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By Greg Collins
Announcing Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 Modern networks are more complex and more exposed than ever. From hybrid infrastructure and distributed devices to expiring certificates and tightened security requirements, network and IT teams are under constant pressure to keep everything running smoothly while reducing risk. Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 is built for that reality.
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By Jirka Knapek
If you’re planning to move from ManageEngine OpManager to the Progress WhatsUp Gold solution, this guide outlines key differences, recommended migration steps, and practical checks to help you transition with minimal disruption. It also includes an example script you can use to start monitoring imported devices in the WhatsUp Gold solution.
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By Greg Collins
A Rapidly Evolving Network Landscape Demands the Right Monitoring Strategy Choosing the right network monitoring solution has become a mission‑critical decision for IT teams. In recent years networks have become increasingly hybrid, cloud‑distributed and reliant on remote connectivity. For enterprises with complex infrastructures, network monitoring is an essential tool.
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By Jason Alberino
Mirating from PRTG to WhatsUp Gold can feel daunting, but with the right approach, it’s a smooth transition that unlocks powerful monitoring capabilities and a simplified user experience. WhatsUp Gold offers intuitive dashboards, flexible licensing, and advanced features like Network Traffic Analysis, Application Monitoring, and integrated Network Detection & Response (NDR) for comprehensive visibility across hybrid environments.
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By Greg Collins
You log into your network monitoring dashboard and see the alert: “High bandwidth usage detected.” This is not just a routine message; it’s a sign that something is putting pressure on your network. Bandwidth is the backbone of modern connectivity, and when usage spikes unexpectedly, the consequences can be severe. Applications slow down, cloud costs rise, and in some cases, spikes may point to a security threat.
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By Jason Alberino
Looking for a reliable SolarWinds alternative? If you’ve been comparing SolarWinds and WhatsUp Gold, you’re not alone. Many IT teams are evaluating which network monitoring solution offers better performance, flexibility and cost efficiency. In this guide, we’ll walk you through a step-by-step migration from SolarWinds to WhatsUp Gold, highlighting key differences, benefits and best practices to maintain a smooth transition.
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By Greg Collins
Network administrators are always seeking to gain a deeper understanding of their Windows-based environments. Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) enables their network monitoring tools to access system information, manage configurations and automate tasks. It provides a vital role in network monitoring by providing a standardized interface for querying and controlling system components. A complex set of permissions governs WMI access.
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By Jason Alberino
Network administration has become more complex than ever. IT professionals are tasked with managing sprawling infrastructures, maintaining uptime, optimizing performance and defending against increasingly sophisticated security threats. With hybrid environments, cloud integrations and remote workforces, the pressure to maintain seamless connectivity and security is relentless.
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By Jason Alberino
As IT environments grow more distributed and resilient, the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution is evolving to meet the moment. Starting in early 2026, Progress will officially retire the legacy Failover Manager and usher in a new era of high availability (HA) by design. This modern, scalable approach aligns with today’s best practices in infrastructure.
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By Jeff Edwards
The Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) sure does pack a punch for something with “simple” in its name, as it literally provides the lifeblood of network monitoring and device communications. Network admins rely heavily on SNMP because nearly every technology manufacturer supports the protocol. And, in turn, it enables them to collect information, configure devices and receive alerts about network performance and issues.
WhatsUp Gold version 2026.0 introduces a new Master Secret Key as added security for your database. Watch this video to learn more about this key and the scenarios where you will need to provide it.
Modernize your monitoring stack with the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution in this fast, 30‑minute session. Learn how to replace legacy, multi‑module tools with one unified platform that simplifies operations, boosts visibility and delivers predictable TCO. Discover how NetOps and ITOps teams can reduce complexity and get actionable insights faster by utilizing the WhatsUp Gold capabilities to unify network traffic analysis, logs, configuration and high availability.
Watch this video to learn about the features included in version 2026.0 of WhatsUp Gold. Find more information in the 2026.0 Release notes: For all your Community news, technical content, and access to all things WhatsUp Gold check out our Community Hub. You'll also find our Forum for questions about our platform and sharing with other Community users.
his video This video guides you through the steps to migrate your network monitoring from PRTG to WhatsUp Gold, emphasizing key differences, benefits, and best practices to ensure a smooth transition.
As the speed of cyberattacks accelerates through the use of generative AI, traditional static playbooks are no longer sufficient to maintain organizational resilience. This webinar provides a deep exploration of modern security operations center methodologies that unify detection, investigation, and response into a single, seamless motion. By focusing on practical strategies for reducing alert fatigue and closing visibility gaps at the edge, this session equips decision-makers with the technical criteria to evaluate solutions that offer true forensic clarity.
This video guides you through the steps to migrate your network monitoring from SolarWinds to WhatsUp Gold, emphasizing key differences, benefits, and best practices to ensure a smooth transition.
IT teams today face increasing pressure to resolve issues quickly, - but hybrid environments, rising complexity, and endless alerts often slow everything down. In this expert‑led 30‑minute webinar, you’ll see how combining Progress WhatsUp Gold infrastructure monitoring with deep traffic analysis delivers the visibility needed to diagnose problems faster and significantly reduce time‑to‑resolution.
This webinar focuses on Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment. Downtime is an expensive inconvenience. Yet many IT teams still face monitoring blackouts due to rigid licensing models and outdated failover strategies. In this session, we’ll introduce a smarter approach: High Availability by Design. Whether you're scaling operations or modernizing infrastructure, this session will enable you with the tools and insights to build a resilient, future-ready monitoring strategy.
A clearer path for enterprise administrators with simpler deployment, unified visibility and predictable costs. If SolarWinds feels too complex, costly or rigid to scale, it might be time to look for a new network monitoring solution. In this session, Progress WhatsUp Gold experts help enterprise admins achieve unified visibility and faster time to value without module or architecture sprawl, using transparent device-based licensing.
This video explains how antivirus software can interfere with WhatsUp Gold performance and gives recommended exclusions and settings to ensure both products work together reliably.
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By WhatsUp Gold
With the REST API Monitoring in WhatsUp Gold's Application Performance Monitoring (APM), you can monitor applications by creating components in a custom Application Profile. For example, if you need to monitor PAS for OpenEdge, you can use the integrated Application Profile to query its OEManager and HealthCheck APIs. Our team of engineers has developed a comprehensive technical guide detailing exactly how to set up this kind of functionality in WhatsUp Gold.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Network Monitoring For Dummies helps you recognize best practices for monitoring and managing your organization's network, how to grasp network monitoring fundamentals, define alerts and actions, and much more. In this special edition, you'll learn best practices and key concepts for network monitoring from WhatsUp Gold's Product Expert Mark Towler and author and editor Doug Barney.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) research determined that network infrastructure teams are challenged to monitor infrastructures that include hybrid public and private clouds. Their findings are that teams need to be more strategic in building their network management toolset. Based on this latest research from EMA, this white paper offers a guide to building the ultimate network management toolset.
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By WhatsUp Gold
It's no secret: if you manage a network, every device connected generates a log. These logs tell an extremely important story about events that have happened on your network and are a vital part of helping you easily understand network activities, user actions and more. With WhatsUp Gold's Log Management you can monitor, filter, search, and alert on logs for every device in your network while also watching for meta trends like log volume changes.
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By WhatsUp Gold
Something we've said before is, "You can't protect what you can't see," and it's so true. How can you protect your network if you can't see ALL of it? Enter: Network Discovery. Network Discovery is the fundamental principle of network monitoring and management. At its core, the process of discovery allows you to find and identify everything connected to your network. It allows you to see what's on your network, how to figure out what's connected, and more.
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By WhatsUp Gold
In today's world, monitoring your servers is more important than ever before. With proper monitoring, you can understand system resource usage and identify performance-related issues like utilization, downtime, and response time. As a network or system admin, you know how vital server uptime is. On the reverse, how downtime can be detrimental to your business and your staff's productivity, resulting in loss of sales and, therefore, loss of revenue.
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WhatsUp Gold provides complete visibility into the status and performance of applications, network devices and servers in the cloud or on-premises.
Quickly identify and resolve issues in your hybrid cloud through intuitive workflows, system integrations, and unmatched out-of-the-box functionality.
What Can You Monitor with WhatsUp Gold?
- Application Performance: Easily monitor the performance of Linux systems, Apache web servers and Microsoft applications.
- Bandwidth Consumption: Analyze bandwidth consumption across networks, servers, applications and more.
- Cloud-based Resources: WhatsUp Gold gives you comprehensive visibility and control of AWS and Azure cloud environments.
- Network Performance: WhatsUp Gold helps you find and fix problems before your users are impacted.
- Hyper-V and VMware: Get powerful visibility to physical, Hyper-V and VMware environments.
- Wireless Networks: WhatsUp Gold can visualize and assure the performance of your wireless networks.
Simplify the Management of Your Complex IT Infrastructure.