PRTG Network Monitor and Instana Infrastructure Monitoring compete in the network monitoring solutions category. PRTG Network Monitor offers a competitive edge in pricing and support, while Instana Infrastructure Monitoring is favored for its advanced features despite the higher cost.
Features: PRTG Network Monitor provides extensive sensors for network traffic analysis, alerting, and reporting. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring includes automatic application discovery, real-time alerts, and AI-driven insights, suited for complex infrastructures.
Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor is known for straightforward setup and robust customer support. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring requires more initial configuration, yet offers strong customer service for dynamic environments.
Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor has lower setup cost and better ROI for small to medium environments. Instana Infrastructure Monitoring, with a higher initial investment, offers quick adaptation to changing conditions, adding value for large-scale operations.
Instana ensures that your application delivery organization has the data, visibility and information they need to manage the performance of critical business applications across the DevOps lifecycle. Built to handle the dynamic nature of containerized, microservice architectures, Instana automates infrastructure and application monitoring helping you to ensure the performance and quality of custom applications and accelerate your CI/CD cycle.
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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