Paessler PRTG Reviews

Summary: I’ve been using PRTG Network Monitor for my home and homelab setup, and it has far exceeded my expectations. The installation process was straightforward, and the setup was a breeze—simply adding a device allows PRTG to auto-discover relevant sensors, making the monitoring process essentially plug-and-play.

What makes PRTG stand out for home or small-scale use is its user-friendly interface and robust features. For someone with a homelab, the automatic network discovery and pre-configured monitoring templates eliminate most of the complexity. I was up and running in no time, with real-time monitoring of devices and proactive alerts when something goes wrong.

Moreover, PRTG’s ability to map out connected devices visually is incredible. It delivers insightful overviews and dashboards that make it so much easier to monitor the health of my network. For home setups, where we’re often on a budget, the freeware plan (up to 100 sensors) is more than sufficient to cover the essentials.

Overall, PRTG has proven to be reliable, feature-rich, and surprisingly simple to use, making it an excellent tool for network monitoring at any scale—from home enthusiasts to larger environments.

Advice: know what you want to monitor or you'll run out of sensors ;-)

Positive: Easy Installation & Setup: Quick to install, straightforward to add devices; PRTG auto-discovers sensors with minimal input required.
User-Friendly Interface: Clean interface with intuitive navigation—great for beginners and power users alike.
Automatic Device & Sensor Discovery: PRTG finds and sets up relevant sensors for new devices automatically, minimizing manual configuration.
Customizable Dashboards & Alerts: Effective visualization tools and flexible alerting keep you informed about network health.
Free Version Available: The free version (up to 100 sensors) is more than sufficient for most home and small lab setups.
Versatile Monitoring: Supports a wide range of devices and protocols (SNMP, WMI, flow, etc.), covering most network needs.
Active Community & Documentation: Lots of online help and documentation for troubleshooting and tips.

Negative: Sensor Counting Can Be Confusing: Some users find the way PRTG counts “sensors” (one sensor per metric) a bit confusing, which can eat up your free limit quickly.
Resource Use: The software can be resource-intensive on larger setups; may require better hardware to run smoothly if scaling up.
Overwhelming Amount of Data: For home users, the sheer volume of information and settings might be daunting at first.
Interface Feels Dated to Some: While functional, a few users feel the web UI could use a more modern look.
Limited by Free Tier: Advanced features and larger environments may require a paid license.

Summary: Amazing service and an excellent tool for working with an organization that has lots of systems, servers, network equipment, and more.

Positive: PRTG is an amazingly simple tool that helps monitor all the equipment we have in our organization.
With this system, in any malfunction or crisis, we can quickly diagnose the source of the problem and solve it in an instant.
We have configured all the servers and equipment in the system and it knows how to give us a quick look as soon as something happens.
And that way, we can diagnose the problem quickly.

Negative: The price is very expensive and not suitable for every organization, which is a shame.
If the price were more affordable, maybe more organizations would purchase it.

Summary: We've been using PRTG for several years now, and it has become an essential part of our IT operations. It's a powerful and intuitive tool that allows us to monitor our entire network infrastructure and applications effectively. The mapping feature provides clear visual insight into the status of critical systems, and the alerting system is reliable and well-designed. The product is constantly evolving, offering new sensors that help us achieve more precise and detailed monitoring.

That said, the management of lookups could be improved — editing configuration files manually on the probe isn’t very user-friendly. A dedicated interface would make this process much smoother. Additionally, the map editor lacks confirmation prompts, making it easy to lose work with a single wrong click. Some extra validation steps would greatly enhance usability and prevent accidental deletions.

Despite these points, PRTG remains a highly valuable and well-supported solution, with an active community and responsive technical support.

Positive: We've had a very positive and satisfying experience with PRTG over the years. We've been using the product for several years now, and it's proven to be the perfect solution for monitoring our network infrastructure and applications.

PRTG is intuitive and well-designed, making it easy to create detailed dashboards and maps that give us a clear visual representation of the status of critical machines and services. The notification system is also very well thought out, allowing us to react quickly to any anomalies.

One of PRTG’s key strengths is that it's constantly evolving, which means we regularly gain access to new sensors that we can deploy to achieve more precise and comprehensive monitoring of our systems.

The user community plays an essential role as well, often helping us solve very specific sensor-related issues. On top of that, the technical support team is responsive and effective, often providing spot-on answers that help resolve complex problems.

At this point, we honestly can’t imagine working without PRTG — it’s become a central part of our IT operations.

Negative: What I like less about the software is the way lookups are managed. It could be more user-friendly — right now, you have to manually edit text files directly on the probe, which isn't very convenient. There should be a dedicated interface for this, similar to how thresholds are managed.

Also, the maps feature feels a bit limited, and there's a lack of confirmation prompts when deleting items. One wrong move and you can lose everything you've built. There should be more validation steps when modifying maps, especially for deletions. Just hovering over an item and accidentally clicking the trash icon can wipe out your work in an instant…

Summary: One of the best monitor tools out there, Versatile, Robust, good customisation and easy to implement in any environment.

Positive: The number of sensor types is outstanding.
Not just SNMP but a multitude of standard sensor imputs are possible as well as custom scripts in various formats.
The remote probe is great for multitenant or remote sites.

Negative: Hardware Scaling of large PRTG installations is something to plan ahead for

Summary: PRTG is an outstanding network monitoring solution. It offers robust performance, flexibility, and ease of use. Whether you're managing a small business or a large enterprise infrastructure, easy to install and a comprehensive toolkit to monitor devices, traffic, and applications, all from a single intuitive dashboard.

PRTG is for us a top-tier monitoring solution that combines ease of use with powerful capabilities. It’s a reliable choice for IT teams looking to gain complete visibility and control over their network environments.


One of PRTG's standout features is its user-friendly interface. The setup process is straightforward, and sensor deployment is fast, making it accessible even for users who are new to network monitoring. Its auto-discovery capability saves a lot of time by identifying network devices and setting up relevant sensors automatically.

The level of customization available is impressive. The alerting system is highly responsive and can be configured to notify via email, SMS, push notifications, or even third-party integrations.

PRTG's performance is highly reliable, with real-time data visualization and detailed historical reports that make it easy to track performance trends or diagnose issues. The support for various protocols (like SNMP, WMI, NetFlow, and HTTP) makes it versatile enough for monitoring virtually any network component.

In terms of scalability, PRTG grows well with your network. The licensing model based on sensor count is transparent and allows flexibility depending on your needs.

Positive: - Intuitive UI and quick setup
- Powerful alerting and automation
- Highly customizable dashboards and reports
- Excellent support for various monitoring protocols
- Scales well for businesses of all sizes

Negative: - Sensor-based licensing might require careful planning for large deployments
- Some advanced features may require a learning curve

Summary: Overall PRTG keeps us instantly up to date about any outages or incidents on our network. Its great integration capabilities with PagerDuty and Jira are great so we can keep track of incidents and outages.

Positive: Simple to setup and maintain.
Easy to use with predefined templates for firewalls, switches, access points...
Easy to work with.
Easy to integrate with PagerDuty and any other app.
Amazing support.

Negative: PRTG Monitoring Website could be a bit nicer looking but other than that everything is great!

Summary: PRTG is the go-to monitoring tool for industry professionals and for very good reason. Setting up as a first time user can be a learning curve however with plenty of documentation and great customer support, it's pretty simple.

Positive: PRTG is a useful, detailed and trusted tool for IT Professionals around the world, with great customer support when you need it.

The ability to create maps and have monitoring dashboards is very useful to monitor critical systems. The entire system eco is fantastic with clear roadmaps to create a more streamlined product with their new dashboard.

Negative: Having custom map icons is very simple, however having active sensors showing on the map icons is extremely difficult to setup and is not supported by PRTG at the time of writing this review, for our specific use case for PRTG, this would be great. That said, the dynamic icons for provided with PRTG are very good and have always covered every use case I've ever needed throughout my career.

Summary: The tool needed to get the network status in right time!!
The amazing network monitor tool , with great functionalities.

Positive: Easy to install and setup and low time to get in production. The dashboard is completely customized and i can show the parameters i just need.

Negative: The sizing is by sensor, i will prefer it will be by device.

Summary: Excellent product, you can send out alerts, through power automate, we can create actions from this, it alerts us to all of our incidents and I am able to keep an eye on everything, excellent product, happy with tech support,

Positive: Translates MIB to their readable format and is easy to use, MIB tester as well, plenty of their own templates, they also monitor our storage, which doesn't allow SNMP queries, but it manages to get the relevant information from it

Negative: Some of the automations are quite complicate and I need assistance with anything programming wise

Summary: Quite satisfying SW.
It drives me more curious about IT and infra.
Easy to understand overall of IT infra.

Positive: Terrific dashboard.
Easy to config, don't have to handle so much.
License pricing is very reasonable.
Support team take me with kind supporting.

Negative: I want to make my dashboard more fancy. Need decorating function.

Summary: Paessler PRTG is a dependable and feature-rich network monitoring solution that meets the needs of organizations with complex IT environments. Despite the initial setup and learning investment, it proves its worth by offering robust and versatile monitoring capabilities. The reliable alerts and insightful reporting make it invaluable for proactive IT management and problem resolution.

Positive: Paessler PRTG is a powerful tool for network monitoring that provides extensive capabilities for tracking the health, performance, and usage across our entire IT infrastructure. The customizable dashboards allow me to keep a close eye on critical network parameters in real time, which is particularly valuable in quickly identifying and addressing any potential issues before they impact our users. The solution’s modular approach with sensor-based licensing is also very flexible, allowing us to scale our monitoring setup easily as our infrastructure grows. Additionally, PRTG’s alerts and reporting features are highly customizable, ensuring that notifications and performance insights are tailored precisely to our organization’s needs.

Negative: While PRTG offers an impressive array of features, it can initially feel overwhelming, especially for less-experienced users. The learning curve is noticeable as there are so many settings and configurations to understand before you can optimize its use effectively. Additionally, the interface, though functional, can appear dated in comparison to other network monitoring tools and may benefit from a modern refresh to enhance the user experience.

Summary: I recommend the use of the tool in both very large and very small environments, my suggestion is that you try a trial version and install less than 100 devices to monitor, if you have the opportunity to monitor Cisco switches with the NETFLOW protocol and sensor it is a great experience

Positive: Its an It is a great monitoring tool, its installation is very easy to achieve as are the sensors inside the tool. To me it is a sensational tool in the observability part since it allows us to anticipate future events, especially in the network part, if you implement the netflow sensor you have a complete x-ray of the network traffic and it allows you to make a capacity planner if you are falling short in your infrastructure.In addition, installing the agents (remote probe) to collect monitoring information for the servers is very easy.

Negative: There should be more options for cloud services, if you want a solution that is not on premise. They only offer service with AWS and it is not fully managed by the Paessler company, which generates many points of failure. For additional tools like IT Ops Board or SLA Reporter they should offer more database options like MySql, Maria DB, etc and not just Microsoft SQL Server

Summary: Excellent platform. Well priced and works exactly as advertised. We rely on this heavily for notifications and it's never failed us.

Positive: Large feature-set, lots of granular options, works reliably, visually pleasing user interface, reasonably priced.

Negative: UI is sometimes hard to navigate, options can sometimes be buried or hard to find.

Summary: Paessler PRTG is a powerful network monitoring tool with real-time visibility and alerting capabilities, valuable for any IT infrastructure.

Positive: Its real-time monitoring capability is essential for supervising the network infrastructure and detecting anomalies immediately. PRTG enables complete visibility of connected devices, making it easy to identify potential vulnerabilities. Customizable alert settings are very useful for receiving instant notifications about any suspicious activity, enhancing our proactive response capabilities.

Negative: Customization of certain advanced features can be complex, which could limit the ability to fully tailor PRTG to specific needs.

Summary: Overall, I don't want to use any other monitoring platform after using this. Adding additional sensor licenses, even adding an additional probe for segmented networks, or for more capacity is a breeze. Their support is also very responsive and knowledgeable...and you cannot beat the price.

Positive: Setting up new monitors is extremely simple and the product is very robust. This product makes handling SNMP monitoring very simple, and the pre-built sensors for most items just work right out of the box with very little configuration.

Negative: I wish the visual maps that you can create had a better interface, but they are still better than any other monitoring platform I have used.