Statseeker vs Zabbix comparison

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

"The monitoring provided by this solution helps us to track down and solve issues."

"This solution provides us with a quicker response in troubleshooting."

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

"The most important for us is how fast this solution is, as well as the granularity that you can get to, such as per-minute statistics."

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

"The most valuable features are scalability and reliability."

"We are a smaller enterprise, but we're watching approximately fifteen-thousand switchboards with no problem at all."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."

"Zabbix has high scalability. I would rate it a nine out of ten."

"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."

"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."

"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."

"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."

"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."

"I'd say the interface could improve a little bit. I find with new users, I tend to have to spend a bit of time walking them through how to use the interface. It could be a little more user friendly."

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

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

"This solution would be improved with better automatic discovery for ping-only devices."

"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."

"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."

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

"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."

"The only issue we have had with Zabbix is when we decided to make an update or upgrade."

"​I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes.​"

"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."

"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."

"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."

"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."

"Its UI needs to be improved a little bit more so that an end-user is also able to handle it. I can handle it, but others should also be able to handle it in a better way. It becomes complex when we are growing and need to add proxies. We need more scalability features and documentation for different use cases. A lot of articles are available, but they need to be in proper documentation. For example, when you have thousands of servers that have to be monitored in different regions of the world, there should be some kind of documentation to describe how you can create proxies and add them. Sometimes, when you are using the database, it can get overloaded. When the network is growing, the number of transactions becomes very high, and the database gets overloaded. There should be information about how to reduce the load on the MySQL database, which is what Zabbix is using. The market is growing a lot, and it should be enhanced for a lot more things. We are currently bringing enhancements at our end for different use cases. For example, when dockerization is going on, how can we check the logs inside the Dockers. We should also be able to monitor and check the number of logins and add features such as SSO login and two-factor authentication as a protocol. These are the security features and concerns that we have to deal with. Currently, we are developing modules to add features to Zabbix, but they should also work on these features."

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

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

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

"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."

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

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

"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."

"This is an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."

"I use the tool's free version."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."