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  1. As a Systems Technician, I want PRTG native AWS sensors to support current European regions so that we can meet standard data sovereignty requirements and maintain verified monitoring architecture without custom workarounds.

    Under the framework of the EU GDPR, Swiss DPA, and regional national laws, many organizations and enterprise clients must guarantee strict data sovereignty. This requires that both critical workloads and their associated monitoring infrastructure remain within specific national borders to satisfy formal audits.

    Currently, several native PRTG AWS v2 sensors cannot be deployed in these territories because the regions are missing from the built-in selection menu. The sensors…

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  2. As an Enterprise Network Administrator managing Multicast infrastructure I want a dedicated Multicast Monitoring sensor in PRTG so that I can monitor the multicast performance & matric such as groups , source, bandwidth, top groups etc. without needing separate monitoring tools or complex custom scripts.

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  3. As a Systems Engineer, I want the Windows Updates Status sensor to detect and report all installed Windows updates — regardless of whether they were deployed via Windows Update Agent, WSUS, SCCM/MECM, manual installation, or any other software distribution method — so that I can have a single, reliable view of the patch status of my Windows systems and ensure compliance without needing to cross-reference multiple tools. The current Windows Update sensor only tracks updates installed by the Windows Update Agent. Updates installed manually or via software distribution are not tracked. The sensor should be expanded to track all installed…

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    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. Here is why: design principle of PRTG sensors is one sensor = one service/technology. To cover updates installed via WSUS, SCCM/MECM, manual installation, and other distribution methods, the sensor would need to use multiple different monitoring technologies simultaneously. This would also introduce significant challenges around long-term maintainability and reliability - each deployment method has its own behavior, update cadence, and potential failure modes that would all need to be handled within a single sensor.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape…

  4. As an Network Engineer, I want uptime and downtime values to be calculated based on the selected time period (both in web interface tabs like "30 days" and API calls), so that I can get accurate availability metrics for specific reporting periods instead of misleading lifetime values that include the entire sensor history since creation.

    Currently, PRTG calculates uptime/downtime values from sensor creation time regardless of the requested time period, which creates misleading availability statistics when users need period-specific reports.

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  5. I understand that it is still technically possible to monitor Windows-based workstations and servers using SNMP—provided one is willing to invest the necessary time and effort to keep it running.
    I would, however, like to give you a clear heads-up.
    As described in this article: https://helpdesk.paessler.com/en/support/solutions/articles/76000067671-snmp-going-away, the SNMP feature is no longer available by default when upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 11 or when performing a clean installation of Windows 11. This means your customers are required to spend increasing amounts of time maintaining a function that Microsoft has officially deprecated.
    Realistically, most customers would prefer to invest…

    2 votes

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    Declined  ·  Jonah Kowall responded

    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. This decision was made based on several factors, which may include:

    • It doesn't align with our current product roadmap or strategic priorities.
    • The resources required for implementation outweigh the current projected benefits for our user base.
    • There are technical limitations that prevent us from moving forward.
    • A similar feature is already available or planned in a different way.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  6. 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.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

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    The Paessler Product Team

  7. As a Systems Engineer managing critical infrastructure, I want sensors to automatically switch to a higher sampling rate (down sampling interval) when a predefined threshold is exceeded, and revert to normal interval once the condition clears. This feature could be optionally combined with the existing "Unusual Detection" capability for intelligent, context-aware monitoring.

    Currently, PRTG sensors operate at a fixed scanning interval regardless of the monitored value's state. This means that during critical events (threshold breaches, performance degradation, outages), we capture data at the same granularity as during normal operations—missing valuable diagnostic information precisely when we need it most.

    Proposed behavior:

    1 vote

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    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. This decision was made based on several factors, which may include:

    • It doesn't align with our current product roadmap or strategic priorities.
    • The resources required for implementation outweigh the current projected benefits for our user base.
    • There are technical limitations that prevent us from moving forward.
    • A similar feature is already available or planned in a different way.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  8. As a PRTG admin deploying multiple sensors we must make manual adjustments after auto discovery we would like to use a template to apply defaults similar to device templates so that we could reduce the manual effort the team does today.

    7 votes

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    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. This decision was made based on several factors, which may include:

    • It doesn't align with our current product roadmap or strategic priorities.
    • The resources required for implementation outweigh the current projected benefits for our user base.
    • There are technical limitations that prevent us from moving forward.
    • A similar feature is already available or planned in a different way.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  9. As a Systems Engineer managing SNMPv3-enabled network devices with context-based access control, I want the Python Script Advanced Sensor to receive the SNMPv3 Context Name parameter so that my custom monitoring scripts can properly authenticate with and query devices that require specific SNMP contexts. Currently, all SNMPv3 parameters are passed into a Python Script Advanced Sensor, except "Context Name".

    1 vote

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    Hello Michael,

    Thank you for your feature request.

    Unfortunately, we won't be able to implement this feature as we discontinued the Python Script Advanced sensor with PRTG 25.x.110. To ensure further monitoring, please use the successor Script v2 sensor instead. For more information, please have a look at the following pages:

    Why should I use the Script v2 sensor? | Paessler Knowledge Base

    How can I make my Python scripts work with the Script v2 sensor? | Paessler Knowledge Base

    After reviewing the Script v2 sensor, if you still need this functionality, please feel free to submit a new feature request.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  10. Expand PRTG sensors for primary storage platforms.

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    4 votes

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    Declined  ·  Jonah Kowall responded

    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. This decision was made based on several factors, which may include:

    • It doesn't align with our current product roadmap or strategic priorities.
    • The resources required for implementation outweigh the current projected benefits for our user base.
    • There are technical limitations that prevent us from moving forward.
    • A similar feature is already available or planned in a different way.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  11. As an IT Infrastructure Manager, I want OneDrive service status monitoring included in the Microsoft 365 Service Status Advanced sensor so that I can have comprehensive visibility into all critical Microsoft 365 services (including file storage/sharing) from a single monitoring point and proactively identify OneDrive outages that impact user productivity.

    1 vote

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    Declined  ·  Benjamin Hackenberg responded

    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. We already had a Microsoft OneDrive sensor, which was deprecated due to the low usage. The Microsoft 365 Service Status Advanced Sensor is currently having limitations regarding the service channels. If we rework this feature, we will consider adding a channel for OneDrive in the future.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  12. As a PRTG user I would like to use the O365 sensor to be able to detect when I get an email with specific text in the subject or body so that I can monitor other processes for errors which are sending emails to report errors. Also, there's currently no option "If No Email Matches the Above Filters" for the MS365 Mailbox sensor as in the IMAP sensor.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

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    The Paessler Product Team

  13. 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.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team


  14. As a syadmin who is a current Prometheus user I would like to get metrics from Prometheus exporters so that I can have my metrics in PRTG along with my other infrastructure data.

    Ideally I could also scrape these from other Prometheus compatible endpoints such as the OpenTelemetry collector.

    5 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team


  15. 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

    4 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

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    The Paessler Product Team

  16. As user, I have a lot of alarms which I am aware of. When I restart PRTG, I get flooded with notification emails, stuffing my already full inbox and being an annoyance instead of being helpful.

    I am aware that such option comes with the risk that a new alert might be overlooked. But this is a risk I as a user would take in order to work efficiently with PRTG.

    4 votes

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    Declined  ·  Jonah Kowall responded

    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    After careful consideration by our team, we've decided to decline this idea at this time. This decision was made based on several factors, which may include:

    • It doesn't align with our current product roadmap or strategic priorities.
    • The resources required for implementation outweigh the current projected benefits for our user base.
    • There are technical limitations that prevent us from moving forward.
    • A similar feature is already available or planned in a different way.

    While this particular idea won't be moving forward, please don't be discouraged! Your input is incredibly valuable, and we encourage you to continue sharing your thoughts and ideas with us.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  17. 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.

    4 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

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    The Paessler Product Team


  18. As a Systems Engineer managing NetApp storage infrastructure, I want a dedicated sensor to monitor FlexCache volumes so that I can track their performance, capacity, and cache efficiency, ensuring complete visibility across my storage environment.
    Currently, they are not supported, and PRTG identifies them as normal volumes, so it gives the error "400 (bad request)".

    1 vote

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    Hi there,

    Thank you again for submitting your idea to Paessler. We truly appreciate you taking the time to share your feedback.

    Based on your recent communication with our Technical Support team, we understand that your immediate need for NetApp FlexCache Volume monitoring has been resolved. We're therefore closing this feature request for now.

    However, if you need this functionality in the future, please don't hesitate to reach out with more details. In the meantime, you might also consider using our custom REST API sensor as an alternative solution.

    Thanks for your understanding and for helping us shape the future of Paessler.

    Best regards,

    The Paessler Product Team

  19. As a system admin I would like to monitor the IPsec tunnels of my Palo Alto firewalls with a PRTG native sensor to get a better overview of the status.

    1 vote

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  20. 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

    3 votes

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    Thanks for this suggestion and for everyone's input here. We regularly review open ideas to keep our backlog focused on what will benefit the most users. Since this one hasn't gathered enough support over time to justify prioritizing it, we're closing it for now. This doesn't mean it's off the table forever - if priorities or demand change, we're always open to revisiting. In the meantime, please keep the ideas coming!

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