Distributed Monitoring: How to Keep Control When Your Infrastructure is Everywhere

This article highlights the limitations of traditional, centralized monitoring in today’s increasingly distributed IT environments – spanning cloud, remote offices, and IoT devices. It explains how a distributed monitoring architecture, utilizing local “probes,” solves these issues by collecting data at the source, ensuring accurate monitoring even with network disruptions and reducing bandwidth strain. PRTG offers solutions like Remote Probes (for Windows) and Multi-Platform Probes (for Linux/ARM) to enable this distributed approach, providing local visibility with centralized control.