WhatsUp Gold
Progress® WhatsUp® Gold is a unified network monitoring platform: it discovers everything on your network, maps how it connects, watches its health and performance, analyses the traffic crossing it, and tells you the moment something breaks — on-premises, in AWS and Azure, or both.
EDP Communications supplies, licenses and supports WhatsUp Gold in South Africa, alongside our Vutlan, Room Alert and GSM Commander ranges. Where those products tell you what the environment is doing — temperature, power, flood, generators — WhatsUp Gold tells you what the network and the servers are doing. Most of our customers end up running both, and WhatsUp Gold reads Vutlan and Room Alert hardware over SNMP, so environmental and IT alarms land on the same dashboard.
The trial and Free Edition are downloaded directly from Progress at whatsupgold.com. Talk to us when you are ready to license it — we quote, invoice and support locally in rand.
Start free — WhatsUp Gold Free Edition
WhatsUp Gold Free Edition monitors up to 10 devices at no cost and with no obligation. It is not a time-limited trial — it is the real product, capped at 10 devices. You can discover your whole network and choose which 10 devices to monitor, and when you outgrow it you upgrade in-app to a paid edition without reinstalling.
What is included
- Device and server monitoring
- Performance monitoring
- Custom dashboards and reporting
- Certificate monitoring
- Automatic discovery
- Availability monitoring
- Wireless network monitoring
- Topology mapping
- Alerts and notifications
- Cloud and storage monitoring
What is not included
No technical support (built-in help, documentation and the Progress Community only), no more than 10 monitored devices, and no add-on modules such as Log Management or Configuration Management. Those come with a paid edition — talk to us about it.
What it does
Automated discovery
Layer 2/3 discovery finds what is actually on the network — including the devices nobody documented — over ICMP, SNMP, WMI and SSH.
Network mapping
Interactive, customisable maps showing device dependencies, so you see what a failure will take down with it.
Performance monitoring
CPU, memory, disk, interface and latency trending for servers, switches, routers, firewalls and wireless controllers.
Alerting and escalation
Real-time alerts by email, SMS, Slack and log, with escalation chains and dependency-aware suppression to kill alert storms.
Traffic analysis
NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, IPFIX and NetStream — see which conversations, applications and users are consuming the link.
Application monitoring
Monitor business-critical applications and their underlying components as a single profile, not as unrelated servers.
Configuration management
Back up, audit and restore device configurations, and get alerted the moment a config changes.
Log management
Collect, alert on and archive syslog and Windows event logs for troubleshooting and compliance.
Cloud and virtualisation
AWS and Azure resources alongside VMware and Hyper-V hosts, guests and clusters, in the same dashboards.
Wireless monitoring
Controllers, access points and clients, including per-AP load and rogue detection.
Certificate monitoring
New in 2026.0 — discover SSL certificates on any port, with dashboards for expired and expiring certificates.
Network detection & response
AI-driven anomaly detection, encrypted traffic analysis, threat hunting and full packet capture for evidence.
See it
Editions and licensing
WhatsUp Gold is licensed by the number of monitored devices, and is sold either as a subscription (continuous updates, security fixes and support for as long as you subscribe) or as a perpetual licence (a one-time purchase including one year of updates and support). Two product families are available and can be licensed independently.
Infrastructure, performance and traffic monitoring — subscription
| Edition | What you get |
|---|---|
| Business | Single installation · 10/5 email support · up to 25,000 devices per instance. The starting point for a single site or a single NOC. |
| Enterprise | Up to 2 installations · 24/5 phone and email support · advanced reporting and monitoring. |
| Enterprise Plus | Up to 4 installations · 24/5 phone and email support · advanced reporting, plus online training, health checks and upgrade guidance. |
| Enterprise Scale | Customisable number of installations · 24/5 support. For large, demanding estates. |
Infrastructure, performance and traffic monitoring — perpetual
| Edition | What you get |
|---|---|
| Premium | 10/5 email support · up to 20,000 devices per instance. One-time licence with a year of updates and support. |
| Total Plus | 24/5 phone and email support · up to 20,000 devices per instance. The fullest perpetual bundle. |
Network Detection and Response (NDR) — subscription
Licensed separately, by connected devices. AI-driven threat detection across hybrid-cloud networks, with investigation and automated response.
| Edition | What you get |
|---|---|
| Business | Up to 1,500 connected devices · 2 TB storage · one network segment · 200+ detection algorithms. |
| Enterprise | Up to 3,000 connected devices · 3 TB storage · up to 2 segments · packet-level forensics. |
| Enterprise Plus | Up to 5,000 connected devices · 6 TB storage · up to 4 segments · AI-powered threat intelligence feed. |
| Enterprise Scale | Beyond 5,000 devices, scaling to 100,000+. |
Add-ons and related options
Network Detection & Response Lite
Behavioural threat detection and anomaly monitoring bolted onto an infrastructure monitoring subscription, for security visibility without the full NDR platform.
Distributed Edition
Monitor many remote sites from one central NOC, with local collection at each site. Built for multisite networks — see the data sheet below.
Service agreements and extended support
Progress support tiers, plus extended support to keep an older release covered. Data sheets below.
Pricing: Progress publishes US-dollar list pricing on whatsupgold.com/pricing. We quote in rand, against your actual device count and the edition that fits — so please ask us for a quote rather than converting the list price. Device counts, add-ons and subscription vs perpetual all move the number.
Data sheets and downloads
The current Progress data sheets, hosted here so they always download. All are PDFs.
Editions
Technical specifications
Capabilities and add-ons
Support, services and training
Data sheets are published by Progress Software and describe the product as Progress supplies it. Support and licensing terms are set by Progress; EDP Communications is your local supply, quoting and first-line support contact.
More from Progress
Free trial
whatsupgold.com/trial — the full product, all features.
Free Edition
whatsupgold.com/free-edition — 10 devices, permanently free.
System requirements
whatsupgold.com/system-requirements — check before you install.
Interactive demo
Try the interface without installing anything.
Documentation
docs.progress.com — full product documentation.
What’s new in 2026.0
Certificate visibility, Hirschmann support and stronger credential protection.
Talk to EDP Communications
We will size the licence against your device count, quote in rand, and help you get it installed and discovering.
Tel: +27 12 346 2781
WhatsApp: +27 82 288 4701
Email: info@edp.co.za
Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa