Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent unplanned downtime and full network outages.
Wide Area Network (WAN) monitoring is a big deal for any business that relies on stable, secure connections across vast distances – whether you’re bridging offices, connecting with remote workers, or supporting your SaaS infrastructure. Paessler PRTG steps in to make sure your WAN works like a charm while addressing the typical pain points of large-scale network monitoring.
Diagnose network issues by continuously tracking the availability and performance of connections and network devices in your wide area network. Show WAN latency, jitter, bandwidth utilization, packet loss, round-trip time, network traffic flow, and other key metrics in real time. Visualize monitoring data in clear graphs and dashboards to identify problems more easily. Gain the overview you need to troubleshoot unplanned downtime and full network outages.
Device tree view of the complete monitoring setup
Custom PRTG dashboard for keeping an eye on the entire IT infrastructure
Live traffic data graph in PRTG
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Stop unplanned downtime from bringing operations to a halt. Take control with PRTG’s powerful, user-friendly WAN monitoring software.
PRTG gives you the power of end-to-end observability across your entire WAN. With detailed insights into key metrics like throughput, latency, and application performance, you can easily detect and diagnose problems before they escalate.
These live data points are presented on user-friendly dashboards that provide at-a-glance status updates and deeper analysis when you need it.
No need for multiple tools. PRTG brings together monitoring for WANs, cloud networks, and on-premise systems in a single, centralized platform.
This unified approach simplifies your IT management, reduces tool sprawl, and ensures consistency across your entire infrastructure. From hybrid cloud environments to traditional data centers, PRTG handles it all with ease.
Stay ahead of potential issues with customizable notifications tailored to your unique needs. Whether it’s a minor latency increase or a critical packet loss, PRTG ensures you’re alerted in real time.
With flexible escalation paths, you can define who gets notified and how – email, SMS, or push notifications via the PRTG mobile app – ensuring that no problem slips through the cracks. You’ll catch small blips before they become big disruptions.
PRTG is designed with simplicity in mind, making it famously easy to deploy. With preconfigured sensors and an intuitive interface, setup can take hours, not days. Whether you’re a seasoned IT pro or a small business manager, you’ll find PRTG easy to use and highly effective.
Plus, its affordability and immediate results make it a tool that starts delivering value – and peace of mind – from day one.
Custom alerts and data visualization let you quickly identify and prevent unplanned downtime and full network outages.
PRTG is set up in a matter of minutes and can be used on a wide variety of mobile devices.
“Great interface, intuitive, full REST support. custom scripts, rest sensors add extra value. We have been using PRTG for 10 years now in multiple environments and use cases. it has by far the best interface and very easy to setup without prior experience.”
Partnering with innovative IT vendors, Paessler unleashes synergies to create
new and additional benefits for joined customers.
Combining PRTG’s broad monitoring feature set with IP Fabric’s automated network assurance creates a new level of network visibility and reliability.
By integrating PRTG with Martello iQ, you can add a fast analytics layer to improve uptime, visualize your IT environment, and integrate all of your IT systems into a single pane of glass.
With ScriptRunner Paessler integrates a powerful event automation platform into PRTG Network Monitor.
Real-time notifications mean faster troubleshooting so that you can act before more serious issues occur.
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A WAN (Wide Area Network) is a telecommunications network that extends over a large geographic area, often covering cities, countries, or even continents. It connects multiple smaller networks, such as Local Area Networks (LANs) or other WANs, enabling communication and data exchange between them.
WAN monitoring software provides deep analysis of WAN performance, connectivity, and bandwidth usage. PRTG’s WAN monitoring tool tracks all critical metrics such as routing efficiency, uptime, and throughput. It also analyzes latency, jitter, packet loss, and application performance. These insights are visualized in dashboards, enabling easy troubleshooting, resource allocation, and proactive maintenance.
Because guesswork and networks don’t miss, and distributed networks are infamous for crashing.. WAN monitoring makes sure that you get better connectivity for remote workforces. It helps with proactive identification of bottlenecks and underperforming routes. Faster troubleshooting, better security, and the ability to quickly optimize bandwidth allocation are just a few of the benefits of monitoring your wide area network.
There are two main PRTG components for successful WAN monitoring:
Local probe for your central server
Install PRTG in the environment which is primarily used to manage your IT infrastructure. Once the PRTG server has been installed, a local probe will automatically be created on the same computer. This local probe performs the monitoring and transfers data to the underlying core server.
Remote probe for your WAN
Install a remote probe on a computer in another location. This remote probe will monitor the network in that location and send data back to the PRTG core server. The installation takes a few short minutes.
Every sysadmin should know the latency values of their WAN, for latency is often the cause of poor WAN performance. Latency always has consequences. It must therefore be kept within reasonable limits. Latency spikes lead to malfunctions or lost connections. With PRTG, you can monitor latency continuously and be immediately alerted in the event of a drop in performance – giving you plenty of time to fix a problem before users catch on.
You can of course enter an individual ping command to obtain a one-time measurement of latency. But such a test will only provide you with a single measurement point. PRTG lets you monitor WAN latency around the clock, and thus gives you the bigger picture. You'll be able to tell, for example, if latency tends to spike at certain times and not at others.
In PRTG, “sensors” are the basic monitoring elements. One sensor usually monitors one measured value in your network, for example the traffic of a switch port, the CPU load of a server, or the free space on a disk drive. On average, you need about 5-10 sensors per device or one sensor per switch port.
Paessler conducted trials in over 600 IT departments worldwide to tune its network monitoring software closer to the needs of sysadmins. The result of the survey: over 95% of the participants would recommend PRTG – or already have.
Paessler PRTG is used by companies of all sizes. Sysadmins love PRTG because it makes their job a whole lot easier.
Bandwidth, servers, virtual environments, websites, VoIP services – PRTG keeps an eye on your entire network.
Everyone has different monitoring needs. That’s why we let you try PRTG for free.
