Differentiate the Sensor Down State from Error State
As a Systems Engineer, I want PRTG to distinguish between Down status (when monitored services fail operational thresholds) and Error status (when sensors cannot capture data due to communication/protocol issues) so that I can configure separate notifications to alert operations teams about actual service failures while directing data acquisition problems to monitoring administrators.

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