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Is it possible to setup sensors to determine how much of our network bandwidth is going to streaming services such as youtube, netflix, hulu, etc?

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Created on Jul 18, 2018 12:31:18 PM



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Hi there,

PRTG supports monitoring via Packet Sniffing, flow and similar techniques (see this article) but PRTG is not an "Internet audit/monitoring solution" as a proxy or Firewall would be.

PRTG will also only go down to Layer 4 and identify protocols and destinations within traffic, but will not identify URL's and applications.

As an Unified Monitoring Solution PRTG is designed to monitor your network's devices for uptime/performance and connectivity but although it can monitor flow and some other traffic sources it is not a full scale internet URL/user audit and monitoring solution.

I'm sorry that I can't offer you a more satisfactory answer.

Best regards,
Sebastian

Created on Jul 19, 2018 6:53:08 AM by Sebastian Kniege [Paessler Support]




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