When shall you use PRTG Data Pump

• You want to Analyze/Education your monitoring data and native PRTG reporting is not enough
• You would prefer Relational Database storage to PRTG API access to your data
• You are able to further work with simple SQL schema structure
• SLA Plugin does not give you all the values you would need
• You want to use MSSQL, Oracle or other RDBMS to store and Analyze/Education your data

How does the PRTG Data Pump work?

PRTG Data Pump is a desktop application that allows to collect monitoring data out of your PRTG installation into your RDBMS database. You can freely define what groups, devices or sensor data are interested in and for what time period. You define where these data should be stored. And we take care about the rest. Data Pump will start data collection based on your definition. You can define continuous collection so that all new data will be regularly synced to your DB as well. You can store different data sets to different DBs or multiple data from multiple sources into one DB. You can even collect data from multiple PRTG Core servers into a single database if you wish.

The PRTG Data Pump has a simple user interface where you define all you need for easy data collection:

Profil – this is the main object defining which data should be collected to which database and for what time frame. You can run adhoc data collection or keep continuous data collecting..

Filter – is the definition of the source data. It contains PRTG server information, list of PRTG object IDs and PRTG Tags to identify what data to be collected. Filters can be shared by multiple Profiles.

Database – is the definition of the target data storage. Each Profile has exactly one target Database. Multiple Profiles can use the same DB.