Azure Network Watcher vs Statseeker comparison

Microsoft and Techniche are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Microsoft is ranked #51 with an average rating of 8.3, while Techniche is ranked #63 with an average rating of 7.0. Microsoft holds a 0.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Techniche’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Microsoft users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Techniche users who would recommend it.

Azure Network Watcher

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Azure Network Watcher

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Statseeker and Azure Network Watcher are competitors in the network performance monitoring category. Azure Network Watcher has an edge with superior features contributing to network optimization despite higher costs.

Features: Statseeker focuses on real-time data collection, scalability, and providing useful insights for network performance monitoring. Azure Network Watcher offers diagnostic and analytics tools, detailed network troubleshooting, and optimization capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Statseeker can improve the user interface, expand its analytics capabilities, and integrate more with third-party applications. Azure Network Watcher may benefit from simplifying its feature set, reducing setup complexity, and offering more competitive pricing tiers.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Statseeker offers simple deployment with responsive customer support, ensuring easy integration. Azure Network Watcher presents more complex deployment due to its integration with the Azure ecosystem but benefits from comprehensive support and documentation.

Pricing and ROI: Statseeker is cost-effective, providing swift ROI through efficient deployment and operational savings. Azure Network Watcher justifies its higher initial costs with substantial ROI from its advanced features and tools that enhance network optimization and security.

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Categories and Ranking

Azure Network Watcher

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

51st

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

6.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

63rd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Azure Network Watcher is 0.4%, down from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Statseeker is 0.2%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Bijoyendra Roychowdhury

Program Manager at Capgemini

Network monitoring provides comprehensive analytics while the interface requires further development

The quality of Azure Network Watcher is quite good in terms of the in-depth analysis you can create from these matrices. There are other monitoring tools such as New Relic, AppDynamics, and Dynatrace which provide very detailed network tracing. Cloud providers such as Azure or AWS do not have that kind of GUI-based capability at this point, but using PowerShell or Python, you can develop it yourself. From the GUI perspective, it still needs to evolve in terms of quality and standard, though overall, it is quite good for troubleshooting. Regarding areas for improvement, when comparing to other network tools beyond Azure Monitor or Azure Network Watcher, those tools can identify single failed packets. This level of granularity is not currently possible with cloud providers as they only go to a certain level rather than the granular level needed for deep troubleshooting, though they do provide hints with available matrices.

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John Elhariry

Team Leader at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

We can set up a dashboard to monitor the status of an entire site, which provides more insight into any issues across devices

One engineer is enough for the solution's maintenance. There has been a significant improvement in Statseeker in the last few versions. It includes a wallet map and features we plan to implement when deploying the latest or penultimate versions across all our sites. This will significantly assist in identifying sites surpassing thresholds or KPIs, making issue detection much more accessible. The threshold feature is handy for identifying delays and major outages. This graphical map enables us to quickly assess the scope of nationwide problems, allowing for swift action and efficient reporting to management and service providers. This tool facilitates monitoring by visualizing all network elements with their respective coordinates, highlighting any downtimes or issues through color-coded green for operational, orange for approaching thresholds, yellow for minor alarms, and red for critical issues. The tool is a monitoring tool that helps in identifying problems. It is necessary to have someone trained to set up the dashboards because they might require some programming or specific configuration skills. Once it's configured, it works well. It's not as straightforward as other tools where you plug in the device, and everything works. With Statseeker, you still need to put in some effort to set up your dashboard properly. It requires someone with good training and proficiency in setting up these dashboards. They can benefit the technical and operations teams, providing useful insights into the network and the executive management team to receive reports on the overall network health. Overall, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"We use the solution to monitor network services. It helps to capture any network issues."

"The most valuable features I have found are typology, visualization, and capture."

"The stability is very good. I rate it a ten out of ten."

"The solution is good for monitoring device behavior."

"The most valuable feature of Azure Network Watcher is using the gateways with the connections. The monitoring is useful for the logs and application insights into the data. The traffic filtering issues when it comes to deploying those applications are helpful."

"It provides good visibility."

"The most valuable feature of Azure Network Watcher is the cloud-native application firewall. It is helpful for securing databases."

"The solution is stable."

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"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."

"This solution helps in terms of troubleshooting, and you can do capacity planning with it."

"In terms of network visibility, Statseeker can be very granular. We can tell it exactly where we want it to go and where we want it to check, or it can do an SNMP walk and find out where everything is. It's very detailed."

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

"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."

"This solution allowed us to track down trouble users."

"The product simplifies monitoring by providing real-time alerts through a GUI dashboard, email and texts."

"The most valuable feature is alerting."

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Cons

"User experience could be improved."

"I still use Wireshark and Azure Network Watcher to get the required data. My team captures the traffic from Azure Network Watcher, downloads it, then imports that traffic into Wireshark to get more details on the number of hits and replies, for example. If you can do that on Azure Network Watcher and have Wireshark built-in, that would make Azure Network Watcher better. If Azure Network Watcher has that functionality where you won't need a third-party tool to get what you need, that would be helpful. I'm also expecting more from Azure Network Watcher. It's more complex than knowing how the IP flows from its source to the destination. The tool also needs more open-source features, such as having some built-in Wireshark that improves monitoring for customers. Sometimes, you encounter a VPN tunnel, network, or routing issue, but finding out more about the blockage is challenging. Is it one hundred percent an Azure issue? Is it a peer issue? You don't get complete information from Azure Network Watcher, so you must use other tools and depend on your strategies to resolve a specific issue. If more features could be added in the next release of Azure Network Watcher, specifically ones you can find on open-source tools, then that would be a plus point for the tool."

"The solution could improve by limiting the need to clarify the logs. When the clarification is minimized, it is better for everyone involved."

"The initial setup and deployment could be improved to be simplified."

"The initial setup and initial learning curve could be improved to be easier."

"Lacks sufficient security features."

"Azure is good, however, the Fortinet GUI is more intuitive and I like it more than anything else."

"Azure Network Watcher needs to have better documentation and it needs to capture information accurately."

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"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)."

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

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

"I would like to see a friendlier user interface in the administration tool."

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

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

"I would like to see more comprehensive reporting and alerting."

"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."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of the solution is reasonable."

"Azure Network Watcher is a little bit expensive."

"The pricing is good. It's not too expensive."

"Price-wise, I have no information on how much Azure Network Watcher costs."

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

"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."

"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."

"This tool would probably be priced well if it had deeper NetFlow capabilities, but for our use case, in particular, we're only recovering ports after ninety days and looking at circuit congestion, it's pretty pricey."

"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."

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

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

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

16%

Computer Software Company

12%

Government

11%

University

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Azure Network Watcher?

I like the visibility.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Network Watcher?

It is affordable.

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What needs improvement with Azure Network Watcher?

User experience could be improved.

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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...

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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.

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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...

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Overview

Azure Network Watcher is a comprehensive network monitoring and diagnostic service offered by Microsoft Azure. It provides a range of tools and capabilities to help users monitor, diagnose, and gain insights into their Azure network infrastructure. With Network Watcher, users can capture and analyze network traffic, monitor network performance, troubleshoot connectivity issues, and gain visibility into network topology. It also offers features like packet capture, flow logs, connection monitoring, and VPN diagnostics to ensure the smooth operation of Azure networks. Network Watcher enables users to proactively identify and resolve network issues, optimize network performance, and enhance the overall reliability and security of their Azure network environment.

Microsoft

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.

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Sample Customers

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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.

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