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Monitoring LSI/Broadcom RAID Controllers
How to set up monitoring for hardware RAID. This article applies to PRTG Network Monitor 16.3.25 or later Monitoring LSI/Broadcom RAID Drives (Physical and Logical) While there are no physical/virtual drive sensors in PRTG for LSI powered ...
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 11:27 AM
What sensors are deprecated and what are their successors or alternatives?
Note: If a deprecated sensor has no successor or alternative sensor listed, you can try to use a custom sensor. For more information, see the PRTG Manual: Custom Sensors. This article applies as of PRTG 25 List of deprecated sensors and t...
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 11:26 AM
SNMP free Memory Issue
Update: The SNMP Linux Meminfo v2 sensor is available as of PRTG 25.3.108. The channels better align with how free and available memory is calculated in Linux and accounts for buffered and cached memory as well. Hello community, maybe you can ...
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 11:25 AM
SNMP Linux Meminfo sensor: Problem w/ memory buffers/cache
Update: The SNMP Linux Meminfo v2 sensor is available as of PRTG 25.3.108. The channels better align with how free and available memory is calculated in Linux as accounts for buffered and cached memory as well. I just installed an SNMP Linux M...
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Value interpretation of Lookups
Is it possible to interpret integer values with a description using Lookups?  Example:  OID .1.3.6.1.4.1.318.1.1.1.3.2.5.0 of APC UPS systems. 1 No events 2 High line voltage 3 Brownout 4 Loss of mains power 5 Small temporary power dr...
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 10:08 AM
What can I monitor with the SNMP Custom Table sensor?
PRTG has a so-called SNMP Custom Table sensor.  What can I do with it? What are the differences to the SNMP Custom sensor or the SNMP Custom Advanced sensor? How can I set up this sensor? This article applies to PRTG Network Monit...
Wed, 15 Oct, 2025 at 9:43 AM
How and where does PRTG store its data?
This article applies as of PRTG 20 Important: The following article will no longer be updated. For up-to-date information, see the PRTG Manual: Data Storage and the respective section in the PRTG MultiBoard & PRTG app for desktop Manu...
Tue, 14 Oct, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Why do I see a “License not found” error message in PRTG?
This article applies to our products, such as PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Enterprise Monitor.  If you receive a License not found error message in PRTG, it is most likely one of the following:  1.  An error in the entered license key. It...
Fri, 10 Oct, 2025 at 2:37 PM
How can I allow other users to manage my PRTG Hosted Monitor instance?
This article applies as of PRTG 25 Access Rights Management You can configure access for managing some aspects of your PRTG Hosted Monitor instance through the customer portal here. Here you can manage and grant permissions to the invited users...
Mon, 6 Oct, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Migrating PRTG Remote probe
We are in the need to migrate One of our Remote Probes to a Server 2012 R2, we are currently running this remote on Windows 2008 R2. Our Core probe is also running in Windows 2008 R2, we are running version 13. Is this change in the configurati...
Thu, 2 Oct, 2025 at 10:21 AM