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What is Kaseya VSA?
Kaseya Virtual System Administrator (VSA) is a cloud-based Remote Monitoring and Management software. VSA unifies the monitoring of system infrastructure and endpoints and is designed for use by IT teams and MSP’s. It offers a robust crowd-source automation scripts library, as well as antivirus and malware capabilities with real-time threat alerts.
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Users recommend exploring alternative options. They advise organizations to thoroughly evaluate their needs and research different solutions before making a decision. This recommendation reflects the recognition that Kaseya may not be the best fit for every organization and encourages users to explore alternative options.
Users suggest focusing on specific needs. To avoid feeling overwhelmed by the extensive list of features, users recommend focusing on the specific tools and functionalities needed from Kaseya. This recommendation emphasizes the importance of identifying the key requirements of an organization and selecting a solution that aligns with those needs.
Users advise investing time in learning and support. Several users highlight the importance of leveraging resources like Kaseya University for thorough understanding of the system. They also recommend becoming proficient in the scripting language used for remote system management. Additionally, users express the need for better sales support and assistance from Kaseya, suggesting that investing time in learning and seeking dedicated expertise can help maximize the benefits of using the tool.
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May 23, 2022
Kaseya VSA
We use Kaseya VSA to manage workstation/server endpoint software, updates, reboot cycles, and use it for remote connectivity - interactive desktop/files. We've also found great value is VSA's ability to update/manage/deploy applications very quickly and seamlessly using pre-defined application lists. However, one of the best features is the ability to execute remote commands - powershell or Windows CMD, quietly, remotely. This is a very powerful feature to use, especially when troubleshooting.
- Remote client connections
- Provide a single pane of glass for all systems' update statuses, rollouts, and approvals
- Remote command line options
- The interface can be a little sluggish at times
- There is no option that I've seen to connect to an IdP
- We've seen occasional double entries of agents, there doesn't appear to be any mechanism to prevent this.
September 15, 2021
Kaseya VSA helps to save time and money by allowing you to manage multiple endpoints within a single pane of glass.
We are an MSP (Managed Services Provider) and as an MSP, we have a need to mange multiple clients remotely. Kaseya VSA allows us to monitor workstations and servers and gives us quick access to remote sessions to troubleshoot. Kaseya VSA also helps us automate things like patching, and antivirus scans and updates.
- Workstation and server monitoring
- Workstation and server patching and updating
- Antivirus updating, scanning, remediation
- Easy to create and run procedures on multiple systems simultaneously
- The UI is very dated
- Support is tough to get a hold of quickly
- Support for more antivirus vendors within the VSA would be nice
- Agents fail frequently which creates false-positive offline alerts
As a small MSP, we support roughly 1100 endpoints using Kaseya VSA. It is used for 95% of our clients' endpoints and is designed to remotely monitor and manage computers for everyday troubleshooting and maintenance.
- Works well with custom PowerShell scripts
- Centrally manages groups and subgroups well
- Does not require MFA sign-ins more than once or twice a month on one PC
- Permits connectivity to multiple endpoints simultaneously
- Muddles up keystrokes and key commands
- Consistently drops connectivity with multiple sessions open
- Times out unexpectedly
- Generally does not allow proper copy/paste from management PCs
March 30, 2020
Kaseya...more like KaseNO!
Kaseya VSA was used by my company to remotely monitor our products that were installed in various locations around the world. It was mainly used by the engineering team for monitoring the test sites, manufacturing (which is what I was doing) monitoring our production test site, and by the field service team to monitor customer sites.
- The home screen for all of the agents shows lots of information that you can customize.
- File transfers to remote desktops were straightforward.
- Connection issues. This was a constant headache for me. The internet would be working fine in both locations, but Kaseya would struggle to make the connection.
- Customer service. Trying to fix the connection issues was another headache for me as well. They were difficult to discuss issues with and preferred email communication. This lead to the issues never getting resolved, even when we gave them full logs of our connection problems.
November 15, 2019
Get Kaseya to improve your IT infrastructure!
We use Kaseya VSA internally for our IT operations and also at our customer sites to enable us to remotely monitor, administer, patch, and maintain end-users computers and servers. Kaseya provides a great array of tools for our IT operations that enable us to cut down the time that is spent on maintaining IT systems and improved reliability.
- It enables to remotely administer end-users' computers and server.
- It's a great reporting tool to get us an overview of IT infrastructure.
- It improves the reliability of our internal IT operations and our end-customers' IT operations.
- The monitoring tools notify if applications and servers are running properly.
- Kaseya patching sometimes works and sometimes doesn't deploy all operating system hotfixes\patches.
- It takes some time to configure correctly.
- Tech support could use improvements, since you're usually on hold past 15 minutes.
- Add-ons tend to be expensive.
October 21, 2019
Best in class
We use it to monitor and manage our 150+ corporate clients. It's integral to our day to day operations.
- One dashboard for all engineers to access giving them a broad picture of what's going on in a client's network.
- Together with BMS and IT Glue, we are able to proactively manage our client's IT needs. With proper ticket flow and dispatch calendar and scheduling, we are more effective and efficient when we handle their needs.
- With a full suite of services through Kaseya, we can roll out products and services to our clients through one efficient product.
- Better reporting.
- Better training on current products.
- Soc support.
September 24, 2019
Budget friendly but with high-end features.
We have utilized many platforms over the years and none have quite been as solid as Kaseya. Not to say there are not issues, but among the competition, we have found repeatedly that Kaseya takes a competitive edge. For example, it integrates with a large library of vendors, the support is decent (which for this market, is a win) and the product overvalue is fantastic.
- Endpoint management.
- Vendor integration.
- Remote desktop.
- Support times.
- UI is a bit dated feeling.
- Patch management can get a bit strange to manage.
July 30, 2019
VSA great tool for ease and piece of mind
We use VSA for a few things. We use it to push out malware and anti-virus to all of our clients. This includes automatic definition updates for these programs. We also use the live connect feature. We have software that requires USB dongles for the software to be recognized as licensed. Through RDP, these dongles do not work. Using live connect, we can access the software.
- Live Connect Feature
- Dashboard
- Easy to use software updates
- Lack of 2FA options
- Better communication for issues
March 11, 2019
Kaseya VSA is not for everyone
We use VSA for management services. We manage over 500 devices and use its available policies and management tools to keep them updated, to deploy new devices to existing companies, and to onboard new customers.
- Schedules agent deployment, minimizes the need to touch each endpoint.
- Global policy deployment or company defined.
- Management dashboard, a one-stop place to see the status of all your devices.
- Customer service, sales, and technical support are not always the best or the fastest.
- The patch management policy is cumbersome and it does not work. A lot of end devices do not get the needed update or do not report back as necessary
- Two-factor authentication is expensive
- Kaseya does not have great reporting tools, and can be a pain when billing depending on your accounting system
November 26, 2018
Kaseya VSA, great tool but could use some improvements
VSA is our primary monitoring and remote access system. It allows us to manage servers and workstations as well as remotely connect. This is used by myself and my service team daily. It addresses the obvious problem as an MSP of managing devices and assisting end users. VSA also assist with creating reports that are used to review hardware with clients.
- Advanced scripting system, provides a great engine for building and deploying scripts to multiple computers and/or servers.
- Remote control features, utilize clipboard as well as copying files and other settings.
- Windows and third-party patching, push software updates as well as Windows Updates to servers and workstations.
- Remote control is very slow. Both initiating connections and utilizing remote access is a bit slower than expected, and slower than competitors.
- Interface is a little clunky. It's sometimes hard to navigate and difficult to pickup for new users.
- Overall not very intuitive. Strange decisions for the backend code. In order to remotely connect once locating your agent, you must click on a small, unlabeled button on the far left. Hovering over the button is also how you review data, none of this is easy to pickup.
March 06, 2018
Kaseya VSA in a nutshell
We use Kaseya to automate patch management, audit equipment, and finish systems configs during the build process on all managed systems.
- Applies specific settings to machines that match certain criteria
- Remotely run scripted procedures against monitored events in system event logs
- Maintains and audit and change records of all devices
- Manages machines across multiple active directory domains
- Policy application & push. Currently all policies claim to not be current on 1000's of machines, when in fact they are. Re-running policy sync's across all devices daily is a huge tax on the system. Although this is strictly a cosmetic issue, because the policies are in fact correct & current, the dashboard lacks the ability to keep its' records straight. This has been a problem since version 6.
- Live connect. In earlier versions I could customize web links for end users, this feature was removed in 9.0, and has been raised to dev on multiple occasions. Under the current version only a max of 5 links appear, and they are customization by the end user.
- Patch policies need to include a simpler way to exclude patches. Like with WSUS its much simpler to have a policy that denies specific patches rather than creating a policy to allow everything with exceptions. When policies are changed every month with new patch cycles this is hard to manage.
- The Reporting feature lacks an intuitive interface. Its easier to write a query and run it on the back end in Microsoft reporting than use the built-in reporting feature.
- Procedure log interface needs to be created. When writing procedures and then testing them, I have to leave the procedure section and browse logs under audit, then return to procedures.
- Procedures that fail need to have additional logging, there is a lot of guess work when trying to understand why a procedure failed, this could be simplified by passing the powershell or dos failures directly into kaseya, instead of saying this line item failed.
- Procedures that fail under IF then statements, it would be better to state which line item failed when using if then statements instead of saying a script failed at the if then statement and not a line within the if then statement.
We use Kaseya to Manage our clients' environment. Kaseya makes routine maintenance and management much simpler allowing us to proactively maintain and manage our clients' environments effectively.
- Scripting - Very powerful scripting engine that allows us to update/install applications and maintain PC's and Servers.
- Policy Management - Globally configured policies allowing us to make changes to thousands of PC's quickly.
- Monitoring - Monitoring engine allows us to Proactively respond to alerts quickly minimizing downtime significantly.
- Patch Management - This module requires minimal effort to manage and maintain.
- Support - Like all other competitors support is OK but the product is robust enough to reduce support requirements.
- Customer Service - another team that is a bit poor especially when the issue involves multiple departments. Otherwise, the direct rep is very friendly and professional.
March 01, 2018
Kaseya is a solid choice
Our IT department uses Kaseya VSA to support users throughout our company in our nearly 20 locations across the country. We can do more with Kaseya VSA than if we were physically seated at the machine and can complete nearly any operation silently without disturbing the users or disrupting productivity.
- Remote access is fast and stable when needed to share a users session on a workstation. This allows us to directly see problems/errors, and directly witness what the user is trying to do when encountering problems. This is much more effective than relying on a users description of a technical issue.
- Endpoint support is available without the user ever knowing you're working on their machine. Whether you're transferring files or applying registry edits, they keep working while you work.
- Kaseya is always adding additional modules and interfaces with both internal and third party applications such as Veeam. Getting so much functionality in a single window makes our complex environment more simple to manage.
- The only area I can see where a lot of room for improvement can be made is in scripting of Agent procedures. Making operations more modular and able to be assembled by technicians who might not be strong in a scripting environment would be helpful. In the mean time, Kaseya has an entire site and a whole team of developers who write Agent procedures for common tasks and make them available for free to all Kaseya VSA customers.
April 24, 2017
A must have for MSPs
We are a managed service provider and Kaseya VSA allows us to manage all areas of our managed services under one window. This system allows me to manage everything from backup, security, and maintenance from one system. We have over 500 endpoints on the system that we manage. Without VSA we would have to manage every system individually.
- Integrate security software such as Malwarebytes enterprise and Kaspersky Enterprise and allow you to manage these systems for many companies under one window.
- VSA has a great backup system built into it. We have the ability to backup endpoints to our secure cloud without a VPN.
- Scripting is very easy with VSA. We set up maintenance scripts to run on all our desktop endpoints. The system comes with some great scripts out of the box and the website has many more scripts you can use.
- VSA support has fallen short in the past. Tickets with Kaseya support take a long time to get completed.
- Some plugins within the system (that Kaseya own) always have issues and have to be re-installed.
- I wish the system had a time billing option (without buying add-on).
August 30, 2016
Kaseya - Great Network Monitoring Software
We use it on all our client's machines. This allows us to audit, monitor and fix issues with any device that is running it. It is a great tool for many different reasons.
- We can remotely run an audit on a machine without actually having to log onto the machine.
- We can if needed log into a machine and take control.
- Being able to remotely access machines allows us to be more efficient. We no longer have to travel from client to client. I am able to work on several clients at the same time.
- We have found that the running auto updates on client machines through Kaseya is hit or miss. Granted if the device is turned off it won't get updated but we found a few times where something should have been updated but wasn't.
August 02, 2016
Kaseya for the proactive approach
Kaseya Network Monitor is being used by our company to monitor our server farm performance and uptime. It alerts us of any issues so that our team can take action.
- Kaseya monitors our server uptime.
- Kaseya monitors critical services i.e SSH, NTP.
- Kaseya monitors crashed apps on our Linux servers.
- Ease of use. Configuration can seem complex at times.
- False positives are sometimes annoying.
- Updates could be easier as they sometimes fail during the process.
April 15, 2016
Isaac's Review.
Our company uses Kaseya VSA mostly throughout the entire company to remote access PCs and servers. It addresses problems where users are having issues doing certain things, then we can remote into their PCs and fix that for them. Also, when we need to do maintenance on servers, we can use this tool for that.
- Agent Procedure Scripts.
- Pushing out Anti Virus and Anti Malware.
- Remote Controlling PC's and Servers.
- Better Support for Remote Access (less disconnections).
- Support for Live Connect through Google Chrome.