We are at it-sa 2026 in Nuremberg from October 27 to 29. Visit us at Hall 7, booth 7-143 to see the future of PRTG, and join our talk on full OT visibility with Siemens.

Earlier this year, more than 1,000 of you across nearly 90 countries sat down and told us, in your own words, what monitoring looks like from where you work. We shared the big picture in our first article on what 1,088 IT teams told us about monitoring in 2026. This one is more personal: here's what you told us hurts, and what we're doing about it.

We just released PRTG version 26.3.124 to the stable release channel, and it brings a full package: several new WMI sensors, two new Redfish sensors, refreshed FTP Server File Count and SNTP sensors, the new AI feature Alarm Insights as an early access preview, and two experimental SIMATIC S7-1200/1500 sensors. On top of that, we updated the German, Spanish, and Dutch language files.

Chances are your Siemens S7-1200 or S7-1500 is already reporting into something. Maybe OPC UA. Maybe MQTT. Both are good at pulling process values out of the controller and into your monitoring stack.

Somewhere on your production floor, there is a Siemens S7-300 or S7-400 running a process that simply cannot go down. A filling line. A pump station. A conveyor feeding the next stage of assembly. And chances are, nobody on the IT side is watching it the way they watch a server.

In May 2026, we asked 1,088 PRTG customers worldwide how they actually use network monitoring: not what they say in a sales call, but what shows up on their dashboards every day. The weighted sample spans organizations of every size, from small IT teams to enterprises with 5,000 or more employees, respondents in nearly 90 countries, and covers everyone from Heads of IT to Network Managers to C level executives who occasionally peek at the graphs.

We have been cooking up some large internal changes for the multi-platform probe. Soon, probe-to-core communication will happen over the modern internet communication protocol QUIC. If you have recently watched a YouTube video or otherwise used HTTP/3, then you will have used QUIC already.

The IT skills shortage is not a future problem. It is already showing up in every helpdesk ticket that waits an extra day and every project that gets pushed back a quarter. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that computer and information technology occupations will grow much faster than average through 2034, with tens of thousands of open roles appearing every year that nobody is lining up to fill. For IT administrators, that gap rarely shows up as a headline. It shows up as one more alert at 2 a.m. that only you can answer, because there is nobody else scheduled to answer it.

We just released PRTG version 26.3.122 to the stable release channel,  and it brings a full package: seven brand new sensors, ten sensors that graduate from BETA, three experimental additions, and a range of security and server improvements

Quick question. When was the last time anyone on the team actually read a monitoring alert, word for word, before dismissing it? Not skimmed. Read.

Take a second with that one. If the honest answer is "can't remember," alert fatigue has already moved in. It doesn't show up with some dramatic outage or a red banner screaming for attention. It's quieter than that, and slower. Hundreds of small, forgettable pings, week after week, and then one random Tuesday someone realizes nobody on the team trusts the alert system anymore. They just click things away. Swipe, dismiss, next.