PRTG for Android

Paessler AG

About this app

PRTG for Android brings the power of the PRTG Network Monitor interface to your Android 4.0+ devices. It requires a PRTG 14.1 or higher installation. If you encounter any bugs, please send them to [e-mail], as we're not notified of new comments.


Features include:

• Full visibility into the state of your probes, groups, devices, sensors, and channels on multiple PRTG instances.
• Pause, acknowledge alarms, trigger scans, run device auto-discovery, etc. You can do a lot of things with the app that you can over the web interface or the Enterprise Console, with an interface tailored to your mobile device.
• QR code scanning makes it easy to jump directly to a sensor.
• Enhanced notifications can (optionally) alert you in your device's status bar when PRTG finds problems on your network.
• Home screen widgets (available only on 4.1 or higher, sorry!) allow you to keep an eye on your network without the app running in the foreground.
• Network tools such as ping, traceroute, and DNS lookups are included. We'll be adding more in the future!

To use this app, you need to run an installation of PRTG Network Monitor 14.1 or later that is accessible from the network your device is connected to. If you don't have a PRTG Network Monitor installed, you can still try a demo account, and the network tools are completely independent and don't require any PRTG server to operate.

Running an older version of Android or an older PRTG release? You can still use our previous release, PRTGdroid: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.paessler.prtg

Required Permissions:

• INTERNET - Rather critical :-)
• CAMERA - Required for the QR scanner.
• WAKE_LOCK - Necessary for the alert functionality. Don't worry, we put a lot of effort into keeping our battery and network use as low as possible.
• Notifications can optionally VIBRATE your phone.
• We use ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE and ACCESS_WIFI_STATE to check if the internet is available, and to determine whether or not we should load large graphs (we don't load them when you're on a mobile data network).
• WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE is needed to cache certain data.
• RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED lets us set notifications back up after a reboot.

If you have any problems or suggestions, we're happy to hear them. Just send us an email at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

Surprisingly, there is no way to update a sensors notification methods using this mobile app. PRTG wouldnt even need a mobile app, if they simply made their web application mobile-friendly to begin with. Unfortunately from my Android Chrome web browser, the PRTG web UI functionality usually has lot of issues trying to get it to work properly on my phone's web browser, even in desktop view...its hit or miss. I had hoped this PRTG app would bring most functionality into my phone. Nope; such a pain

Excellent product, been using for years! Through many versions it has improved significantly and is an invaluable tool if set up correctly, couldnt not do without it. Some feedback on current app however: -Widgets are now too big -Acknowledge alert indefinitely now throws an error about time and adjusts it to 1 minute, defeats the purpose of indefinite ack -widgets complaining about app power settings/sleep when this is not the case

I'm a huge fan of PRTG and a bit surprised that the mobile app doesn't have support for SSO as this is a trending method of secure authentication. We have adapted SSO using Azure in our environment, and it only allows either SSO to be used OR AD. We opted SSO and now we can no longer use any method to log in via mobile. Hopefully, this will be addressed at some point? Being able to view and monitor after hours from your phone would be a game changer! Brian