Statseeker Reviews

I was primarily using this solution for network traffic analysis. We are switching to another product.

If somebody is complaining about slow networking then this solution allows us to see various ports to find out whether they are being overloaded.

The most valuable feature is the ability to look at historical traffic.

A more user-friendly interface would help because it is sometimes difficult to find specific data that you are looking for. It would be nice if I could easily select individual interfaces.

It would be helpful to be able to view specific ports, more easily.

From what we have discovered, it is not really a single pane of glass.

Stability-wise, this is a good solution.

I do not feel that this solution is very scalable. It is sometimes hard to drill down and find specific interfaces that you need to track.

I have not dealt with their technical support.

We did not use another solution prior to this one. However, we are switching from Statseeker to Observium. The reason for the switch is that in Observium, the interface is really well-refined. You can select individual interfaces and you can pull up graphs really easily.

I was not part of the initial setup.

One of our in-house staff performed the setup.

I have not tracked the ROI.

This is a solution that is useful when you can find the information. It would benefit from being able to view specific ports more easily.

For my recommendation, I would suggest Observium over this solution.

I would rate this solution a five out of ten.

The features that we use are as follows:

• The out of the box graphs are excellent to look at trends very quickly going back a few days to a year, this saves a lot of time when carrying out IM.
• The ability to change interface speeds so that some higher level of granularity can be seen.
• We consistently use the fast graphing function when conducting IM. It is really easy and intuitive to use so even non technical people can use it with little or no training.

We have used this product since the organization was established and it has been a integral part of our business as usual functions and I would suggest that if we stopped using it then this would have a negative impact on our operations.

Keep it simple, the product works so I would not over complicate it. The only thing I would add is to keep improving the Netflow analysis interface this is something that we find very useful.

We have used this application for nearly 13 years in a major network of around 700 WAN sites.

No, we find the product extremely stable, noting that as a health provider we don’t use the latest version or beta versions.

Not so far, we have around 2500 mainly Cisco devices in our current version and have not had any issues so far.

Statseeeker have been very good communicators and are always willing to assist. The truth is we set it up and it runs so we really don’t use any support but are thankful for the small number of times we have called on Statseeker support.

We also use a number other network tools such as CA eHealth, Cisco Prime, Splunk, etc. concurrently, some of these tools have real strengths but so does Statseeker as outlined above. From our experience, large networks requires more than one tool and a mix will give better results to the business.

The setup is pretty straightforward, the tool does an SNMP get from the MIBs and loads it up which is a very simple process.

As stated above, we concurrently use a number of tools and have looked at others but most have issues with licensing, scalability, complexity of setting it up, etc. We have found the Statseeker product to be very easy to set up, it runs and is easy to use so are very happy with it.

Make sure that your naming convention is kept the same to make it easier to search use all lower case as capitol letter are treated differently to lower case.

I would rate the product as 8 out of 10, it is a robust application that we use on a daily basis mainly for incident management.

We use this solution for monitoring the status of all network devices.

We monitor links, bandwidth utilization, and device CPU and memory utilization. We generate reports of the top ten utilization links, which are helpful for acting proactively.

The Statseeker polling engine is very efficient and it does not miss any outage.

Device grouping is very easy, and you can discover thousands of devices in a few minutes.

Other valuable options are efficiency, availability, and vendor support.

This solution is very user-friendly.

Building a server is very easy and in the case where it crashes, it can be made ready in a couple of minutes. Restoring data is very fast and simple.

I very much like the outages and statistics report, as it is helping to be proactive.

I would like to see the addition of a network configuration management feature. It would take online backup configurations, deploy configurations to active nodes, compare configuration changes,  provide detailed hardware reports, and generate the configuration compliance reports. 

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

A single server can handle hundreds of thousands of interfaces.

We did use another solution prior to this one, but we switched because Statseeker is very efficient and very user-friendly.

The cost, pricing, and licensing are better compared to other solutions.

• Monitoring entire network
• Creating outage and performance reports

Proactive reports about outages and utilization.

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

Configuration management: In configuration management it would be helpful if it would backup configuration files (running and start-up configuration) for devices. (Not sure if this is already available in the latest version).

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Technical support is excellent, the staff is qualified and responses times are very good. They always reply to our inquires in detail.

We switched due to performance.

Initial setup is very straightforward.

Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited.

Other options are not so easy to use and manage. A single server handles more than 5000 nodes.

It is very scalable, stable, easy to use and manage.

Our primary use case is for monitoring traffic.

This solution allowed us to track down trouble users.

Being able to look at individual devices is the feature we found most useful.

It's stable as far as I'm concerned.

Scalability has been fine for us, thus far.

I haven't had any personal experience with technical support yet, so I don't know.

The solution's granularity in terms of network visibility is pretty solid. I haven't used it too often lately though. I'm not in that section of the organization anymore.

I don't know that the solution has had much of an impact on the complexity of our network monitoring. It's just another tool we can use.

I'm sure Statseeker has helped a little bit with our network availability, at some point.

From my experience, I'd give it an eight out of ten. It has worked when I needed it to.

Our primary and only use for this product is for network monitoring.

The product does what we need it to do, and definitely gives us heads-up on results and issues we are having in a timely manner.

The most valuable feature — and the value of the product — lie in its delivery of day-to-day, real-time information.

The user interface could be more friendly. When I say user-friendly I mean additional windows with information on additional day-to-day statistics.

It could also benefit the user more if it had additional features for reporting.

It's really stable. We haven't had any problems with stability at all.

It's a very scalable solution. We've used it with most of our network equipment monitoring and we haven't had any performance issues or any other problems.

We previously had WhatsUp Gold which is a really cheap solution. We needed something with better analytical abilities, better reporting, generally better information, and a better interface.

It is straightforward to set up.

I have not seen a measured return on investment. It's a great product. I definitely haven't had any negative experiences with it. I definitely think it helps with day to day operations. That could be a return on investment but it would be hard to measure.

I would give this solution about an eight out of ten. It's not perfect, but it's still a good product. We definitely enjoyed using it. It's fairly simple and easy to use, and it's pretty straightforward. It gives us a lot of information that we need.

SNMP monitoring for up/down locations and bandwidth monitoring: We are able to see problems before they start.

We can be proactive with our calls to customers to see what’s going on in their location before they might even know there is a problem.

The tool is pretty good as it is. It monitors everything we need it to on a day-to-day basis. You know, if I had to complain about anything, it would be the documentation. The videos are good but I’m a manual-reader kind of guy. A comprehensive document, including how-to’s, would be a great addition.

When it comes to documentation I think of Cisco as being the gold-standard.

You can go to their website, search for what you need and within a few click be at a document that will explain, step-by-step what you need to do.

Statseekers’ videos are useful for the basics but when you start getting into details I find there isn’t a lot of documentation.

Of course this might just be a matter of me not being able to find it on the website.  Which again comes down to me being able to search the available documentation. Either by an index-type search or clicking on a screenshot of a Statseeker screenshot and getting some sort of help context.

We have used the solution for two years.

We haven't encountered any issues with stability. I have to say Statseeker has been the most stable of all the applications we use for monitoring.

We have not yet encountered any issues with scalability. We’re still a small customer and I only monitor 20,000 or so interfaces.

We have always been using Statseeker.

Our network is a little special so we have to use a host file, which is burdensome but manageable.

The product seems comparable to other similar solutions, but I don’t pay the bills. I just get to spend the money.

There is no high availability over multiple locations (datacenters) and if you want to maintain what is monitored, I suggest you use the host file. Automatic has never really worked the way I expected it to.

Capacity management of devices and carriage services.

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

• Custom reporting
• 95th Percentile
• Trend lines

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.

No issues with stability.

No issues with scalability.

Excellent. Support team is brilliant. Always responsive. Always positive.

Currently using a variety of tools across multiple accounts.

We are using the Professional edition but would love to upgrade to the higher level Enterprise, as having the full feature set would be the way to go.

Understand what your outputs and customer requirements are first. Then configure the environment to support those needs.