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Simplify Your Day WithPRTG

Jasmin Kahriman, Senior System Engineer

Dirk Paessler’s garagein Fürth, Bavaria

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SOFTWARE / DEVELOPMENT BUSINESS

DEVELOPMENT

MARKETINGTECHNICAL SUPPORT

SHOPTEAM

ONLINEMARKETING

PR

CXO

SALES

IT

CUSTOMERSERVICE

DESIGN

HR /FINANCES

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• US is the largest market, followed by DACH and UK

• Companies of all sizes and industries

• 70% of Fortune 100 Enterprises worldwide use PRTG

• More than 200,000 installations in 195 countries

Paessler -The Network Monitoring Company

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Would our customers recommend PRTG?

4% No / Don’t know

46% Yes, Have already recommended!

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Paessler AG was named an April 2019 Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools.

Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner Peer Insights Customers’ Choice distinctions are determined by the subjective opinions of individual end-user customers based on their own experiences, the number of published reviews on Gartner Peer Insights and overall ratings for a given vendor in the market, as further described here, and are not intended in any way to represent the views of Gartner or its affiliates.

Reviews from enterprise peers—verified by Gartner

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Why do we need monitoring?

MEASUREINFORM &

ALERTANALYZE OPTIMIZE

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What kind of devices can PRTG monitor?

ANALYZE

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How does PRTG speak with network devices?

ANALYZE

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• One solution for everything

• Smart and easy performance

• Customize your monitoring

• Fair and simple licensing

PRTG simplifies your daily IT work

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PRTG Distributed Monitoring

TLS

Memory Buffer

BRANCH OFFICE HOSTING PROVIDER

CORPORATE LAN

Video: Distributed Monitoring

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• HA for your monitoring environment

• Cluster functionality included in every license

• Remote probes are configurable

• Cluster illustration

PRTG high-availability cluster

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• Ajax Web Interface

• PRTG Desktop App

• PRTG Mobile Apps

PRTG User Interfaces

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PRTG Sensors

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A sensor is one aspect on one device, e.g. CPU usage, disk free, uptime, etc.

What is a Sensor?

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Each sensor includes multiple metrics

PRTG Sensor ChannelsDell System Health Sensor

Ping sensors

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Sensor States

Green → Up

Orange → Unusual

Bright Red → Down (acknowledged)

Yellow →Warning

Black (Gray) → Unknown

Red/Green → Down (partial)

Blue → Paused

Red → Down

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• 250+ pre-defined sensor types• Bandwidth, web servers, SNMP, WMI, Windows, Linux, virtual servers,

email, database, file servers, VoIP, QoS, …

• Easy to define additional sensor types• Custom SNMP, scripts, WMI, flow, …

• Anything you can script, you can do

• List of available Sensor Types

PRTG Sensor Types

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Methods for bandwidth monitoring

• SNMP

• PerfCount/ WMI

• Flow (Netflow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX)

• Packet Sniffing

PRTG Sensor Types – Example

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• Be informed about errors or warnings

• Be informed about threshold violations

• Create tickets for follow up

• Documentation e.g. event log entry

Why notifications?

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Notification types

Send a message Log information Execute an action

Send Email Add Entry to Event Log Execute HTTP Action

Send Push Notification Send Syslog Message Execute Program

Send SMS/Pager Message Send SNMP Trap Assign Ticket

Send Slack Message

Send MS Teams Message

Send Amazon SN

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• Real-time status information• Displayed graphically

• You determine the level of detail• Different user groups

• Different administrators

• Simple drag-and-drop editor

• Unique URL for each map

PRTG dashboard maps

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Custom maps: VMware monitoring

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Reporting Options

• Historic data

• Reports

• API

PRTG Reporting

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Alliance & Technology Partnership

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Participating in establishing technology partnerprograms, Paessler assures up-to-date supportfor leading technology products.

Technology Partnerships

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• Paessler’s Technology Alliance Program

• Launched in August 2017

• Focus on customer benefit: 100% uptime

• Solutions that complement PRTG and vice versa

PaesslerUptime Alliance

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Uptime Alliance Partners

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Thank you.

Jasmin Kahriman, Senior System Engineer