Kentik vs Statseeker comparison

Kentik and Techniche are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Kentik is ranked #34 with an average rating of 9.0, while Techniche is ranked #63 with an average rating of 7.0. Kentik holds a 0.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to Techniche’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Kentik users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Techniche users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Statseeker and Kentik compete in network performance monitoring. Statseeker gains an advantage with its pricing and ease of use, whereas Kentik is favored for its comprehensive feature set.

Features: Statseeker offers high-speed data collection, long-term data retention, and rapid deployment, furnishing real-time network insights. Kentik provides advanced analytics, big-data architecture, and capabilities for deep traffic analysis and anomaly detection, offering in-depth insights for users.

Room for Improvement: Statseeker could enhance its analytics capabilities, expand integration support for third-party tools, and improve its customization options. Kentik might work on simplifying its setup process, lowering its cost for basic features, and minimizing resource consumption for enhanced system efficiency.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Statseeker facilitates a straightforward deployment with minimal configuration, along with dependable customer support for smooth integration. Kentik, despite its complex setup necessity due to feature sophistication, provides thorough documentation and responsive support to aid the integration process, balancing initial setup challenges with robust customer service.

Pricing and ROI: Statseeker offers predictable pricing delivering strong ROI through its cost-effective solution and minimal overhead due to easy setup and low maintenance. Kentik demands a higher initial investment, promising greater ROI with a comprehensive feature set for those needing detailed analysis and data-driven insights, appealing to organizations focusing on extensive analysis benefits.

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Categories and Ranking

Kentik

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

34th

Average Rating

9.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Protection (16th)

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 Kentik is 0.8%, up 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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ADRIANA SALDARRIAGA TOBON

Sales Manager at IFX NEtworks

Client experience and cybersecurity have improved with an easy setup

The solution is valuable for client experience, especially in the financial sector. The most important feature is cybersecurity. The pricing is good, but the functionality is the most important aspect for clients. The solution is easy to deploy and requires only one person to set up, making it easy and quick. Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives.

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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

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

Pros

"Monitoring operational efficiency is easy."

"Overall, the ease of use and the fact that it meets client expectations are major positives."

"I am able to do a lot of work on the visualization end to create different visualizations and different ways to get information out of it."

"The drill-down into detailed views of network activity helps to quickly pinpoint locations and causes. All the information is there."

"Overall, I would give Kentik nine out of ten stars."

"The most valuable features have been anything around traffic engineering: being able to determine the source or destination of a surge of traffic, whether it's DDoS-related, or a customer just happened to have a sudden uptick in traffic. Being able to tell where that's coming from or where it's going to enables us to do things based on that."

"The most important feature is cybersecurity."

"The most valuable feature is being able to pull traffic patterns; to and from destinations. We're able to understand where our traffic is going, our top talkers from an AS set, as well as where our traffic's coming from."

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"I like the fact that I can aggregate multiple interfaces into a single graph. It allows me to quickly the summary of traffic for multiple devices which is helpful."

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

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

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

"Whether it is a down network switch or a down router, we can get back online faster for the customers."

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

"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."

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

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Cons

"I believe they're already working on this, but I would love for them to create better integrations from network flow data to application performance — tracing — so that we could overlay that data more readily. With more companies going hybrid, flow logs and flow data, whether it be VPC or on-prem, matched with application performance and trace data, is pretty important."

"In recent months, I've noticed that while the industry is trending towards AI, Kentik has room for improvement in this area."

"We had faced some issues during an outage and were not able to get the desired results from Kentik tools. It took time to resolve these issues, which is why I give them eight points."

"I would like to see them explore the area of cost analysis."

"I've checked out the V4 version of the interface and it's still a little bit clunky for me to use. I still go back to the old interface. That's definitely one that they still need to work on. It doesn't seem like everything that you get in the V3, the older interface, is there. For instance, I was trying to add a user or do the administrative tasks in V4, and I couldn't figure out where I was supposed to do that."

"We asked for a way, regarding the potential networks that exist, to hook Kentik up with external tools like peering DBs to correlate things together and see what we can do... This is all in the [next] beta now."

"They're moving more in a direction where they are saying, "Hey, here's information that you may be interested in or may a need," before the question has to explicitly be asked. Continuing to move in that direction would be a good thing."

"Sometimes, the tool has complications, so we must deal with the additional support from the tool's end."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"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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Pricing and Cost Advice

"We have an annual contract with Kentik that we renew each year for a set number of licenses. We also have some burstable licenses which we can spin up and spin down, and those are paid as they are used."

"The tool is cheaply priced."

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

"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 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."

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

10%

Educational Organization

10%

Energy/Utilities Company

10%

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Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kentik?

I would say Kentik's pricing is not cheap. From my perspective as part of the technical team, I would not categorize it as expensive, but I know it is not cheap.

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What needs improvement with Kentik?

There's always room for improvements and better relations when using any kind of product. We faced some issues with Kentik UI and alerting, which we asked them to fix, and they succeeded. They have...

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What is your primary use case for Kentik?

We are using Kentik mostly for synthetic tests, and from one last year, network monitoring as well. We are using it for inter DC BGP tests and server monitoring as well.

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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

Kentik's AIOps Network Traffic Intelligence platform unifies network operations, performance, security, and business intelligence.

With a purpose-built big data engine delivered as public or private SaaS, Kentik captures a high-resolution view of actual network traffic data and enriches it with critical application and business data, so every network event or analysis can be tied to revenue & costs, customer & user experience, performance & risk.

Kentik

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

Pandora, Yelp, Neustar, Box, University of Washington, Zoom, Tata, and Cogent.

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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