Published by Dirk Paessler
Last updated on March 03, 2022
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3 minute read
PRTG has become the Windows tool of choice for bandwidth and network usage monitoring. It brings many SNMP monitoring features from MRTG - which is well known in the Linux community - to the Windows plattform and adds a packet sniffer and NetFlow Monitoring for Cisco Routers.
New Features
Here is a shortlist of the most notable changes in this new version:
- Tags: Sensors can be assigned tags (keywords) and the sensorlist can be filtered based on these tags. Makes working with a large number of sensors much easier
- Device Templates: A group of SNMP sensors can be saved into a device template which can then be used to create the same set of sensors for another device.
- Events: Keeps tracks of events for all sensors (e.g. all error messages or notifications)
- Schedules: Sensors and notifications can be paused based on day-of-week and hour-of-day
- Latency Sensor: This new sensor type uses PINGs to monitor the network latency of a device or a data line. This can be used to find overloaded network devices which usually show high variations of latency readings
- Background color of a sensor's graph changes to a light red if the sensor shows an error
Improved Features
- Updated design of the Windows GUI makes it easier to use
- Redesign of the Web GUI adds a lot of new functionality and three brand new skins
- Improved reporting engine with many new features and new export formats
- Packet Sniffer now supports 64bit operating systems
- Includes its own packet sniffer technology to improve compatibility (does not require installation and does not create conflicts with other sniffer software)
- The (optional) new watchdog service starts the PRTG service whenever it was stopped unintentionally
- And many smaller enhancements
You there!
