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  1. As a PRTG administrator managing dynamic IT/OT infrastructure, I want PRTG sensors to automatically adapt to device configuration changes (such as volume label modifications or disk capacity expansions) by using persistent hardware identifiers, so that I can maintain continuous monitoring without sensor failures, avoid losing historical data, and reduce manual maintenance overhead when routine infrastructure changes occur.

    When certain device-side properties change — such as a drive’s volume label or storage size — PRTG sensors (e.g., Disk Free Sensor) often fail, even though the hardware itself remains the same. For example: If the volume label of a hard drive changes,…

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  2. As a network engineer managing devices from ISPs and vendors with restricted SNMP configurations, I want PRTG to support SNMPv3 authNoPriv mode (authentication without encryption) so that I can monitor critical infrastructure devices that only allow this security level.

    Currently, PRTG only supports SNMPv3 with authPriv (authentication + encryption). Many providers, e.g. Telekom, only offer SNMPv3 in authNoPriv mode.

    Example configuration (as provided by Telekom, not changeable):
    Mode: authNoPriv
    Authentication Protocol: MD5
    Privacy (Encryption): None

    Since PRTG does not support authNoPriv, monitoring such devices is currently impossible.

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  3. As a Network Engineer, I want the RADIUS v2 sensor to support RFC 3579 Message-Authenticator validation so that I can monitor RADIUS servers with enhanced security and ensure authentication packet integrity in my network infrastructure. The client (PRTG Sensor) computes the hash (HMAC-MD5) from its own packet and then adds the attribute as a signature to the request. This is required for secure implementations of RADIUS.

    https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/security-vpn/remote-authentication-dial-user-service-radius/118673-technote-radius-00.html

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    Hi there,


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  4. As a System Administrator responsible for security compliance, I want to see how long Windows updates of different criticality levels have been available so that I can prioritize patching efforts based on both severity and exposure duration, ensuring compliance requirements are met and security risks are minimized.

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    Hi there,


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  5. As a PRTG user I want to monitor if my DNS server is delivering any addresses or the correct addresses depending on an internal or external request. DNS servers use TSIG keys to identify the type of request and answer it should deliver. If PRTG would support TSIG keys the answer of the server could be checked from one probe. The current workaround would be to create a probe for every context view the DNS server needs to be aware of.

    https://paessler.freshdesk.com/a/tickets/2792487

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    Hi there,


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  6. As a system administrator using PRTG,
    I want to configure a file content sensor using simple date placeholders or regex patterns to automatically find the correct log file each day,
    so that monitoring dynamic log files becomes straightforward and less time-consuming.

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  7. As user I want to use the WMI Service sensor with an account which has only read access as long as I use the option "Do not start/restart the service (default)".

    Because the WMI Service sensor has an option to restart the service in case it is not running, the user account for this sensor must be a write user. For optimal security I might want to use read-only accounts for monitoring. This would render the WMI restart option nonfunctional but allow me to not provide PRTG write access just to monitor the running status of a Windows service.

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    Hi there,


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  8. As a Storage Administrator
    I want PRTG to support monitoring of the new NetApp ONTAP-based systems ASA r2 and AFX
    So that I can ensure full visibility and performance tracking of these devices within our existing monitoring environment.

    Context & Details
    NetApp recently introduced two new ONTAP-based platforms:

    ASA r2: All-Flash SAN Array optimized for block storage.
    AFX: High-performance NAS/S3 system designed for AI/ML workloads.

    Both systems leverage the ONTAP REST API but include specific changes and new endpoints:

    ASA r2 introduces endpoints like /api/storage/storage-units and /api/storage/block-volumes for LUNs and NVMe namespaces, and recommends OAuth 2.0 for authentication.

    AFX removes…

    2 votes

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  9. As a Network Engineer, I want PRTG's SNMP Traffic sensor to include additional channels that track maximum bandwidth values (In/Out) over configurable time periods, so that I can accurately assess true network capacity utilization for effective capacity planning and infrastructure decision-making.

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    Hi there,


    Great news! Your idea has been approved and moved to the next stage on Paessler.


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  10. As a Network Engineer, I want to monitor Certificate Transparency logs for my organization's domains so that I can detect unauthorized certificate issuance and maintain visibility over our certificate ecosystem in an era of automated certificate management.

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    Hi there,


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  11. As an IT Infrastructure Manager migrating from VMware to XCP-ng, I want native PRTG sensors for XCP-ng hosts and XOA management so that I can maintain comprehensive virtualization monitoring without losing visibility or requiring custom development work during and after migration.

    2 votes

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    I have a couple of additional questions to make this more solid as we collect votes on this request :


    1. Which specific XCP-ng metrics are most critical for your monitoring needs?
    2. Do you need XOA-specific monitoring (backup jobs, user sessions) or primarily hypervisor metrics?


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  12. As an IT Infrastructure Manager or Systems Engineer, I want a pre-configured PRTG template for monitoring Sangfor hyperconverged infrastructure so that I can achieve comprehensive visibility into my virtualized environment without having to manually configure individual sensors or write custom scripts.

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  13. As an advanced user, I would like to use a framework in the form of a sensor API. This could be a Python library that allows me to use PRTG's internal SNMP stack with connection establishment, authentication, querying, etc., while also giving me the ability to build advanced SNMP sensors. This allows different OID trees to be combined in the code, which is not possible with SNMP custom sensors. This framework is intended to abstract the complexity of pure SNMP communication and allow developers to focus on logic and data processing.

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  14. As an IT Network Administrator, I want the Microsoft 365 Mailbox sensor to display mailbox size in MB/GB and usage percentage against quota limits so that I can proactively alert on approaching capacity limits and prevent shared mailbox outages that disrupt business operations.

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  15. Leverage PRTG Data Hub to efficiently manage Windows Event Logs by collecting, filtering, and forwarding critical log data.

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    Hi there,


    Great news! Your idea has been reviewed and is now officially on our roadmap! This means we've committed to developing it in the future.


    While we don't have an exact release date yet, we're planning to implement this feature/improvement as part of our upcoming development cycles. We're excited about the value this will bring to our users.


    We appreciate your patience as we work to bring this to fruition. We'll let you know once it moves into active development.


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  16. As a PRTG user, I need to filter emails monitored by the IMAP sensor in minute intervals (e.g., "last 5 minutes" instead of "last 1 hour"). This will allow me to achieve greater granularity and detect critical, time-sensitive email notifications (like system alerts or transaction confirmations) much faster.

    Caveat: Implementing minute-level filtering will likely increase the load and resource consumption on the PRTG probe and core server due to more frequent and potentially more intensive checks.

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  17. As a database administrator I want to monitor my SQL servers that are part of a cluster avoiding false positives due to cluster failover or health. If a failover happens PRTG and the SQL sensors should be aware of it so that I can get the right notification and not be overwhelmed by notifications

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  18. As a PRTG admin setting up sensors using Sensor Factory we have the need to dynamically update sensors using the API to add tagging to aggregate upstream traffic across links so that I can have the right data for monitoring and reporting purposes due to constant changes in our network.

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  19. As an Infrastructure Administrator managing a mixed IT environment with Multi-Platform Probes, I want the SNMP Custom Table sensor functionality on my Linux-based probes, so that I can efficiently create sensors from SNMP table data

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    Great news! Your idea has been reviewed and is now officially on our roadmap! This means we've committed to developing it in the future.


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  20. As a Systems Engineer, I want HTTP Data Advanced sensors to support placeholders in URL, POST body, and custom headers fields, so that I can centrally manage sensitive credentials and API configurations while maintaining security best practices and reducing sensor configuration complexity.

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