Shlomi Lavi /
Jan 26, 2023
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Bottom Line: Which is Better - PRTG Network Monitor or PagerDuty?
PagerDuty is more expensive to implement (TCO) than PRTG Network Monitor, and PRTG Network Monitor is rated higher (84/100) than PagerDuty (80/100).
Looking for the right Network Monitoring solution for your business? Buyers are primarily concerned about the real total cost of implementation (TCO), the full list of features, vendor reliability, user reviews, and the pros and cons. In this article we compare between the two software products:
Paessler AG Vs. PagerDuty, Inc.
Paessler AG: Paessler AG’s award winning PRTG Network Monitor is a powerful, affordable and easy-to-use Unified Monitoring solution. It is a highly flexible and generic software for monitoring IT infrastructure, already in use at enterprises and organizations of all sizes and industries. Over 150,000 IT administrators in more than 170 countries rely on PRTG and...
PagerDuty, Inc.: PagerDuty enables developers to build amazing solutions and user experiences by providing full-stack visibility to monitor code deployments, infrastructure events, and application health, making it easy to effectively collaborate with Operations, Security, and QA teams to resolve issues before they impact customers.
Who is more expensive? PRTG Network Monitor or PagerDuty?
The real total cost of ownership (TCO) of Network Monitoring software includes the software license, subscription fees, software training, customizations, hardware (if needed), maintenance and support and other related services. When calculating the TCO, it's important to add all of these ”hidden costs” as well. We prepared a TCO (Total Cost) calculator for PRTG Network Monitor and PagerDuty.
PRTG Network Monitor price starts at $1,799 per license , On a scale between 1 to 10 PRTG Network Monitor is rated 2, which is much lower than the average cost of Network Monitoring software. PagerDuty price starts at $21 per user/month , When comparing PagerDuty to its competitors, the software is rated 2 - much lower than the average Network Monitoring software cost.
Bottom line: PRTG Network Monitor cost is around the same cost of PagerDuty.
Which software includes more/better features?
We've compared PRTG Network Monitor Vs. PagerDuty based on some of the most important and required Network Monitoring features.
PRTG Network Monitor: We are still working to collect the list of features for PRTG Network Monitor.
PagerDuty: We are still working to collect the list of features for PagerDuty.
Target customer size
The typical customers who benefit from using this software are those belonging to small to medium-sized business as well as large enterprises that make use of Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems, hosting and related services, mainly in the field of IT service management. The general categories of the users of PagerDuty are the individuals that are engaging in wide array of small (with 10 to 100 employees) and/or medium-sized (with 100 to 1,000 employees) businesses and even large enterprises that harness the benefits of the services from IT, web and data hosting and other related information services sectors, mainly with data and IT management, performance management and application monitoring.