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How to get monitoring data from REST interfaces
These days, REST APIs are just about everywhere. Everything from gateways and firewalls through to ticket systems and weather sites offer REST APIs that let you query information. This represents an opportunity to bring even more data into your monitoring concept. Think of examples like monitoring weather conditions using APIs of online weather sites, or the number of open tickets in your ticket system. To help you harness the flexibility that REST offers, Paessler PRTG provides you with the REST Custom Sensor V2 as part of its monitoring solution.
PRTG 21.4.72 with AWS Alarm v2 sensor and various fixes & improvements
Compared to the last releases of PRTG Network Monitor, this update does not contain many new sensors, but features several fixes and improvements. It comes with the experimental AWS Alarm v2 sensor and security improvements for SQL v2 sensors.
School District of Pickens County uses PRTG to keep students and teachers productive
Okay, two things are probably clear. We publish outstanding use cases on our blog every now and then – and both PRTG Network Monitor and PRTG Enterprise Monitor are, to varying degrees, made to monitor large IT environments, providing a simple way to gain visibility and control over increasingly complex infrastructures. This is part 3 of a four-part series. Are you proudly old school, don't like this newfangled blogging, and would prefer to have your use case as a proper PDF? Who could blame you? You will find the linked PDF on this use case page. iThe School District of Pickens County (SDPC) is located in the northwestern region of South Carolina. SDPC includes 14 elementary schools, five middle schools, four high schools, and a state-of-the-art career and technology center. There are over 16,000 students enrolled in SDPC schools and over 2,000 employees. SDPC strives to provide a quality 21st century education that prepares all students for success beyond the classroom.
Get alerted about data center outages with Slack
With 12 million active users daily and 156,000 organizations subscribed to the app (in 2021), Slack is one of the most popular and rapidly growing apps to connect teams, unify their systems, and drive their business forward. It is integrated into the Paessler PRTG monitoring notification system, which means, in the case of data center outages, PRTG can trigger notifications and send them directly to the Slack channel(s) you want. This sounds convenient, doesn't it? There are also many other notification types you can try, which we covered in other articles that are listed at the end of this article.
Monitoring Modbus in industrial environments
Modbus. It’s a fieldbus protocol that’s been around longer than many of the engineers and technicians who use it. And yet it isn’t going away. Even in 2021, the two common variants of Modbus – Modbus TCP and Modbus RTU – make up 10% of the industrial network market. This is one of the reasons why we included Modbus functionality in our Paessler PRTG monitoring software. We previously wrote about how you can use Modbus TCP as part of your industrial monitoring with PRTG; since then, we also added Modbus RTU capability to PRTG. But what advantages does monitoring with Modbus bring? We’ll get to that. But first, let’s take a look at examples of how you’d use Modbus in your monitoring concept.
A review for PRTG, $25 for you!
Update October 2021: It’s that time again – there are new VISA cards available. Each worth $25, for every published and accepted review at the Gartner Peer Insights for IT Infrastructure Monitoring Tools. If you would like to write a review, please use the following link: 👉 https://gtnr.io/lceiYDIPE Thanks for your support! ---
Top sensors in PRTG to monitor your Dell, HPE and IBM server hardware
To ensure the smooth operation of a data center, your first priority is to avoid errors and problems with the server hardware. In the age of virtualization, it is crucial to keep an eye on the hypervisors and to eliminate incipient problems before they lead to malfunctions or even failures - regardless of which manufacturer your server hardware is made by.
Monitor your server hardware (system health) with the Redfish protocol
If you monitor your server hardware in your data center with PRTG, you are probably familiar with the System Health Sensor for hardware like Dell, HP, Lenovo, etc., which allows you to monitor the status of the CPU fan, the battery, and also overall system status, among other things. Each sensor includes numerous channels that let you keep a detailed eye on your hardware. But did you know that PRTG also lets you monitor the system health of your server hardware via the Redfish protocol?
How Paessler reduces electronic waste and is closing the loop
The concept of Closing the Loop in itself is very simple. For every workplace device a customer buys, a corresponding amount of electronic waste is recycled – with a clear focus on Africa, where electronic waste is a ubiquitous problem. In the pre-Corona year of 2019 alone, the world accumulated 53.6 million tons of e-waste. That's an almost indescribably large number. And the annual amount of electronic waste will continue to increase, as also stated by the Global E-Waste Monitor 2020. Those that suffer the most from this development are developing countries. When we found out about Closing the Loop, it was clear to us that we wanted to be a part of it. After all, if you read our blog regularly, you know that we are committed to the reduction of resource consumption.
Senhub: a new generation of connectors to enrich PRTG
Did you feel that moment of wondering when you were told that your new applications would be hosted in the cloud? I did. At what point did you really feel ready to manage them?
How to get the most out of Syslog monitoring with PRTG and Fastvue
Syslog – One log to rule them all. Calling all Sysadmins - I hope you have December 3rd marked down in your diaries this year? On that day, one of the most vital, but undervalued utilities in the admin’s toolkit turns 18. The first draft of the Syslog protocol was published by the IETF on that date, in 2003.
PRTG 21.3.71 with new IoT, AWS and Redfish sensors
Our latest version of Paessler PRTG Network Monitor is now available in the stable release channel.
Monitor your Beckhoff IPC with PRTG
Industrial PCs have many uses within industrial Operational Technology (OT), such as controlling processes and machines, data acquisition, or acting as front-ends for control computers in distributed processing environments. And when it comes to key players in the PC-based automation market, Beckhoff Automation is considered one of the pioneers. In fact, their IPCs can be found in many industrial environments. Because of their crucial role in industrial architecture, it’s important to monitor them to make sure they are performing as they should be. Here’s how to monitor Beckhoff IPCs using Paessler PRTG, monitoring software that brings IT and OT into one view.
Working at Paessler during the pandemic: Our coworkers describe their "new normal"
Compared to other countries, Germany has always been very attached to the "culture of presence". Now, however, the pandemic has proven to skeptics that things can be done differently and has dispelled many concerns. What was the privilege of a minority among Germany's workforce before the pandemic has become a mass phenomenon in these times of seemingly endless corona lockdowns. Office workplaces have been relocated to the office at home. The door to modern working has been pushed wide open! The proportion of employees in Germany who work predominantly from home offices recently rose from 5% to 25%. This means that home offices are unlikely to become a rarity, even after the pandemic. Here at Paessler, too, the majority of employees work remotely.
Cooling an overheated server room...with fans: A true sysadmin story
How do you cool a server room when the AC unit isn’t working? Well, what about good old ventilation fans? While this might not sound like a workable solution, it’s exactly the idea our colleague Michael had when he faced an overheated server room in a previous job.
