Fortra's Intermapper vs Opsview comparison

Fortra and ITRS are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Fortra is ranked #81, while ITRS is ranked #48 with an average rating of 8.0. Fortra holds a 0.5% mindshare in NMS, compared to ITRS’s 0.9% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortra users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of ITRS users who would recommend it.

Fortra's Intermapper

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Fortra's Intermapper

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Opsview and Fortra's Intermapper are competing in the network monitoring space. Opsview seems to have the upper hand with its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, while Intermapper is preferred for its ease of deployment and intuitive interface.

Features: Opsview offers extensive monitoring capabilities, customizable dashboards, and advanced automation features. Fortra's Intermapper focuses on real-time network mapping, intuitive drag-and-drop map designs, and immediate insights into network performance.

Room for Improvement: Opsview could improve its deployment complexity, enhance user interface intuitiveness, and offer simpler setup processes. Intermapper can expand its monitoring capabilities, provide more customization options, and increase advanced automation features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Opsview's deployment can be more complex, requiring skilled administrators, but it provides comprehensive support options. Intermapper is designed for quick and straightforward deployment, minimizing setup time and offering standard customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Opsview's initial setup costs can be higher due to its sophisticated infrastructure, yet it promises significant ROI through its deep insights and automation. Fortra's Intermapper typically has lower upfront costs and delivers satisfactory ROI with rapid setup and reduced operational overhead.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortra's Intermapper vs. Opsview Report (Updated: March 2026).

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Categories and Ranking

Fortra's Intermapper

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

81st

Average Rating

8.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Opsview

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

48th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Server Monitoring (20th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (37th), Cloud Monitoring Software (26th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2026, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Fortra's Intermapper is 0.5%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Opsview is 0.9%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Opsview	0.9%
Fortra's Intermapper	0.5%
Other	98.6%

Network Monitoring Software

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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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reviewer1898607

Partner Technical Support & Escalation Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

Real-time dashboards have improved our deployment monitoring and incident response

We are using Opsview ourselves, rather than being a consultant or a reseller. We do not use its auto-discovery feature. We do not utilize its API driven architecture. I do not know what metrics we use to assess the effectiveness of Opsview's hybrid IT monitoring. Overall, I am pretty satisfied with Opsview as it is good for what it does. I do not know if Grafana has any other advantages besides better stats, as I am not involved in that side. Based on my experience, I would still recommend Opsview to others as it is good for what it does. I gave this review a rating of 8.

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Pros

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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 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."

"I like its scalability thanks to slaves, as you can add as many as you want, which also allows you to reach and monitor devices running on the network that are not accessible by the master."

"Overall, I am pretty satisfied with Opsview as it is good for what it does."

"Opsview provides all the functionality of NetSaint and Nagios but with the simplicity of a GUI front end, using MySQL to centralize configuration."

"What was very compelling about OpsView was that we could dial out the noise and have meaningful and actionable alerts."

"The dashboards are the real value add for this product in my opinion and enhance customer experience if done properly."

"Opsview, though not the least expensive Nagios-based commercial monitoring product offers excellent value for performance which rivals expensive commercial products from the major IT vendors; it is well worth the money paid for it."

"Afterwards, they were impressed by how easy monitoring could be, and they no longer had to edit large text files in order to configure hosts and service checks."

"We now have a single view for all systems monitored within our IT estate, while we previously had three different systems (each configured differently)."

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Cons

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"Sometimes Opsview has crashed, but the multiple master/slave solution provides consistent uptime for monitoring."

"I wish they'd update the iOS app, which, I think, is the same version I used back in 2012 or so."

"It can be a little bit flaky with the agent on VMware."

"In a future release, we would like to have Observ for AI. Any AI and intelligence it can add to the monitoring is obviously beneficial. We would also like to have automated callouts."

"It's probably the priciest option of all its main competitors."

"In Opsview 4.6.3, there is no provision for making bulk changes to monitored servers via the GUI, though it is possible to custom-script bulk changes via the API."

"Hard to say, some minor changes could help improve ease of configuring (which have already been requested and are now on the roadmap)."

"Pricing and a few certain aspects in the solution needs to be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The solution is priced similarly to other tools offering similar features."

"I would rate pricing a seven out of ten, where ten is the highest price."

"The solution is not cheap. I think that the pricing is a little bit on the high side."

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Government

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Construction Company

11%

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Computer Software Company

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Construction Company

11%

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What needs improvement with Opsview Monitor?

There is always room for improvement, and part of the reason we're looking at Grafana is because there are things it can do that Opsview cannot do as well. Grafana does have features that I think m...

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Also Known As

HelpSystems Intermapper

Opsview Monitor, Opsview Enterprise

Overview

Fortra's software frees you up to focus on what matters most, aligning IT and business goals to help organizations build a competitive edge. Intermapper is network monitoring software for organizations who want to monitor their IT infrastructure in real time.

With Intermapper, you can visualize all your physical and virtual network components on a live map and get up-to-date performance data on its availability. Powerful and user-friendly, Intermapper helps leading businesses prevent costly outages and maximize uptime for 24/7 availability of network resources.

Features include flexible monitoring for anything with an IP address, free probes to monitor different types of equipment from various vendors, dynamic network mapping, bandwidth monitoring, real-time alerts, and remote access. Our add-on integration with Automate allows you to remediate network failures and conduct network self-healing.

Intermapper runs on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Fortra

Opsview is a modern and scalable SaaS or on-premise monitoring solution that gives your organization full visibility into on-premises and cloud IT infrastructure. It delivers simplified management and a single pane of glass view of your entire IT operations. The solution provides unified insight into dynamic IT operations on premises, in the cloud, or hybrid. Additionally, it can be used either in agent-based or agentless configurations.

You can use Opsview to monitor:

 Operating systems

 Networks

 Cloud

 VMs

 Containers

 Databases

 Applications

Opsview Features

Opsview comes with an array of features, including:

 AutoMonitor express scan: This feature makes it easy for you to keep up with your

changing IT infrastructure by helping you find new Windows, VMware, and Azure hosts.

 Business service monitoring: This enables you to see the health of all your end-to-end

business services in real time and in one place.

 Autodiscovery: With this feature you can automatically discover and profile hosts in your environment, which helps you quickly populate information into Opsview for monitoring.

 Network analyzer: Opsview provides you with a complete picture of your company's

network infrastructure via its Network Topology, Flow Collector, & NetAudit modules.

 Customizable dashboards: Opsview dashboards give you a view of all your monitoring

metrics in interactive dashboards that are easy to create and maintain.

 Customizable reports: With Opsview, reports connect to the Opsview Data Warehouse and present historical data collected by Opsview. The solution’s out-of-the-box reports include performance, SLA, and events.

 Disaster recovery: Opsview gives your organization peace of mind with its disaster

recovery by restoring your Opsview system if needed.

 Event handlers: Opsview event handlers allow for automation and proactive monitoring so that your users are not impacted.

 Events viewer: The events viewer feature helps you easily see all the important events in your Opsview system.

 High availability server: Opsview has a high availability monitor that offers protection to ensure that you never lose IT infrastructure visibility.

 Multitenancy: Multitenancy makes it possible for your MSP to give control of Opsview to your end users. It also allows you to create new hosts and roles as well as users while using a secure, private environment.

 Log analytics: This feature allows you to improve logging visibility, reporting, correlation, and alerting.

 SNMP traps: With SNMP traps, you can reduce your network and server load and provide faster service to your customers.

Opsview Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Opsview. Some of the biggest advantages the

solution offers include:

 Extensible: Opsview can be used in agent-based or agentless configurations. In addition, it can sit above multiple monitoring tools, aggregating information into a single pane of glass.

 Scalable: Opsview is very scalable. It can easily scale beyond 10,000 monitored devices via its distributed model that spreads monitoring across many monitoring engines. Its databases may be located on dedicated servers to further distribute load.

 Functional overview: Opsview monitors your IT infrastructure, network and applications, and displays alerts. It is also designed to generate notifications and integrate with your other service management tools.

 Flexible: Opsview has a flexible web framework, allowing dashboards and monitoring views to be easily customized and extended.

 Integration: Easily integrate Opsview Cloud with your current operational tools, including help desks, service management, automation and notification tools

 Automation: Automate the configuration and operation of your IT monitoring system using Opsview’s intrinsic automation capabilities. Allowing you to spend more time on projects that drive your business.

Opsview Cloud

Opsview Cloud gives your business 24/7 Saas Monitoring for your entire IT estate. Benefits include:

 Reducing your infrastructure costs

 Realigning your resources to focus on business value IT projects

 Ensuring you have 24/7 monitoring

 Utilizing Opsview experts to provide monitoring best practices/tips and tricks

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Sample Customers

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

IBM, BT, Cisco, Sky, UPS, Capgemini, Visolit, Fujitsu Services UK, UKCloud, Massachusetts Insitute of Technology, Cornell University, Incomm

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