG provides unified monitoring that integrates VDI performance management with broader infrastructure monitoring. This holistic approach allows IT teams to correlate issues between virtual machine monitoring and underlying infrastructure components. For example, you can determine if slow virtual desktop performance stems from network congestion, storage bottlenecks, or host server problems. PRTG centralizes alerts & notifications and reporting across your entire environment, streamlining troubleshooting workflows and enabling more effective performance management for your complete IT infrastructure.

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 monitoring VDI workloads and performance metrics with PRTG and see how it can make your network more reliable and your job easier.

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