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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

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

64th

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

104

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 January 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Statseeker is 0.3%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Zabbix is 11.5%, down from 11.8% 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 feature is just the fact that it doesn't aggregate the information up, and I can look at detailed information going back quite a long time."

"We're able to recover more expensive ports on our access line devices."

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

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

"It also allows us to predict the capacity on WAN circuits, as well as other circuits, to help us plan for upgrading."

"This solution provides us with a quicker response in troubleshooting."

"It is fairly simple and easy to use as an all-purpose network monitor."

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

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"Health and communication links availability."

"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."

"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."

"The best feature is that Zabbix can report everything, and everything in Zabbix is free."

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

"The best thing about Zabbix is the integration and the APIs that are included are very fast"

"The integration capabilities and APIs are the best part."

"The calculations part is the most valuable."

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Cons

"With Statseeker I'd like to see some flow, i.e. what's tuning-up the network. The trend I like is managing the traffic load by going to the cloud."

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

"That user interface for selecting things needs to be a little more intuitive."

"The interface could be more user-friendly and it would be nice if there were enhanced options for reporting."

"I would like to see some layer two and layer three topology mappings, similar to what NNMi and SolarWinds presents."

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

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

"It would be nice if they had twenty-four-hour technical support because we contact Australia and we have to wait for them to open."

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"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."

"The product could be more secure and more stable."

"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."

"It could be more stable."

"The performance reporting could be improved."

"The stability could be better."

"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

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

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

"Compared to other solutions such as Zabbix and AKiPS, this solution is very well priced."

"Up until we actually talked to Statseeker, and Statseeker came and gave us an enterprise licensing model for multiple accounts, I would have said the pricing was not good value. The fact they've come to the party now and given us a very good discount, I would say it's probably about right, the pricing they're giving us now. But the retail pricing, if I went out and, as a separate company, and asked for pricing for one account, I probably would say their retail pricing is not competitive. The fact that they've given us a discount now because we have multiple servers across multiple accounts, I would say that pricing is about right, but not their retail pricing. It's too expensive."

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

"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."

More Statseeker pricing and cost advice

"There are no licenses."

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

"The tool's licensing is good."

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."

"We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

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

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

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it_user174738

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

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

19%

Retailer

Educational Organization

University

Educational Organization

39%

Computer Software Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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?

I use the tool's free version.

What needs improvement with Zabbix?

I'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds.

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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.

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