Monitoring Matters Webinar Series Recap: From Network to Storage

They’re also 100% on-demand, completely free, and registration-free. Click, watch, and learn at your own pace. Whether you’re an experienced PRTG user looking to fine-tune your existing monitoring setup, or you’re just beginning to look at comprehensive monitoring solutions, our 45-minute webinars are full of helpful information for IT professionals at any stage.

🧋 So grab a beverage of your choice, get comfortable, and enjoy the show. Each webinar includes live demos, real-world use cases, and best practice recommendations from our team of monitoring experts. Now, without further ado, let’s check out what each webinar covers, and why monitoring these infrastructure components is so crucial for keeping your IT environment running reliably and performing at its best.

July 2025: Keep Switches, Routers & Firewalls in Check

Network devices are the foundation for every IT infrastructure. Switches forward traffic to other devices, routers interconnect networks, and firewalls secure your network’s perimeter. When these crucial devices falter or underperform, the entire organization suffers. Network devices that are unmonitored can cause blind spots in your infrastructure, leading to performance issues, security risks, and unplanned downtime.

What you'll learn:

🌐 Setting up PRTG sensors for switches, routers, and firewalls

🌐 Monitoring bandwidth utilization and interface status

🌐 Tracking CPU and memory usage on network devices

🌐 Monitoring error rates and packet loss

🌐 Configuring early-warning alerts and thresholds

🌐 Best practices for ongoing network device health

Gain valuable tips for keeping your network infrastructure running smoothly. From single office networks to distributed enterprise environments, see how to monitor these fundamental devices for maximum visibility and control across your network.

Watch the full webinar on-demand:

👉 Keep switches, routers & firewalls in check with PRTG

August 2025: Master Virtualization Monitoring

Virtualization has enabled new ways to provision and use IT resources, but it also comes with a unique set of monitoring needs. VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, Citrix Hypervisor, and Nutanix environments all run multiple virtual machines on shared hardware. It is crucial to maintain full visibility into where resources are allocated, how they are performing, and whether their availability. If not monitored correctly, you risk under-provisioning - which causes application and service failures, or over-provisioning - which leads to inefficient use of your infrastructure.

This session covers:

☁️ Monitoring VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, Citrix, and Nutanix platforms

☁️ CPU and memory allocation across virtual machines

☁️ Storage I/O performance and datastore capacity

☁️ VM snapshot monitoring and management

☁️ Cluster health and high availability status

☁️ Real-world customer use cases for multi-hypervisor environments

The session also includes live demonstrations and customer use cases that showcase how PRTG can help you easily monitor multi-hypervisor and hybrid cloud environments.

Discover how to set up dashboards with real-time and historical visibility that enable proactive monitoring for faster issue resolution and minimal service disruption.

Access the complete virtualization monitoring webinar here:

👉 Master Virtualization Monitoring with PRTG

September 2025: Monitor Your Physical Servers Like a Pro

In the era of virtualization, physical servers still have not lost their relevance and are used more often than others. On-prem physical servers are frequently used for high-performance applications, databases and legacy systems that cannot be virtualized or that demand additional power. A physical server is a substantial capital expenditure, and its sudden death can be fatal for a company. Hardware monitoring alerts you to failing components, and timely actions to address the problem help prevent an expensive outage.

Featured topics:

🖥️ Setting up monitoring for Dell, HPE, Fujitsu, Cisco UCS, and IBM servers

🖥️ Leveraging SNMP and Redfish APIs for hardware monitoring

🖥️ Hardware health status and component monitoring

🖥️ Temperature sensors and thermal management

🖥️ Fan speed monitoring and cooling systems

🖥️ RAID controller status and disk health

Detecting problems in advance means that you can address them during planned maintenance windows, rather than facing unexpected downtime.

If you’re monitoring a single server or a data center with hundreds of racks, this session will provide you with valuable insights.

Watch the replay:

👉 Monitor your Physical Servers with PRTG

October 2025: Monitoring UPS, PDUs & Environmental Systems

Power and environmental issues are frequently taken for granted until a major failure occurs. UPS systems, power distribution units (PDUs) and environmental monitoring systems help keep your IT gear safe from power sags, spikes, outages, high and low temperatures, and humidity. However, without proper monitoring, you may not be aware of problems like ailing batteries, overloaded circuits, or cooling system failures and environmental risks until a disaster has already happened.

You'll discover:

⚡ Monitoring APC, Eaton, Rittal, Kentix, and Gude devices

⚡ Protocol selection: SNMP, Modbus, MQTT, and OPC UA

⚡ Power consumption and load distribution

⚡ Battery health and runtime estimation

⚡ Temperature, humidity, and water detection

⚡ Early-warning systems for power infrastructure

Whether it’s a single server room, enterprise data center or an industrial site, effective power and environmental monitoring give you the early warnings you need to avoid a disaster. 

In this session, you will learn how to set up a monitoring solution that can alert you to problems before they lead to equipment damage or prolonged downtime.

Discover power and environmental monitoring best practices:

👉 Monitoring UPS, PDUs & Environmental Systems with Paessler PRTG

November 2025: Multi-Vendor Storage Monitoring

Storage systems provide the basis for data availability and business continuity. Whether you use traditional SAN/NAS arrays, software-defined storage (SDS), or hybrid cloud storage, these are the systems that contain your organization’s most valuable asset: data. Storage outages and failures don’t just cause downtime. They cause data loss, failed backups, compliance violations, and other issues. As the complexity of multi-vendor storage environments increase, having a solution that offers unified monitoring and alerting across all storage platforms is critical to avoiding visibility blind spots.

In this webinar:

💾 Unified monitoring for Dell EMC, NetApp, HPE, Synology, QNAP, and Buffalo

💾 Protocol options: SNMP, REST APIs, WMI, and custom sensors

💾 Capacity utilization and growth trending

💾 I/O performance and latency metrics

💾 RAID health and disk status monitoring

💾 Building custom dashboards and configuring proactive alerts

Watch this webinar to see how you can create a single pane of glass view to gain full storage visibility across your entire infrastructure. Whether your environment is on-premises, cloud-based, or a hybrid, this webinar demonstrates how you can streamline storage monitoring and improve your response time to storage incidents before they affect business operations.

Watch the storage monitoring webinar now:

👉 Multi-Vendor Storage Monitoring That Saves Your Day

Start Monitoring with Confidence

This five webinar series provides a complete overview of infrastructure monitoring, including the network layer, compute, power and storage. Each 45 minute webinar is full of demos, expert advice and "ready for prime time" tips you can use right now.

Available on-demand, no registration required. View all to gain a full infrastructure monitoring education, or just pick those which are most relevant to you. Regardless, you will learn something that will lead you to create more reliable, better monitored IT infrastructures.

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