How is PRTG licensed?
PRTG Licensing Explained
PRTG is licensed by the number of sensors. In general, most devices might have 5-10 sensors. For network switches, you’ll probably want one sensor per switch port. Each sensor may have multiple channels, those additional channels on an individual sensor do not incrementally increase the sensor count. Examples of a sensor might include:
- A ping test
- Testing http/https URL(s)
- A DNS query test
- CPU load on a server
- Traffic usage on a network switch port
- There are over 200 predefined sensor types to choose from