Nagios Core vs Statseeker comparison

Nagios and Techniche are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Nagios is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.5, while Techniche is ranked #61 with an average rating of 7.0. Nagios holds a 2.8% mindshare in NMS, compared to Techniche’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 80% of Nagios users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Techniche users who would recommend it.

Nagios Core

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80% willing to recommend

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93% willing to recommend

Nagios Core

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Statseeker and Nagios Core are network monitoring solutions. Statseeker stands out for its user-friendly interface and advanced reporting, while Nagios Core's open-source framework and customization provide greater value for users prioritizing flexibility.

Features: Statseeker offers real-time data analytics, efficient network monitoring driven by advanced alerting systems, and rapid scalability. Nagios Core provides extensive plugin support, flexibility in diverse network environments, and adaptability through customizable features.

Room for Improvement: Statseeker's premium pricing could be a barrier for smaller enterprises, its integration with non-standard systems may need enhancement, and the user interface might require updates for modernization. Nagios Core may require ease of use improvements and streamlined deployments for less technical users, and an enhanced default interface.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Statseeker offers a streamlined deployment process with comprehensive customer support and dedicated resources for integration. Nagios Core, although less intuitive, benefits from a community-driven support system with extensive documentation suitable for technically skilled teams.

Pricing and ROI: Statseeker involves higher initial costs, justified by its tailored solutions and ROI in expansive networks. Nagios Core, being open-source, minimizes upfront costs despite potential investments in custom development.

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Categories and Ranking

Nagios Core

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

10th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (9th)

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

61st

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Nagios Core is 2.8%, down from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Statseeker is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Nishith-Vyas

Tech Lead at STL Digital Limited

Valuable reporting and alert system with room for PDF export improvements

The NetEase reporting structure needs improvement, especially the availability report, which is weak. It should be generated automatically with minimal human intervention and should be exportable as a PDF. Besides that, an integrated PDF export feature for reports is necessary. Also, the alert mechanism and graphing mechanism need to be integrated properly into Nagios Core. Currently, integrating these requires advanced Linux knowledge. Integration of more visualization tools like Grafana and Prometheus for better graphing and visualization is also recommended.

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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

"We use the product to monitor server applications."

"Nagios monitors our servers, so we know if anything goes wrong and can solve the problem before it happens."

"Nagios Core is stable."

"Dashboard provides monitor of total assets."

"It is fairly easy to set up, and we can monitor pretty much everything we want to."

"The application performance monitoring feature is valuable."

"I would rate the overall solution ten points out of ten."

"The most valuable feature of Nagios Core is it allows us to develop and add as many plugins as we want."

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"The most valuable feature is alerting."

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

"Key features for us are custom reporting, 95th Percentile, and trend lines."

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

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

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

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

"The most important feature for us is the interface statistics, because our customer normally asks us for bandwidth utilization reports. Statseeker has very descriptive transmit and receive information."

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Cons

"The core version is no match for the XI version."

"We're using the free version, which limits us in terms of the things that we can do. If we had the paid version, a lot of our issues would probably go away. For example, we can't isolate instances that are being built or updated with the production ones. When they're being built, on Nagios, they're showing in red. It'd be nice to be able to partition those off until they're all green, and then we can bring them into the environment. This is probably because we've got the free version and not the paid version. If we went for the paid version, it would probably allow us to do exactly what we want to or remove the restrictions that we have, but if we are able to isolate instances in the free version, it would make life much easier."

"The dashboard should be improved."

"Nagios Core could improve by adding a user interface. If you want the user interface you have to use Nagios XI."

"The UI is a little outdated and graphics could be displayed in a better way."

"Bandwidth monitoring is the pain point for me because Nagios Core does not monitor bandwidth effectively like Cacti does."

"The alerting mechanism in Nagios Core could be improved."

"Would benefit from aggregations if a particular server goes down."

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"The main issue I've seen, in the last six months to a year, is when I upgrade I seem to be hitting bugs. The upgrade won't go smoothly and I have to engage support. These things happen when you upgrade, it's not the end of the world, but from a stability point of view, the only time I've so far, is during upgrades."

"We haven't seen an ROI."

"It doesn't do absolutely everything and it will require some additional software or hardware support to be a complete single solution."

"I would like to see fully automatic updates so that our version is always current."

"The user interface needs a great deal of improvement."

"It would be very nice to have the Cisco ACI option included in the regular license."

"I would like to see the solution incorporate diagnosis of the workstation."

"It would be nice if I could easily select individual interfaces."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Nagios Core is an open source solution, and there are no licensing fees."

"The Nagios Core (PNP4Nagios + Core) is free and can be setup by Netadmin within a few hours. The only additional cost is the cloud server."

"I would rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten."

"We are using the free version of Nagios Core."

"The solution is expensive."

"Nagios Core is a cheap solution."

"The enterprise version has technical support. The version we are using is free."

"Nagios Core is free to use."

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

"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."

"We pay somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000 yearly in licensing fees."

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

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

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

"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 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."

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Nagios Core?

What I like about Nagios Core is that it helps me ensure everything is running smoothly by checking the status of hosts and services.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Nagios Core?

Nagios Core is a free and open-source product. We don't charge for the product itself, but we charge for the man-hour costs related to installation, configuration, ongoing operation, and maintenance.

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What needs improvement with Nagios Core?

The dashboard should be improved. It's very simple. I don't have a very clear or specific suggestion. You can change the skin of the dashboard, however, it's good for me.

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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

This is IT infrastructure monitoring's industry-standard, open-source core. Free without professional support services.

Nagios

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

Sample Customers

Airbnb, Cisco, PayPal, FanDuel

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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