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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

    TeleMate

    Score8.4 out of 10
    Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
    TeleMate is a platform that enables users to see their entire UC&C environment in a single dashboard so they can proactively monitor, troubleshoot and analyze. TeleMate has provided vendor-agnostic full-stack UC&C visibility and monitoring for 35 years. They company states they have worked with multiple industries, vendors, and business environments to help customers overcome unique communication observability challenges.N/A
    Pricing
    PRTGTeleMate
    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
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    PRTGTeleMate
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details
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    Community Pulse
    PRTGTeleMate
    Considered Both Products
    Paessler
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    TeleMate, LLC.
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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
    PRTGTeleMate
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of PRTG Network Monitor and TeleMate
    Feature
    PRTG Network Monitor
    8.3
    64 Ratings
    1% above category average
    TeleMate
    -
    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
    PRTGTeleMate
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.2
    (64 ratings)
    8.3
    (3 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
    PRTGTeleMate
    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.
    Incentivized
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    TeleMate, LLC.
    We have been using TeleMate Predictive UC Analytics to help us troubleshooting issues with devices as it picks up not just CDR but other events that occur in the CUCM devices. They are currently making headway in capturing data from our Expressway Servers as we have several users working from home. This is an area in which not many tools out there to provide information we need as the expressways are a bit complex especially when being used in MRA. However, TeleMate Predictive UC Analytics is on track to be one of the first ones to get there. There is still a lot that Telemate has to offer however we are still in the process of getting all that set up on our side
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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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    TeleMate, LLC.
    • Assurance provides excellent live data and in a very easy to read format.
    • A great multi-report catalog that can be easily setup/scheduled.
    • A very in depth SIP call ladder analysis for VoIP engineers.
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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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    TeleMate, LLC.
    • More descriptions of the filters and how they are used.
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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.
    Incentivized
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    TeleMate, LLC.
    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.
    Incentivized
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    TeleMate, LLC.
    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!
    Incentivized
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    TeleMate, LLC.
    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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    TeleMate, LLC.
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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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    TeleMate, LLC.
    We evaluated several other systems and went with TeleMate Predictive UC Analytics as they had a broader range of tools. We started looking for a CDR product and found that they provided those needs and had much more
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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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    TeleMate, LLC.
    • Information collected is used to justify staffing needs
    • When used along with other technology, such as logging recorder, TeleMate Predictive UC Analytics helps determine accurately what happened with a caller
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    ScreenShots

    TeleMate Screenshots

    Screenshot of a dashboard displaying real-time analytics. As a universal platform Predictive UC Analytics provides real-time and historical visibility in on-premise and cloud communication services.Screenshot of the dashboard where TeleMate provides cradle-to-grave visibility speeding time to resolution.Screenshot of the engineering level detail available with TeleMate.Screenshot of an example of TeleMate's flexible display options.Screenshot of SNMP Monitoring, including SNMP monitoring of all systems, devices, traffic and applications in the enterprise IT infrastructure.Screenshot of Event Logs. TeleMate collects and correlates Event Management Syslog streams quickly identifying internal system issues effecting communication activity.