Grafana Enterprise Stack vs PRTG Network Monitor comparison

Grafana Labs and Paessler GmbH are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Grafana Labs is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.6, while Paessler GmbH is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Grafana Labs holds a 1.1% mindshare in IM, compared to Paessler GmbH’s 3.9% mindshare. Additionally, 92% of Grafana Labs users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 92% of Paessler GmbH users who would recommend it.

Grafana Enterprise Stack

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 28, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and Grafana Enterprise Stack are two leading solutions in the monitoring and data visualization domain. PRTG Network Monitor appears to have an advantage in affordability and simplicity, while Grafana Enterprise Stack excels in data visualization and integration.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor offers a simple setup with versatile sensor capabilities, comprehensive alerting systems, and affordable pricing. Grafana Enterprise Stack boasts robust data visualization, integration with various data sources, and customizable dashboards for detailed insights.

Room for Improvement: PRTG Network Monitor could benefit from enhancements in mapping features, user interface for multi-device setups, and licensing cost reduction. Grafana Enterprise Stack needs more user-friendly configuration, better integration connectors, and easier complex visualization setups.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG Network Monitor is praised for its ease of use and detailed documentation, despite occasional delays in email support. Grafana Enterprise Stack offers an easy installation process but faces regional support challenges due to limited business hours.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor has a cost-effective pricing model, especially for medium-sized environments, with great ROI from its monitoring capabilities. Grafana Enterprise Stack, using an open-source model, provides a cheaper entry point but requires investments for larger use, offering significant ROI through enhanced data insights.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Grafana Enterprise Stack

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

13th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

112

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (5th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of Grafana Enterprise Stack is 1.1%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 3.9%, down from 4.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
PRTG Network Monitor	3.9%
Grafana Enterprise Stack	1.1%
Other	95.0%

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Rajan M

Test Lead at Calpine Group

Efficient monitoring and alerting enhance operational insights

With Grafana Enterprise Stack, we can identify issues that New Relic cannot help with. While New Relic requires purchase and supports frontend and backend components, Grafana Enterprise Stack helps identify where issues are occurring. When we need to deep dive into issues, we use New Relic to trace transactions and determine where maximum impact occurs, whether in core size, DB side, or frontend components that slow performance. We first evaluate with Grafana Enterprise Stack, then move to New Relic if we identify performance degradation, such as DB queries taking too much time. Grafana Enterprise Stack responds to queries within 6 to 12 hours. They contact users through email immediately when available. Similarly, New Relic follows the same pattern, responding immediately when requests are raised and resolving issues promptly.

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madhan kumar hs

software engineer at Capgemini

Alerting precision has reduced incident response times and improved department-level network visibility

The auto-pause sensor during the maintenance window is good without any false alerts, and it prevents me from getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance, helping department heads understand their own network usage better. It has reduced incident response time by giving clearer ownership of each alert, ensuring alerts go to the proper recipient. SNMP testers and auto-pause are among the best features of PRTG Network Monitor, which is particularly useful for different departments such as HR and finance, where alerts can be filtered accordingly. The alerting features and dashboard of PRTG Network Monitor are very helpful, especially in our industry. However, the dashboard can look cluttered on smaller screens, which is one negative aspect. PRTG Network Monitor has impacted us positively; we have stopped getting flooded with alerts during planned maintenance or unplanned outages. Compared to others, this gives specific alerts very quickly and helps department heads understand their own network usage better, thus reducing incident response time so that each alert has clear ownership.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The most valuable features for us are dashboards; we can dashboard anything that we can think of, we can dashboard and measure."

"Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful open-source platform with robust capabilities in data visualizations, dashboard creations, and alerting."

"Grafana has enough features around dashboard management. It's got enough plugins to create your dashboards."

"It is very easy to deploy and integrate with any application or infrastructure layer."

"Our productivity has improved with its use."

"The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance, from 10 AM to 2 PM, we may experience high memory utilization. It helps us to solve these issues."

"The most valuable feature of Grafana Enterprise Stack is the dashboards."

"The most valuable features of Grafana for data visualization are its ability to create intuitive dashboards and its wide range of visualization options like graphs, charts, and tables."

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"The initial setup is very simple."

"The most valuable aspect is the diverse range of features it offers."

"PRTG Network Monitor has positively impacted our organization by saving us a significant amount of money; during maintenance windows or patching, we used to receive false alerts, but since implementing PRTG, it has saved us thousands of dollars and has become a boon for us by providing convenience and being time and cost-saving."

"The remote probe feature in PRTG Network Monitor helps you monitor remote systems or your network at a lower cost than other solutions."

"It helps the entire organization become digitally enabled."

"From a network point of view, we can see the state of the network, as well as bandwidth usage and downtime."

"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."

"It is great for service level agreements and can comply fully with internet monitoring or any interface."

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Cons

"If Grafana Enterprise Stack could display transaction queries in dashboard format similar to New Relic, it would provide more options and capabilities for users."

"The tool needs to show only fewer updates."

"They could use more small tutorials to explain a bit about how Grafana works."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved."

"The solution should include integration with Power BI."

"The connection between metrics, logs, and traces could be improved. Currently, one needs to ingest labels and timestamps for them to be connected, however, drilling down sometimes takes time."

"I have encountered occasional issues with false inputs or incorrect data in Grafana."

"I find Grafana really hard to configure. It's difficult to build the dashboard, and it's non-intuitive. In my opinion, it's very difficult to work with Grafana."

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"The desktop app is the one area where it do with some improvement. From a user's perspective, I would like to be able to get more out of the desktop app as opposed to where we are now with it."

"Users need to buy the more expensive licenses if they expect to be able to scale."

"The user interface could be more modern as it is quite dated. PRTG Network Monitor can sometimes be too detailed and cluttered at the beginning, making it heavy to use."

"More training videos for installing and configuring this software would have been nice, especially when working with a lot of devices."

"PRTG could use reporting tools and mobile alert tools. It should be easier to diagnose and respond to problems from a mobile device on the go."

"Sometimes the error messages are too vague and don't directly tell me what went wrong."

"PRTG Network Monitor should provide syslog monitoring since it is not available at this time."

"The technical support service should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"I use the tool's free license."

"We are licensed for 2500 endpoints."

"The price is pretty comparable."

"PRTG Network Monitor's price is a little high."

"Pricing for PRTG Network Monitor is a nine out of ten. It meets my company's budget and monitoring requirements. My company is on a perpetual license."

"It's a cost-efficient tool."

"We used a product called SolarWinds in the past, and its cost was high. Whereas, PRTG came in at a third of SolarWind's cost."

"When you have a lot of devices, PRTG Network Monitor can be costly."

"On a yearly basis, I believe it's between £1,200 and £1,500."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Energy/Utilities Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

15%

Manufacturing Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Computer Software Company

10%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	6
Midsize Enterprise	1
Large Enterprise	7

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	59
Midsize Enterprise	19
Large Enterprise	47

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Grafana Enterprise Stack?

The tool's most valuable feature is real-time monitoring. It helps in securing the application or the node by allowing us to monitor and manage resource consumption during peak times. For instance,...

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What needs improvement with Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I am trying to think about its advanced alerting features; we do not use it too much for that. We do get it to report through to our help desk system and if a threshold gets broken, then a ticket i...

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What is your primary use case for Grafana Enterprise Stack?

I have switched to a different suite, focusing on customer edge solutions that are mostly Fortinet. To manage it, I use Grafana Enterprise Stack and a whole bunch of tools that we wrote ourselves. ...

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The pricing was higher at the beginning, but the recurring licensing cost is affordable and reasonable. Overall, the pricing, setup cost, and licensing is fair for our industry. They have quoted us...

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Overview

Grafana Enterprise Stack is a powerful tool for real-time data monitoring and visualization. With its flexible and scalable features, it is widely used for creating dashboards, analyzing metrics, and gaining insights into infrastructure, databases, and applications.

Its valuable features include powerful visualization capabilities, extensive data source integrations, customizable dashboards, a user-friendly interface, and a robust alerting system. Users appreciate its flexibility, scalability, and ability to integrate with different data sources, making it suitable for a wide range of industries and use cases.

Grafana Labs

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.

Paessler GmbH

Sample Customers

1. Uber 2. PayPal 3. eBay 4. Sony 5. Red Hat 6. IBM 7. Cisco 8. Adobe 9. Expedia 10. Booking.com 11. Airbnb 12. LinkedIn 13. Twitter 14. Netflix 15. Spotify 16. Pinterest 17. Slack 18. GitLab 19. Docker 20. Atlassian 21. Salesforce 22. Microsoft 23. Google 24. Amazon 25. Facebook 26. Apple 27. Intel 28. Oracle 29. SAP 30. VMware 31. HP 32. Dell

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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