PRTG Network Monitor vs Statseeker comparison

Paessler GmbH and Techniche are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Paessler GmbH is ranked #5 with an average rating of 7.7, while Techniche is ranked #60 with an average rating of 7.0. Paessler GmbH holds a 4.3% mindshare in NMS, compared to Techniche’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 91% of Paessler GmbH users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Techniche users who would recommend it.

PRTG Network Monitor

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93% willing to recommend

PRTG Network Monitor

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 9, 2025

PRTG Network Monitor and Statseeker compete in the network monitoring category. PRTG has an upper hand in pricing and ease of deployment, while Statseeker offers significant value through its robust features.

Features: PRTG Network Monitor is renowned for its comprehensive sensor-based monitoring, real-time alerts, and out-of-the-box checks. Statseeker provides detailed network performance metrics, long-term data retention, and advanced analytics, which attract users needing deep data insights.

Room for Improvement: PRTG could enhance its analytics capabilities, expand device compatibility, and improve data retention for historical analysis. Statseeker could simplify its deployment process, improve user interface customization, and provide more out-of-the-box integrations to ease setup for users.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PRTG offers a straightforward deployment with flexible setup, making it user-friendly. Meanwhile, Statseeker, although more complex to deploy, benefits from responsive customer support. Users find PRTG easier to use but appreciate Statseeker for its attentive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: PRTG Network Monitor is noted for its competitive pricing and substantial ROI due to cost-effective licensing. Statseeker, with higher initial costs, delivers strong returns through its advanced features and scalability, appealing to larger enterprises needing robust monitoring.

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Categories and Ranking

PRTG Network Monitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

5th

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

102

Ranking in other categories

IT Infrastructure Monitoring (8th), Cloud Monitoring Software (9th)

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

60th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of PRTG Network Monitor is 4.3%, down from 4.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Statseeker is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Tochukwu Uzomba

Solutions Architect at Boch Systems Company Limited

Efficiently monitor networks across regions with seamless setup and robust feature set

PRTG Network Monitor is easy to set up. Within a few minutes, it is operational. It is an all-in-one monitoring solution without extra costs. For example, we set it up for an insurance company with branches across Africa. We are able to monitor from Lagos without installing anything in the branches, using the agentless feature. We just put in the IP address and the parameter, and we monitor from those ends. Additionally, all the sensors are very useful. Most people are interested in the bandwidth monitoring sensor to see what bandwidth the users are consuming. The pricing is affordable compared to SolarWinds.

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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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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The sensors and probes are great, nice and lightweight, they don't take up too many resources on the system. We just deploy them out and they start reporting instantly."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to span multiple technologies and multiple vendors."

"It is very flexible, and we can monitor many aspects of IT as well as ERP and CRM services. It has a very powerful interface and APIs for customization."

"It gives me a live view of the traffic on the WAN."

"The most valuable features of PRTG Network Monitor are user-friendly, and the graphical interface is good for all the network devices that are mapped in this organization. It's very easy to find reports for any devices that we are looking for."

"PRTG Network Monitor is easy to set up."

"It is a user-friendly solution."

"The simplicity is what I appreciate about PRTG Network Monitor."

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"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where you have everything right there on the screen."

"The graphics and trends are the most valuable for us."

"The solution reduces the complexity of our network monitoring because it can make my engineers do their jobs faster. The solution also reduces troubleshooting time for network administrators to pinpoint issues quicker."

"We are now able to easily track where problems are with bandwidth and port errors, rather than having to do a lot of diagnostics."

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

"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."

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

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Cons

"The automation should be improved."

"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."

"The clustering aspect needs improvement, as there is a bit of confusion about you do when hit that 5000 probe mark."

"The operations dashboard is only available in PRTG's enterprise version, but I wish it could be accessed in the standard licensing. It would also be nice if PRTG had templates for dashboard monitoring, software monitoring, etc. It can help me set up a dashboard because now we don't have a template from PRTG, so we need to create one from scratch."

"PRTG Network Monitor needs to enhance network performance monitoring."

"It probably has this already, but if it had a mobile app that would be helpful. For example, on a day like today when I'm out, if I could just fire it up and see green, green, green, green, green or red, that would be good."

"The licensing policy needs more flexibility."

"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."

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"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."

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

"I would like the ability to update the dashboard. I would also like the ability to access via an API. Then I could produce a dashboard that my C level can understand. This is just so they can go and refresh whenever they want to and see what things look like."

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

"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)."

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

"We haven't seen an ROI."

"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 pay nothing for it. Its 100 sensors have allowed us to put a magnifying glass on some systems, providing an extra layer of detail. Therefore, our outgoing is nothing and our incoming is a lot of useful data that we can react to proactively."

"It is about £4,500 for the first year, then about another 15 to 20 percent annually after that. So, we are looking at about £1000 running costs a year. When you think about how much an outage costs per minute, it's negligible."

"I'm paying something like €1000 per year for the maintenance. I've got unlimited sensors."

"We pay for a perpetual license and we have a support fee."

"We used a product called SolarWinds in the past, and its cost was high. Whereas, PRTG came in at a third of SolarWind's cost."

"PRTG is now available as PRTG Enterprise Monitor, and the price varies depending on the total number of sensors the customer buys"

"The licensing fees are billed annually and there are no costs in addition to this."

"PRTG Network Monitor is cheap."

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"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."

"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."

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

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

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

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

"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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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

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Educational Organization

47%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

19%

Retailer

University

Energy/Utilities Company

Company Size

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Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

PRTG network monitor is one of the best tool i have ever used for the monitoring. It have auto discovery option. it avoid the configuring the device in PRTG. It automatically discover the device an...

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What do you like most about PRTG Network Monitor?

The tool is integrated with our email for the alerts.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PRTG Network Monitor?

The prices are very high for PRTG Network Monitor. That's why I'm using the free100 sensor license.

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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

PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. PRTG comes with an easy-to-use web interface with point-and-click configuration. You can easily share data from it with non-technical colleagues and customers, including via live graphs and custom reports. This will let you plan for network expansion, see what applications are using most of your connection, and make sure that no one is hogging the entire network just to torrent videos.

To monitor a large IT environment, it's important to be able to scale PRTG up. Paessler PRTG Enterprise Monitor includes all the proven capabilities of PRTG Network Monitor, which are enhanced by exclusive ITOps Board for a service-oriented, central overview of multiple PRTG servers.

Paessler GmbH

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

Jameson Bank, Sidnix, RungeICT, MedicalAnimal, Truck-lite, GamingGrids, The Covell Group, Forsythn County Schools, NetMass, Musgrove Park Hospital, Lanes Health, Columbia Southern University, Vodafone, Intrust Bank

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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