What Does Intermapper Network Monitoring Software Do?
Map and monitor your entire distributed IT environment with powerful, user-friendly software
Map Your Network
Intermapper's network monitoring software helps you create a network map, giving you a live view of your network. Color-coded statuses indicate what's up and down. Various map layout options and icon choices bring your IT environment to life.
Maximize Uptime
When there's trouble, Intermapper sends you real-time alerts via text, email, sound, and more. You'll find and fix technology issues before users or customers are impacted.
Troubleshoot Issues Faster
Spot problems across your distributed environment in seconds (not hours). You and your IT team will save time, reduce frustration, and keep customers and users happy.
Features of Intermapper Network Monitoring Software
Automatic network mapping

Automatically discover and document every IP-enabled device in your network within minutes with Intermapper's network mapping software. Customize your map's look with hundreds of icons and background options. Create hierarchical maps and sub-maps to show specific network areas, such as a floor of a building, classroom, or closet.
Users can export maps to Microsoft Visio and .SVG format for further analysis and documentation.
Proactive network monitoring

Intermapper monitors all your devices, interfaces, servers, and applications 24/7 by using SNMP and other protocols to continuously poll their status. As your network map updates in real time, color-coded icons provide an at-a-glance view for easy network performance monitoring. Proactive alerts are triggered when performance thresholds are surpassed.
Robust network management

Analyze reports, manage condition acknowledgements, and update alert settings for optimal network health. With Intermapper's network management tools, IT professionals can manage the network from an intuitive interface and quickly access data to address issues and make decisions. Manage your network from any platform with network monitoring tools for Windows, Linux, and macOS.
Smart alerting

Never miss a critical network event. Smart alerts notify your team when performance thresholds are exceeded. Choose from various alert options, including sounds, emails, and texts. Customize the schedule, assign alerts to specific teams, and set up escalation to ensure a timely response.
Network capacity planning

As your network grows, Intermapper's network capacity planning tool helps you analyze trends and maintain a healthy network now and in the future. Review historic metrics, strip charts, and reports to maximize capacity planning efforts so your network infrastructure supports traffic levels of any size. Intermapper provides 64-bit support, delivering the scalability and memory required to monitor your entire growing network. With expanded memory capacity, you can oversee more nodes and devices from a single dashboard, including specialized or previously unsupported devices.
AWS monitoring

Intermapper's network monitoring solution can connect to AWS, allowing you to extract performance monitoring data from that platform and import it into the network monitoring program. Just add your EC2 instances to Intermapper to track key performance metrics.
Discover network devices and conduct efficiency monitoring
Intermapper’s automatic device discovery feature keeps your network inventory up-to-date and ensures no devices are unaccounted for. It also lightens the load on IT by eliminating the repetitive tasks of manually accounting for and mapping all existing and new devices.
Once your network inventory is established, Intermapper's network performance monitoring solution runs continuously across all of your devices, providing insights into performance metrics for autonomous access points, wireless controllers, clients, and more. With Intermapper’s real-time, high-speed alerting and polling, you can be instantly aware of any network issues or performance concerns occurring within your network.
Tailored metrics and features for enhanced analysis and monitoring
Intermapper’s network monitoring program provides robust default settings and extensive customization to meet your team’s needs. Monitor and analyze the metrics that matter most to your network. Configure Intermapper’s smart alerting feature to deploy notifications based on thresholds.
Intermapper’s customizable probes let you monitor anything on your network, including environmental sensors, facilities systems, and industrial equipment. For advanced analysis, use Intermapper’s web-based reports module to view vital network health information and personalize your network maps and reporting features.
Added security with reverse proxy/SSO integrations
Intermapper can be modified for a more secure customer experience. First, customers can add Intermapper to their load balancing solution. The load balancer acts as a reverse proxy and creates separation between Intermapper and customers’ networks so end users or potential attackers cannot access the solution’s data or disrupt its service.
To enhance this reverse proxy’s effectiveness, Intermapper can require multifactor authentication, ensuring the users accessing Intermapper are exactly who they say they are. Intermapper can also integrate with various SSO solutions so that MFA and other security measures don’t impact productivity. Overall, Intermapper is a highly adaptable solution that can conform to the need for enhanced security within an organization.

Recognized as a High Performer on G2 for Network Monitoring
Intermapper ranks highly in network monitoring for features, ease of use, and support. Read the reviews.
Add-on Capabilities of Intermapper's Network Monitoring Service

Get Visibility Into Network Traffic
Troubleshoot bandwidth issues with Intermapper Flows. This network traffic monitoring tool collects and analyzes NetFlow, sFlow, and jFlow data in real time.
Intermapper helps you easily pinpoint bandwidth hogs, identify trends, and plan for future network capacity needs.
Monitor Your Network from Anywhere
Working from home? Intermapper Remote Access gives you secure access to the Intermapper server from anywhere. Create maps, acknowledge alarms, and view reports from a remote machine.
Remote network monitoring software helps your team monitor network equipment effectively regardless of your (or your devices') location. It's especially helpful for IT consultants, organizations with multiple offices, or managed service providers.


Fix Issues Fast with a Network Monitoring and Automation Solution
Free yourself from manual network remediation. A network monitoring and automation tool can ensure a rapid response to network events—without involving anyone.
Low on resources and time? With the ability to trigger commands in response to Intermapper alerts, you can reduce remediation time from hours to minutes, allowing your IT team to concentrate on other significant initiatives.
10 Ways Intermapper Solves Network Monitoring Challenges for Real Organizations
Download The Intermapper Use Case Guide to learn how organizations of various sizes and industries rely on Intermapper for a complete view of their network infrastructure.
Ready to Get Started with Network Monitoring Software?
Try Intermapper and see if it’s right for you. Our 30-day trial lets you map and monitor 500 devices for free.
Network Monitoring Software for All Industries
Efficient network management tools for Windows, AIX, Linux, or IBM i are crucial for organizations relying on consistent network performance from their digital devices. This means that organizations from all industries – from tech to education – should consider Intermapper’s versatile and dependable network performance monitoring service. Select your industry below to learn why a network monitoring program is essential and how Intermapper can help.
Network Monitoring Software FAQs
What is network monitoring?
Network monitoring involves continuous surveilling computer networks to detect issues like slow traffic or component failure and alerting administrators to prevent disruptions and prolonged downtime.
Why is network monitoring important?
Its primary use is to identify potential performance issues and bottlenecks before they occur. Human error and configuration issues often lead to minor performance problems that escalate into network outages. A lack of network visibility is another dangerous side effect of absent monitoring. A Forrester survey indicated that 81% of IT leaders believe network visibility is essential for strong network security and response.
How does network monitoring software work?
Network monitoring software sends requests and queries to network devices assets and reports on the results. Every NMS uses a different way of querying devices, but regardless of whether that’s Ping, ICMP, or SNMP, all communications are protocol based. When querying devices, the NMS requests information using management information base (MIBS) or object identifiers (OID) to retrieve distinct metrics that support performance data. The NMS presents this information via the software’s interface.
How can network monitoring tools help optimize networks and troubleshoot issues?
Optimizing any network starts with establishing performance baselines. This helps determine which protocols or infrastructure to adjust to maintain optimal performance. Understanding behaviors of devices and ensuring they’re not reaching certain thresholds or alarms helps the operator maximize information and understand the network’s needs.
For troubleshooting, whether it's a configuration error or abnormal traffic fluctuation, network monitoring software helps you quickly resolve issues. Live network maps show problem origins, and status windows provide performance metrics over time. Network automation tools help you identify and fix problems automatically, without human involvement.
How do I monitor my own network traffic?
You can monitor your network traffic using tools like Wireshark, NetFlow, or built-in features in your router or operating system. These tools allow you to track data usage, identify connected devices, and analyze traffic patterns. Always ensure you follow privacy laws and guidelines when monitoring network activity. Intermapper is the best solution for comprehensive network monitoring, providing real-time insights and easy-to-use features.
Does Microsoft have a network monitoring tool?
Microsoft offers network monitoring tools like Azure Network Watcher and Windows Performance Monitor, which provide basic capabilities for tracking network performance and diagnostics. For a more robust and feature-rich solution, Intermapper stands out with real-time mapping, customizable alerts, and support for diverse network environments.
What types of network devices can Intermapper find and monitor?
Intermapper can monitor any device that supports IP technology and is currently broadcasting. Intermapper sends out requests and queries based on IP technology, so if the device does in fact support IP technology, then Intermapper will be able to find, map, and monitor it.
How can I get started with Intermapper? What are its licensing models?
Most people start by downloading a free trial of Intermapper. Deploying Intermapper’s free trial is straightforward and intuitive, taking just minutes and requiring only the IP addresses to monitor. You can then make modifications based on your preferences, baselines, and specific measurements. If you purchase an Intermapper license, you can keep everything from the trial version.
Intermapper’s licensing structure is different from other monitoring solutions in that it is straightforward and based on the number of IPs to monitor rather than the functions and sensors available.