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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    PRTG

    Score8.9 out of 10
    N/APRTG Network Monitor is the flagship offering from German software company Paessler, for monitoring local and wide area networks (LANs & WANs), servers, websites, apps, and more.

    $2,149

    per year

    Selector Analytics

    Score7 out of 10
    N/ASelector employs machine learning and NLP-driven, self-serve analytics to provide access to actionable insights. Selector Analytics uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to conduct three essential functions and provide actionable insights to network, cloud, and application operators. Collect: Selector Analytics collects any data (including configurations, alerts, metrics, events, and logs), from various heterogeneous data sources. For example, Selector Analytics may…N/A
    Pricing
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Editions & Modules
    PRTG 500
    $2,149
    per year
    Hosted 500
    $2,149
    per year
    PRTG 1,000
    $3,899
    per year
    Hosted 1000
    $3,899
    per year
    PRTG 2,500
    $8,099
    per year
    Hosted 2500
    $8,099
    per year
    PRTG 5,000
    $14,199
    per year
    Hosted 5000
    $14,199
    per year
    PRTG 10000
    $17,899
    per year
    PRTG Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    subscription license
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Considered Both Products
    Paessler
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    Selector
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    98%
    Would buy again
    39 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
    38 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    40 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    93%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    26 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    36 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of PRTG Network Monitor and Selector Analytics
    Feature
    PRTG Network Monitor
    8.3
    64 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Selector Analytics
    -
    Ratings
    Automated network device discovery8.357 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network monitoring9.763 Ratings00 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation8.154 Ratings00 Ratings
    Alerts9.264 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network capacity planning7.445 Ratings00 Ratings
    Packet capture analysis7.133 Ratings00 Ratings
    Network mapping8.045 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable reports7.954 Ratings00 Ratings
    Wireless infrastructure monitoring8.246 Ratings00 Ratings
    Hardware health monitoring9.161 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (64 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    9.0
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    9.3
    (4 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    PRTGSelector Analytics
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Paessler
    integrates seamlessly with Windows servers via WMI and PowerShell, providing deep insights into resource usage, performance metrics, and system health. It's excellent at tracking CPU, memory, disk space, and event logs, enabling rapid troubleshooting and proactive maintenance. PRTG Network Monitor also effectively monitors Fortigate devices, providing detailed data on firewall health, traffic patterns, bandwidth utilization, VPN status, and security alerts. This visibility helps detect and resolve network security issues promptly.
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    Selector
    Selector Analytics has proven very useful for our SRE and DevOps teams. It addresses our concern of being able to monitor network health and gives good analytics for our needs. It also helps with problem identification quickly so that we can resolve any potential issues. Getting an idea of network health allows us to identify potential problems beforehand, and we can take measures to fix them.
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    Pros
    Paessler
    • Switch monitoring and finding out if there are communication issues or throughput alerts are reached
    • Big picture view of the whole infrastructure and what is functioning and what is not
    • Uptime tracking is great and lets us know for how long a device is down or overall uptime
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    Selector
    • Network Health Monitoring.
    • Realtime Actionable Insights.
    • Identifying ways to fix problems.
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    Cons
    Paessler
    • Licensing on a per entity basis can be cumbersome for devices which have a ton of monitoring points like network switches\routers. Each sensor may count against a license, which could be a lot of you were monitoring every TX\RX of an SFP for example
    • A better method to easily template\copy monitors across devices
    • The navigation in the web GUI could be a little more straightforward in terms of the hierarchy
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    Selector
    • Dashboard Customizations would be good to have.
    • Integration with tools such as Slack.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Paessler
    I would renew it because the platform has brought us many technical and economic benefits that make the cost-benefit ratio very good. Additionally, to do so does not require large investments in training, licensing or infrastructure, and at the administration level, extensive knowledge is not required to be able to bear it.
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    Selector
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Paessler
    The tool is very intuitive to use and it is Windows-based (everybody knows how to use Windows) so it's easy to get into. Every time is setup in a hierarchy so if you have a good initial hierarchy design, it will really reduce administrative effort down the road.
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    Selector
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Paessler
    PRTG does everything we need it to do and more. Ease of use, ease of management and maintenance and clarity of monitoring of hundreds of different types of device and service gives this a large advantage over other products on the market that I have tried. I would definitely recommend it to anyone who needs a network monitoring product in their environment and even to people who don't know they need a solution yet!
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    Selector
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation Rating
    Paessler
    It's very important that de project's teams have different member of the TI. We have learned too late the importa of Security Analyst at the design architecture moment. We have to rebuild part of the implementation for made this big mistake.
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    Selector
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    Alternatives Considered
    Paessler
    PRTG offers more versatility in monitoring when compared to the other solutions we tested. The other solutions were also limited as far as customization options, which made them less adaptable to our networks. When compared to Auvik, for instance, we prefer PRTG as it offers immediate notifications through the desktop client - not limited to email notifications as with Auvik. We also appreciate the fact that PRTG can be self/on-prem hosted vs Auvik's cloud model. This makes for an easier deployment and less firewall adjustments to allow traffic to cloud-hosted solutions.
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    Selector
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    Return on Investment
    Paessler
    • The ability to analyze multiple pieces of information in one place, especially with historical data, has saved our IT department time and headaches. It would be so much more difficult to trace an issue without PRTG, just relying on event logs and an open task manager window.
    • The cost is not cheap, so it's an expense that hits the bottom line like everything else. Figure in hardware costs as well, ideally a server outside of your main environment.
    • I keep saying this, but the historical data piece is worth so much. There's really no good way to collect all of that information in one place without something like PRTG. And that definitely saves time and money in the long run.
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    Selector
    • Helped us identify problems faster.
    • Insights to identify ways to prevent future problems.
    • Helps us resolve problems faster.
    • Reduced our server costs - as we know when to scale up and when to scale down.
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