What options does PRTG provide?
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What options does PRTG provide?
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This article applies as of PRTG 22
There are several ways to review your monitoring data in the PRTG web interface:
The Overview tab shows an overview of the selected monitoring object and its sensors or channels. The pages share a common structure but some elements differ depending on the object that you select.
Objects | Page content |
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Probes and groups | The tab shows a tree-like view with devices and sensors, a geographical map, as well as graphs that show historic data for different time spans for the probe or group. |
Devices | The tab shows device details, a geographical map, and graphs that show historic data for different time spans, gauges, as well as table lists of all sensors on the selected device, and a table list with recommended sensors. You can turn off the recommended sensors detection under Setup | System Administration | Monitoring, section Recommended Sensors Detection. Assign a 4-star (****) or a 5-star (*****) priority to a sensor to display this sensor on the selected device's Overview tab. PRTG represents sensors with a 5-star priority by larger gauges than sensors with a 4-star priority. |
Sensors | The tab shows sensor details, the sensor status, gauges, graphs that show historic data for different time spans, a table list with all channels, as well as similar sensors. You can turn off the similar sensors detection under Setup | System Administration | Monitoring, section Similar Sensors Detection. |
The main visual representations of channel values are gauges. You can use the gauges as a quick sensor status indicator.
Toplists are only available for Packet Sniffer and flow (NetFlow, jFlow, sFlow, IPFIX) sensors that break down traffic by IP address, port, protocol, and other parameters.
PRTG can determine the IP address, connection, or protocol that uses the most bandwidth and displays the results in Toplists.
You can find Toplist graphs on the respective sensor's Overview tab.
Toplists are described in more detail in the PRTG Manual: Toplists.
If you select a specific probe, group, device, or sensor, there are several tabs that you can use to review your monitoring data with.
For probes, groups, and devices, the 2 days, 30 days, and 365 days tabs each show a summary graph for the selected object and time span, mini graphs for all sensors on the object, as well as a data table for the object.
Mini graphs
For performance reasons, PRTG never displays more than 50 mini graphs. You can click a mini graph to navigate to the respective sensor's Overview tab.
Summary graphs
Summary graphs show the number of alarms as well as three indexes:
Metric | Description |
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Alarms | Sums up the number of all Down states of sensors on this object during the specified time span. |
Response Time Index | Indicates the overall request times in your network. |
CPU Load Index | Indicates the overall CPU load in your network. |
Traffic Index | Indicates the bandwidth usage in your network. |
The three indexes show trends in your network. The values are based on the readings of all sensors on the selected object. To compute the index values, PRTG uses statistics and compares the values to the highest and lowest readings that have ever been recorded.
For example, a CPU Load Index value of 90% means that the average CPU load for all sensors in your PRTG configuration that measure the CPU load is at 90% of the highest CPU load value that PRTG ever measured.
For more information about indexes, see also How does PRTG compute CPU Index, Traffic Index and Response Time Index?.
You can individually hide single indexes in the summary graph. To do this, disable the check box next to the index name below the graph. The respective line in the graph immediately disappears. You can also click Show all or Hide all to show or hide all indexes. You cannot hide the Alarms metric.
For sensors, the Live data, 2 days, 30 days, and 365 days tabs each show a graph and data table for the selected sensor.
Note: When you view the monitoring data of a sensor that runs on a cluster probe, you can additionally select if you want to show the data of all cluster nodes, or only of a specific cluster node. To do so, use the Show Data of option above the graph.
The graph for a sensor shows the values of all channels including the Downtime channel. You can individually hide single channels in the graph. To do this, disable the check box next to the channel name below the graph. The respective line in the graph immediately disappears. You can also click Show all or Hide all to show or hide all channels.
Note: For sensors that have channels with defined warning or error limits, you can also view the respective limits in the sensor's graph. Display only the channel with the defined limits. PRTG highlights warning limits in light yellow and error limits in light red in the background of the graph.
The graphs on a sensor's Live data, 2 days, 30 days, or 365 days tabs are all interactive. You can zoom in and scroll along the time axis via the corresponding buttons.
The following actions are available:
In the upper-right corner of each graph, you can find the following three icons: .
There are more tabs that you can use to review your monitoring data but that will not be described in more detail here:
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