Grafana Enterprise Stack vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

Grafana Labs and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.5, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.9. Grafana Labs holds a 1.2% mindshare in IM, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 4.1% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 21, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and Grafana Enterprise Stack compete in the network monitoring and data visualization category. Grafana appears to have the upper hand due to its strong data visualization and customization features, which are crucial for in-depth analytical insights.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor enables rapid deployment and offers robust monitoring capabilities, making it user-friendly with a reliable alerting system. It supports various infrastructures with scalability and ease of access through web and mobile apps. Grafana Enterprise Stack provides comprehensive data visualization with dynamic dashboards and real-time monitoring, allowing for extensive customization. It integrates with multiple data sources, enhancing its utility for detailed and specific insights.

Room for Improvement: PRTG Network Monitor could improve its affordability, graphical interfaces, and application monitoring templates. It could also benefit from more seamless dashboard customization and cloud integration. Grafana Enterprise Stack would gain from a more intuitive configuration, better data governance, and the integration of AI for automated actions and alerting. Enhanced documentation and more advanced visualization features could also enhance the user experience.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG offers straightforward setup and comprehensive knowledge resources, though there can be delays in support due to time zone differences. It supports on-premises, hybrid, and public cloud environments. Grafana, noted for ease of use in visual configurations, benefits from community-driven support forums but could use more proactive vendor support during deployments. It supports both on-premises and hybrid cloud solutions.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor is often seen as cost-effective due to its bundled services, though high initial costs may be a barrier for smaller businesses. It offers flexible licensing, contributing to positive ROI through enhanced efficiency. Grafana's model includes open-source and enterprise options, providing scalable solutions that lead to cost savings. Its pricing considers data volume and integrates with multiple data sources, making it financially efficient with rapid ROI, especially in leveraging its visualization capabilities.

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

5th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (10th)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.2%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 4.1%, down from 4.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PRTG Network Monitor	4.1%
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.2%
Other	94.7%

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Gregory Diana

Managing Director at Exponential Energy (Pty) Ltd

Offers very good charting capabilities and capable of automatically generating dashboards, even for a large number of data points

In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party. It's like Node-RED. Node-RED is free, and you can choose an application, but that application depends on the person who's supporting it. If they decide not to support it, then you're stuck. However, I believe that it can't be improved or changed because people have to make money and make a living from it. Nothing will ever be changed. It depends on the software. Same as Windward. Windward just decided it could not support a large number of customers, so it focused on high-income, low-volume clients. Whereas Node-RED has millions of followers and fantastic support, the same as Grafana. Grafana is partly free, but it's your problem. That's how all these companies work. If you're big and you pay a lot of money, they'll pay attention to you.

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madhan kumar hs

software engineer at Capgemini

Alerting precision has reduced incident response times and improved department-level network visibility

The auto-pause sensor during the maintenance window is good without any false alerts, and it prevents me from getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance, helping department heads understand their own network usage better. It has reduced incident response time by giving clearer ownership of each alert, ensuring alerts go to the proper recipient. SNMP testers and auto-pause are among the best features of PRTG Network Monitor, which is particularly useful for different departments such as HR and finance, where alerts can be filtered accordingly. The alerting features and dashboard of PRTG Network Monitor are very helpful, especially in our industry. However, the dashboard can look cluttered on smaller screens, which is one negative aspect. PRTG Network Monitor has impacted us positively; we have stopped getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance or unplanned outages. Compared to others, this gives specific alerts very quickly and helps department heads understand their own network usage better, thus reducing incident response time so that each alert has clear ownership.

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Pros

"The most valuable features of Grafana for data visualization are its ability to create intuitive dashboards and its wide range of visualization options like graphs, charts, and tables."

"It is truly reliable."

"Grafana's full observability stack, known as LGTM, is highly valuable."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"Compared to other packages, Grafana Enterprise Stack is user-friendly and easy to configure quickly."

"The ability to graph actual, live, or on-the-fly activity is valuable; it is an added value to work with Grafana Enterprise Stack and to display results or logs, which are huge in nature, in graphical characters."

"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."

"Grafana's most valuable feature is its ability to provide a graphical representation of data collected from various sources."

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"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."

"The feature I like is that it can easily do a lot of mapping."

"Its proactiveness is its most valuable feature. We already know when we come in, in the morning, if a server or site is down, as opposed to someone telling us."

"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard interface. It's very clean, it's very simple to use."

"The alerting is the most valuable feature. I also like the iPhone app. I get alerts in an email on the iPhone app."

"It is nice to have one place where all the information is right there in front of us."

"The scalability is good. You can improve a remote host or the clustering. This gives it the flexibility to monitor another infrastructure remotely."

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Cons

"The solution should include integration with Power BI."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"In terms of what Grafana provides, it just provides the charting tools. Everything else is third-party."

"Integrating AI capabilities for automated self-healing and reduced manual interventions would be valuable."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."

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"I would like to see Office 365 monitoring. Essentially, it doesn't do it. I assumed not at all, but apparently it does it slightly. However, due to issues with APIs, they currently don't provide full monitoring for O365."

"PRTG Network Monitor needs to show bandwidth utilization in proper graphs. It isn't easy to learn."

"This solution is a good product so far, but I haven't been using it long enough to know how it could be improved."

"The icons on PRTG's network diagram are hard to find. For example, finding the icons for firewalls and servers is difficult, so we're struggling to create the network topology."

"I wouldn't mind better categories for the sensors. When I go to add a new sensor for a new device, there are some categories in there already, and they can be filtered out, but there's quite a large pool of sensors... When I want to go in and find something quite specific, I have got to scroll down and scroll down to find what I'm actually looking for,"

"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."

"I would like to have a VM version that can be installed on a cloud such as Azure. We're using Azure, and we're eliminating on-premise servers. It would be helpful to have a PRTG version that can be installed on the Azure cloud."

"Improvements in data storage flexibility, such as allowing customers to specify data retention periods, would enhance PRTG."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"While I am not the person who deals with pricing, I would say that we pay around 1000 pounds a year."

"We bought a license for 4000 sensors."

"I rate the licensing for PRTG Network Monitor an eight out of ten."

"There is a license to use PRTG Network Monitor and it is annually."

"Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is a nine out of ten. It meets my company's budget and monitoring requirements. My company is on a perpetual license."

"Our licensing costs are 10,000 euros over three years."

"Cost was a factor when selecting this solution, but it just did everything we wanted it to do."

"The price of PRTG is reasonable. PRTG's competitors like SolarWinds and ManageEngine charge more for the same functionality."

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IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

11%

Computer Software Company

10%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	18
Large Enterprise	45

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

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What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The layout is good, but I think it needs some enhancement based on my experience. I might not have gotten deeper to understand more details, but I believe it needs more improvement. Scalability and...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have been working for several months with Icinga, but after that, I moved forward to Zabbix, and now I might switch to Grafana Enterprise Stack. I am trying many alternatives to provide monitorin...

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing for PRTG Network Monitor is that it is reasonable.

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

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PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

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Sample Customers

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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