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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Statseeker vs. Zabbix

January 2025

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

62nd

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

105

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Server Monitoring (1st), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (1st), Cloud Monitoring Software (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of February 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 12.2%, up from 11.7% 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

"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."

"It catches frequent flapping of the network and provides detailed reports of outages."

"Summary Reports provide a quick way to identify where potential issues are. Drill-downs provide more granular details very quickly."

"This solution has helped us to proactively identify issues and push some of those fixes down to tier one."

"If you need a product that's able to monitor all the ports in your environment or all the ports that you want, this is a great product to use. Statseeker is quite flexible in tailoring the product, spending time tailoring the product with you. It's fairly low maintenance. It's quite quick."

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

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of adding new devices into it."

"We were having some issues with a certain site, and it was only Statseeker that showed us what the problem was."

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"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."

"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."

"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."

"The solution is stable."

"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."

"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."

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Cons

"The inclusion of configuration management features and SIP links would improve this solution."

"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."

"It may be helpful to have more options in the alerting section."

"I would like the ability to update the dashboard. I would also like the ability to access via an API. Then I could produce a dashboard that my C level can understand. This is just so they can go and refresh whenever they want to and see what things look like."

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

"This solution would be improved with better automatic discovery for ping-only devices."

"Technical support for this solution is bad, as is everything with Cisco support."

"It could use more features on Netflow analyser, such as time series graphs and a single network export UDP port and UDP forwarding."

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"The product delivers false positives during reporting because of flapping. Other reasonably priced alternatives may have better performance."

"As far as improvements, sometimes I get a bit frustrated when I move from a previous version to a new one because some configuration has changed—I need to investigate the documentation to deal with some configuration. But it doesn't take much time, so it's okay."

"The stability could be better."

"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."

"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."

"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."

"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."

"The reports are not great and should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

"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."

"The licensing cost is yearly and it's $5,000 to $8,000, I think."

"It would definitely be a yearly licensing cost, but I don't know what it is."

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

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

"We paid $5,000 to $10,000 a year in maintenance."

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"There are no licenses."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support"

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

"It is open source. If you want to have a subscription or official support, you can pay for it. They have different plans, which are not that expensive. The plans are based on per monitoring server, not per monitored equipment. So, it is not at all expensive, and you can also live without the support if you want a cheaper option."

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

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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

20%

Retailer

University

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

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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