Fortra's Intermapper vs Kaseya Traverse vs Nagios XI comparison

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Fortra and Kaseya are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Fortra is ranked #80, while Kaseya is ranked #78. Fortra holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to Kaseya’s 0.6% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 83% of Kaseya users who would recommend it.

Fortra's Intermapper

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100% willing to recommend

Kaseya Traverse

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83% willing to recommend

Nagios XI

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11,333 Comparison Views

83% willing to recommend

Fortra's Intermapper

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Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Fortra's Intermapper is 0.5%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Kaseya Traverse is 0.6%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Nagios XI is 2.5%, down from 3.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Nagios XI	2.5%
Kaseya Traverse	0.6%
Fortra's Intermapper	0.5%
Other	96.4%

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Featured Reviews

Andrian Lubimov

SVP of Networking and Operations at Skywire Networks

It tremendously cuts down our troubleshooting timeframe, but needs advanced SLA monitoring and reporting

They can do a better job with SLA reporting. It does some basic reporting, but it really doesn't offer the ability to monitor devices by groups, customers, or carrier to give an overall health performance of specifically-defined environments. That's where HelpSystems Intermapper could have done a better job. I would love to see advanced SLA monitoring and reporting in this solution. They already have a lot of ingredients. They already have SNMP polling. It is really about what people are looking for from SLA monitoring, especially someone who looks at the network topology. You want to see your endpoints. You want to see half of your endpoints by simply analyzing ICMP or SNMP-based availability of your endpoints. Having an ability to define your group and how you bring devices into your group would be a huge benefit.

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AMMAR HUMAIDY HUSIN

Technical Consultant at a university with 11-50 employees

Automation increases efficiency, but pricing needs to be more competitive

Improvement is needed in making it cheaper, of course. I am not emphasizing making it cheaper, however, it should be more competitive with other products. The product itself is very good and helpful for me as a customer. The issue always is the price, as we cannot beat most of our competitors on pricing alone. If a product is just nice to have, not essential like an antivirus, if it's not really competitive with pricing, we cannot sell it.

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Emmanuel Appiah Boateng

Network and Security Engineer at a educational organization with 1,001-5,000 employees

Simplifies setup and requires user interface enhancement

Nagios XI is easy to install, which sets it apart from other open-source solutions I've tried. Typically, setting up a monitoring system on Linux involves cloning files from GitHub, building it, and installing many dependencies, but with Nagios XI, it wasn't like that. Nagios XI simplifies our setup and reduces the time spent configuring monitoring tools.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What is really cool about HelpSystems InterMapper is that because of its SNMP base, you can integrate all different makes and models on the same map. You, of course, can have more than one map, but you have an option to have visibility into the entire network from one centralized system. You can monitor IPs, routers, radios, DC power plants, and UPS. You can do it all from one network management and monitoring solution. That's what really makes HelpSystems Intermapper great. Another great thing about HelpSystems InterMapper is that you can really bundle different probes under one device. You can have a bundled device. You can monitor the physical status of a host based on the IP availability. You can also monitor services and actually see if anything happens. You can quickly determine whether it is the application layer, host layer, or network layer. HelpSystems Intermapper gives such a unique representation of a network. Ever since we started using HelpSystems InterMapper, we don't have to document everything in a detailed format and store it somewhere. Right now, it is really a combination of network topology, network monitoring, and network analyzing. So, in my opinion, it is awesome. When you have your SNMP topology defined, you don't require a dedicated NMS engineer to manage your system, which is another great thing about HelpSystems InterMapper. I see how our operators get so excited by having the ability to map a device or interface and connect interfaces together. HelpSystems InterMapper is also very operator friendly; not just user friendly, but also operator friendly. This is a unique feature, and it works really great."

"It's all today portal-based which is a good feature for us."

"It's a nice graphical interface, a nice map, that relates Layer 1 to Layer 3, virtually instantly, to the Helpdesk support staff. It provides a default place to get critical information so we can deploy our staff."

"The most valuable features are its: log history, real-time monitoring capabilities, accuracy - the number of false positives is very low, and the mapping features."

"Put Intermapper in as your base to start from, hands-down."

"The graphical alerting with the ability to obtain a quick overview of a monitored device is my favorite feature."

"The solution has a couple of features which are really interesting; it's not a fancy or expensive solution but we wanted to have a cost effective one and it's doing its job pretty well."

"Right now, it is really a combination of network topology, network monitoring, and network analyzing, so, in my opinion, it is awesome."

"Automating processes is crucial for me, so the automation part stands out."

"If I want to automate the management and maintenance of my server automatically, this product is a good use case for that."

"Everything is running seamlessly on the solution, to the point where you don't see any gap."

"It's a simple and humble tool."

"It is a pretty stable solution...It is a pretty stable solution."

"The remote support and data collection features are great."

"Kaseya Traverse is a very stable solution and very sustainable in terms of what the market wants, what is out there, price-wise and functionality features. They're quite competitive and they are always innovating."

"Most of the features are pretty good and the solution is user friendly."

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"Nagios is the best software of its kind if you have time for configure any host and network, and you can do quite everything with a bit of scripting."

"In my experience with Nagios, I've found that the most valuable features are the scalability and extensibility through using scripts."

"It's very easy to install it and manage it with Nagios XI's interface."

"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."

"Nagios XI simplifies our setup and reduces the time spent configuring monitoring tools."

"The ROI is very good."

"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails, and it also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."

"The product allows comprehensive monitoring of your environment, from basic monitoring of your servers health to more complex tasks like AD, database, and, to some extent, application-level monitoring."

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Cons

"It's a smaller solution so tools are not as advanced as you would find in a larger solution"

"I have seen instances where Intermapper does not seem to recover from network changes."

"They can do a better job with SLA reporting. It does some basic reporting, but it really doesn't offer the ability to monitor devices by groups, customers, or carrier to give an overall health performance of specifically-defined environments. That's where HelpSystems Intermapper could have done a better job. I would love to see advanced SLA monitoring and reporting in this solution. They already have a lot of ingredients. They already have SNMP polling. It is really about what people are looking for from SLA monitoring, especially someone who looks at the network topology. You want to see your endpoints. You want to see half of your endpoints by simply analyzing ICMP or SNMP-based availability of your endpoints. Having an ability to define your group and how you bring devices into your group would be a huge benefit."

"I'd love to see more of the network management side of it coming back into it. If we were able to run scripts to bounce ports on switches, that would be great. It's asking a lot, but it's actually very doable because I do it through scripting into other products. If we could incorporate that directly into Intermapper, that would be fantastic."

"I'd love to see more of the network management side of it coming back into it."

"With my most recent experiences on the solution, I can say that it isn't currently stable; there are a lot of glitches and bugs and the reliability just isn't there right now."

"Improvement is needed in making it cheaper."

"Dashboards and Central Protection were an issue. Also, database monitoring was not there. Even though they said that it was there at an additional cost, that tool was very basic. We couldn't have device configuration backup also."

"Kaseya Traverse can improve by adding a Service Map to help us create a configuration management database (CMDB), this would be helpful for us."

"Reporting is a bit difficult."

"Reporting is tedious and not organized in the way customers expect."

"In terms of what could be improved, we are innovating all the time, as well as having a look at different avenues so that the strategy follows the structure. I think the software is still a little bit too new to actually fully asses what it has."

"The support for the solution needs some improvement. In my experience, the response time to answer a query is slow."

More Kaseya Traverse cons

"We're still experiencing stability issues with regards to collecting performance graphs."

"There are stability issues if you have a large number of hosts and services."

"Nagios provides most of the features by default, however to add more services to it, it requires additional plugins which require little effort on administrative end."

"The installation can get very difficult depending on what Linux flavour you are using."

"Nagios XI doesn't provide scripting. For example, if we have built up multiple IPX tunnels from a base location to a data center location and want to monitor or trigger an alert if the tunnel goes down, Nagios XI does not automatically send alerts notifying us that the tunnel is down."

"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."

"The interface could be more user-friendly."

"While the UI is functional, I have always thought there was room for improvement here."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price depends on whether you are monitoring different applications, especially in bulk, and depends on what you're doing. If you're monitoring one endpoint, it will cost you 150 ZAR."

"The solution is not cheap, but it is not too expensive."

"This solution is very expensive, at approximately $5,000 USD when I purchased it, which is why I haven't upgraded my version in several years."

"The pricing is really cost efficient. The licensing is perpetual and can be renewed very easily."

"Nagios XI is an expensive solution."

"For the cost of the commercial product and support, and taking into account the open source characteristics of it, I believe it is difficult to a better value."

"It is good to contact experts for advice about what is the best solution for your specific infrastructure and enterprise."

"Nagios XI is open source."

"You can grow into the higher-priced scale as they learn how to utilize the features for Nagios XI."

"As it is not an agentless tool, I think it is expensive."

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it_user174738

IT Developer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

May 31, 2015

Nagios vs. Zabbix vs. PRTG vs. Spiceworks vs. Solarwinds Network Performance Monitor

I have researched a quite a few network monitoring tools which can be used for various monitoring purposes of not only the servers, but the intermediate routers as well. There are majorly three types of these softwares. Ones which are completely open-source, you can do almost anything you want…

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Outsourcing Company

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Construction Company

10%

Government

10%

Outsourcing Company

18%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Government

Construction Company

Comms Service Provider

10%

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Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

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Small Business	1
Large Enterprise	7

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Small Business	22
Midsize Enterprise	17
Large Enterprise	21

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What needs improvement with Kaseya Traverse?

Improvement is needed in making it cheaper, of course. I am not emphasizing making it cheaper, however, it should be ...

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What is your primary use case for Kaseya Traverse?

If I want to automate the management and maintenance of my server automatically, this product is a good use case for ...

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What advice do you have for others considering Kaseya Traverse?

I'd rate the solution seven out of ten. As Kaseya sellers, we always promote Kaseya first. If the price is more compe...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios XI?

The pricing for the Nagios XI product is good and better than other solutions. I would give it a four or five.

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What needs improvement with Nagios XI?

The user interface needs improvement. Many tools have poor user interfaces, making them hard to manage and navigate.

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What is your primary use case for Nagios XI?

I normally use Nagios XI for our servers. It's not particularly used for network equipment, however, I use it for mon...

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 9% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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Compared 2% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 4% of the time

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Compared 3% of the time

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HelpSystems Intermapper

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Overview

Fortra's Intermapper offers real-time network mapping and monitoring, ideal for IT teams seeking a reliable visualization and alerting tool to maintain uptime and connectivity.

Ideal for IT environments, Fortra's Intermapper provides dynamic and intuitive network mapping capabilities. Known for its ability to display an up-to-date graphical view of IT infrastructure, this solution enables proactive monitoring through instant alerts and performance insights. It helps IT teams swiftly address potential issues, ensuring consistent connectivity and performance.

What are the key features of Fortra's Intermapper?

Real-Time Network Mapping: Displays live network status for immediate infrastructure insight.
Customizable Alerts: Allows personalized notifications for targeted problem-solving.
Performance Monitoring: Tracks metrics to preemptively identify potential disruptions.
Cross-Platform Compatibility: Supports different operating systems for wider usability.
Historical Data Maintenance: Retains past network data for trend analysis and reporting.

Which benefits or ROI can users expect from Fortra's Intermapper?

Improved Network Visibility: Enhances understanding of network status and layout.
Faster Issue Resolution: Real-time alerts and monitoring minimize downtime.
Cost Efficiency: By reducing outages, operational costs decrease significantly.
Enhanced User Experience: Stable networks boost overall end-user satisfaction.

In industries such as healthcare, finance, and education, Fortra's Intermapper is a vital tool for maintaining high network performance and reliability. It plays a crucial role in environments where uptime is critical, ensuring that network issues are resolved swiftly to support essential operations.

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Kaseya Traverse offers sustainable functionality for comprehensive network, server, and application monitoring. It supports full IT stack visibility with strong processing capabilities and an intuitive interface.

Designed for businesses needing robust remote monitoring, Kaseya Traverse handles networks, servers, and applications with ease. It ensures comprehensive management with features like automated workflows, effective troubleshooting, remote support, and detailed inventory reporting. Despite user concerns about development speed in reporting and support, absence of a CMDB, and integration issues, it remains a popular choice for managed service providers. Utilized primarily for remote maintenance, patch updates, and antivirus management, it connects customer endpoints to manage infrastructure efficiently.

What are the key features of Kaseya Traverse?

Comprehensive Monitoring: Supports network, server, and application oversight.
Robust Processing: Manages multiple devices and infrastructures seamlessly.
Automation Workflows: Simplifies management tasks and improves efficiency.
Remote Support: Offers effective tools for troubleshooting and assistance.
User-Friendly Interface: Ensures easy navigation and accessibility.

What benefits should users expect from Kaseya Traverse?

Increased Efficiency: Automation and remote capabilities streamline processes.
Enhanced Visibility: Provides a complete view of IT infrastructure.
Improved Troubleshooting: Quick identification and resolution of issues.
Cost Management: Despite pricing concerns, it supports competitive offerings.

Managed service providers leverage Kaseya Traverse for monitoring data centers and cloud environments across industries. It's particularly effective in networking, storage, and server management for enterprises, offering configuration assistance and link monitoring to optimize operations.

Kaseya

Nagios XI offers powerful monitoring with customizable scripts and extensive plugin support, making it ideal for those overseeing IT services and infrastructure. It features an intuitive dashboard, real-time alerts, and comprehensive device support, ensuring flexible and scalable network monitoring.

Nagios XI stands out due to its robust monitoring capabilities, emphasizing flexibility and vast plugin support for custom scripts and service monitoring. Users value its intuitive dashboard for real-time alerts and device compatibility, which simplifies installation and enhances scalability and network visualization. Its open-source foundation assures performance and stability, while a setup wizard aids initial configuration. Despite its strengths, Nagios XI could benefit from a more user-friendly interface, enhanced installation processes, better network map customization, improved cloud integration, and alerting capabilities. Users often face hurdles with its scalability, configuration management, and reporting flexibility, and enterprise clients desire improved dashboards, clustering support, and AI integration.

What are some key features of Nagios XI?

Monitoring Capabilities: Offers comprehensive monitoring for networks, servers, and IT services.
Plugin Support: Supports a wide range of plugins, enabling custom script creation for diverse monitoring needs.
Intuitive Dashboard: Provides real-time alerts and a user-friendly display.
Scalability: Supports growth with robust scalability and network visualization capabilities.
Open-Source Performance: Benefits from an open-source framework, ensuring performance and stability.

What are the potential benefits and ROI?

Comprehensive Monitoring: Enables thorough oversight of IT services and infrastructure.
Customizability: Allows for tailored solutions via plugins and scripts.
Real-Time Alerts: Provides immediate notification of system issues.
Ease of Installation: Simplified processes through the setup wizard.
Scalable Solutions: Adapts to growing organizational needs, enhancing long-term use and support.

Nagios XI is widely used in monitoring network servers, infrastructure environments, and IT services. Organizations rely on Nagios XI for comprehensive monitoring of hardware, memory storage, CPUs, databases, services, and applications. It's frequently implemented to manage multiple servers, routers, switches, modems, and power supplies, and integrates with virtual and cloud servers. By supporting custom scripts and data collection, it allows for effective alerts and notifications for network and equipment statuses across various sectors.

Nagios

Sample Customers

Greater Media Detroit, University of British Columbia, Don's Farm Supply

UltiSat, Clear Concepts, nVidia, United States Postal Service, Cisco, Redbox, Spark Digital, People's Bank & Trust

Nagios has over one million users globally, including AOL, DHL, McAfee, MCI, MTV, Yahoo!, Universal, Toshiba, Sony, Siemens, and JPMorgan Chase.

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