Statseeker vs Zabbix comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Zabbix and Statseeker are in the network monitoring category, where Zabbix holds an advantage for its flexibility and open-source nature, while Statseeker is noted for its speed and visualization capabilities.

Features: Zabbix offers extensive alerting systems, detailed monitoring metrics, and integrations with third-party tools. Statseeker ensures high-speed data polling, comprehensive reports, and clear insights.

Room for Improvement: Zabbix can improve its deployment time, configuration clarity, and initial user friendliness. Statseeker could enhance customization options, broaden open-source features, and expand its support community.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Statseeker's deployment is straightforward with efficient support, while Zabbix requires more setup time but benefits from a strong community.

Pricing and ROI: Zabbix incurs low initial costs due to its open-source nature but may need investment in support. Statseeker involves a higher initial cost, offering faster ROI through performance monitoring.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

60th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Zabbix

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

106

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (8th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Statseeker is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 13.0%, up from 11.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Network Monitoring Software

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Jessie Hackney

Network Engineer at West Virginia Department of Education

Simplifies monitoring and provides real-time alerts for issues we might not immediately be aware of otherwise

The product has improved our organization by simplifying monitoring and giving real-time alerts for issues we might not immediately be aware of otherwise. If we notice five devices with latency or errors, I wouldn't know that if I didn't command line into 800 devices and check every day. I can see the status on the dashboard and it just makes it easy to know where the problems are. If we didn't have that capability by using Statseeker, then it would be very complex to monitor. We'd need to have another tool or manually log into every device to try to check things. And this product just does it all for us. That streamlines and improves our workload so that we only need to have two people in our office for the network team. It improves availability. If a circuit goes down texts and email alerts get sent out. So, even if it's in the evening or we're not on premises, we'll know if something's down. We use it all the time because it really helps.

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ASM Naushad Alam

Network Manager at a financial services firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes

We have not yet purchased the commercial version so have a lack of technical ability. We do not yet fully know the key points or key features of the solution. We just use what we use along with WhatsUp Gold. Based on our use only, stability is rated a seven out of ten.

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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

"Being able to look back historically at the uptime and downtime is invaluable."

"The solution reduces the complexity of our network monitoring because it can make my engineers do their jobs faster. The solution also reduces troubleshooting time for network administrators to pinpoint issues quicker."

"We are now able to easily track where problems are with bandwidth and port errors, rather than having to do a lot of diagnostics."

"Statseeker helps to quickly see if you have a spike or something going on. In the future, we need to get NetFlow in the tool so we can see what the IP is."

"The most valuable feature is alerting."

"The most important feature for us is the interface statistics, because our customer normally asks us for bandwidth utilization reports. Statseeker has very descriptive transmit and receive information."

"The most important for us is how fast this solution is, as well as the granularity that you can get to, such as per-minute statistics."

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where you have everything right there on the screen."

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"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."

"The most valuable feature is service assurance."

"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."

"Health and communication links availability."

"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."

"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."

"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."

"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."

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Cons

"The user interface needs a great deal of improvement."

"Detailed data can be hard to extract in CSV form. Sometimes, being able to dump down raw data would be good so various time periods across a longer period could be analysed. At present, data can be presented within Statseeker, but there is lots of "white space" between data points."

"If it had more detailed NetFlow information then it would be far better."

"It would be very nice to have the Cisco ACI option included in the regular license."

"I'd say the interface could improve a little bit. I find with new users, I tend to have to spend a bit of time walking them through how to use the interface. It could be a little more user friendly."

"More private MIB object support, such as WAN optimisation performance and wireless, would be helpful."

"There is a little bit of room to improve in the alerting section to give some more options there. It's all I can think of right now off the top of my head."

"The user interface needs to be made more intuitive."

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"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."

"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."

"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."

"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"It's probably $5K a year for the license."

"The yearly cost varies as per the number of devices being monitored. The cost for 25,000 devices is about $4500."

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

"We pay a yearly maintenance fee of approximately $40,000 USD."

"We now feel the pricing is a good value. Previously we had a just a normal license but now we've got an Enterprise license. Since the Enterprise, it's been a lot better value. We did think it was pretty expensive before, but with the Enterprise license it's almost less than half that price. If you have a number of accounts within the organization that use Statseeker, I would suggest get the Enterprise license."

"One thing that needs improvement is how it's licensed. I understand historically the company licensed it off a same charge for everyone. I understand the company needs to make money, but how they introduced the tiered licensing model, and then multiple layers of licensing was a bit of an issue. So, on the whole, coming up with a licensing model that isn't confusing and complicated and is easy to understand would be one way to improve the product. They have told me lately that they're changing how they license stuff, but they haven't made that - as I understand it - in their marketing material public knowledge as of yet. I would say that at the moment it's a bit convoluted. It's confusing. Some of their basic licensing model is a bit of a ripoff. If you go over five or ten support calls in the basic licensing model they start charging you for support calls. I think that's a bit rich."

"We have permanent licenses so there's really no cost, other than ongoing maintenance. When I think about it, that's running us about $20,000 a year."

"We pay somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000 yearly in licensing fees."

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"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"This solution is open-source and free to use."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

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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

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Financial Services Firm

19%

Computer Software Company

University

Energy/Utilities Company

Educational Organization

32%

Computer Software Company

12%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Statseeker?

We are content with our current setup and its features. Additionally, we appreciate Statseeker's responsiveness to our queries and requests for improvements, particularly in monitoring. The upcomin...

What needs improvement with Statseeker?

There is a need for many developments to mature Statseeker. It should provide a study use case to show how it monitors the SD-WAN service.

What is your primary use case for Statseeker?

Statseeker provides the basic monitoring status of our network elements, including latency, ping delays, and ping drops. Its strengths lie in a couple of areas. Firstly, it is not an expensive tool...

What do you like most about Zabbix?

The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Zabbix?

The cost is minimal. It is literally free.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

For me, Zabbix is very straightforward. I cannot think of any improvements needed. It's a very mature product. The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the...

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Overview

Statseeker is the only network performance monitoring technology to seamlessly and successfully combine speed + scale + value. Statseeker is a global provider delivering innovative network monitoring solutions for the IT enterprise and OT industrial market space. With active deployments in over 22 countries and many Fortune 100 firms, Statseeker monitors millions of interfaces in real-time. Instant visibility: Installed in minutes, polls up to 1 million ports from a single server… reduce your time to repair. Powerful monitoring: Checks every port over entire network, every 60 seconds… low network consumption bandwidth. Fast reporting: Practical real-time dashboard, reports in seconds, instant alerts… maximize your up-time. Smart data: 100% network data, original granularity, never rolled up, never averaged… tune for peak performance, control CAPEX and OPEX.

Techniche

Zabbix is an open-source monitoring software that provides real-time monitoring and alerting for servers, networks, applications, and services.

It offers a wide range of features including data collection, visualization, and reporting.

With its user-friendly interface and customizable dashboards, Zabbix helps organizations ensure the availability and performance of their IT infrastructure.

Sample Customers

With active deployments in over 22 countries and many Fortune 100 firms, Statseeker monitors millions of interfaces in real-time. Some example customers include: FedEx, Optus, Verizon, California State University, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Monash University, Texas A&M University.

1. IBM 2. Dell 3. Cisco 4. HP 5. Oracle 6. Microsoft 7. Amazon 8. Google 9. Facebook 10. Twitter 11. LinkedIn 12. Netflix 13. Adobe 14. VMware 15. Salesforce 16. SAP 17. Intel 18. AT&T 19. Verizon 20. T-Mobile 21. Vodafone 22. Ericsson 23. Nokia 24. Siemens 25. General Electric 26. Honeywell 27. Philips 28. Sony 29. Samsung 30. LG 31. Panasonic 32. Toshiba

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