Statseeker Reviews

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. Secondly, it can retain data for up to around two years.

The new version will provide us with useful features. Previously, it only allowed us to monitor devices individually. However, in the newer versions, we can set up a dashboard to monitor the status of an entire site, which provides more insight into any issues across devices, such as delays or packet loss. This functionality is essential for us, especially as SD-WAN users. There are complementary packages in the latest version to help monitor SD-WAN. It will help to explore other monitoring tools to monitor our SD-WAN network.

Retaining all data is the most valuable feature. Statseeker can generate reports or dashboards providing an overview of network interfaces. For instance, it can identify the most utilized interfaces across the network, aiding in robust network management. Additionally, it offers reports on interfaces experiencing issues such as CRCs, enabling troubleshooting to address potential network disruptions.

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.

I have been using Statseeker as an end user for two years. Our company has been using it for 10-12 years. We are using the V5.4.4 of the solution.

The solution is stable. It doesn't cause any issues. Its uptime is great. We never complained of slowness or ineligibility. It's solid and stable. We were not rushing to upgrade because the current setup works. We were happy with the current software version, but we are considering an upgrade for more features.

I rate the solution's stability a ten out of ten.

If you pay for more licenses, then you can scale it easily. Around 20 users are using this solution.

I rate the solution’s scalability an eight out of ten.

The customer support from Statseeker is excellent. They are very responsive whenever we ask for assistance setting up a filter, query, or other feature. Their responsiveness and helpfulness are greatly appreciated.

Positive

The solution is cost-effective compared to other tools in the market, especially considering the large number of network elements. Most tools require licensing per device or substantial server resources to maintain the environment. For instance, our team explored another marketing tool four or five years ago and found a significant disparity in the setup fees and annual costs for the same number of devices compared to Statseeker.

The initial setup is easy.

I rate the initial setup a seven out of ten, where one is difficult, and ten is easy.

The solution doesn’t take a lot of manpower.

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 upcoming release will offer even more features.

I rate the product's pricing a seven out of ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive.

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.

Our primary use case for this solution is network alerting.

This solution helps us to track down problems faster. Whether it is a down network switch or a down router, we can get back online faster for the customers.

When we are alerted as to something going down, it could just be power related or a circuit from the ISP. After finding out that it is down, five minutes later I might get an alert to say that it’s back up. This saves me the hassle of having to contact the customer.

The most valuable feature is the alerts that happen when something goes offline, such as a network switch, router, or wireless controller. We also get alerts for temperature issues and IDFs.

I would like to see the solution incorporate diagnosis of the workstation. A lot of times, the Network Engineer will blame the network first, even though it might be a desktop problem. For example, the drivers might be outdated, the memory is horrible, or the CPU is overwhelmed.

I would like to see all of the reports put up in a nice, GUI format, that shows whether devices are up or down, and the severity of any problems.

This is a very stable solution.

This is a very scalable product that we could make even more use of. It could, for example, monitor all of our wireless access points, but we don't use it for that. Potentially, we would be overwhelmed with this much information. We use this solution mostly for switches, routers, and controllers.

I have not spoken with their technical support, as it is another person on my team who administers the solution.

We use other solutions to handle different devices. For example, we run SolarWinds and Network Reporter. We use Cisco Prime to monitor and report on our wireless access points. Cisco Prime also reports on switches and routers, but it would be nice to consolidate everything down to one or two products.  

As our enterprise continued to get larger, we needed a solution that could support and inform us on a lot of devices. This is why we implemented this solution.

I did not perform the initial setup, but my understanding is that it was straightforward.

We handled the implementation and deployment in-house.

I would recommend this solution because I like the alerting functionality for systems that are down or up.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use this solution for polling and interface utilization. 

This solution is used by our network operations center to identify down interfaces. 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 historical data and the fact that it doesn't average it when it saves it.

The user interface needs to be made more intuitive.

The stability of this solution has been great.

With respect to the scalability of this solution, I find that it is good.

I have not dealt with them directly, although one of my colleagues has, and it sounds like it's been good.

We did not use another solution prior to this one.

The initial setup of this solution is straightforward.

I can't say what we would have saved, in terms of money, but it's been a productive tool for the purpose that we bought it. It has been good for us.

We considered SolarWinds, but my counterpart was familiar with this solution from a former job and brought it in.

This is a solid and reliable solution, but it's not intuitive with respect to some of the setup and some of the selection for reports. Eventually, you can work through it.

I would rate this solution a seven and a half out of ten.

We use this solution for monitoring the status of all network devices.

We monitor links, bandwidth utilization, and device CPU and memory utilization. We generate reports of the top ten utilization links, which are helpful for acting proactively.

The Statseeker polling engine is very efficient and it does not miss any outage.

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

Other valuable options are efficiency, availability, and vendor support.

This solution is very user-friendly.

Building a server is very easy and in the case where it crashes, it can be made ready in a couple of minutes. Restoring data is very fast and simple.

I very much like the outages and statistics report, as it is helping to be proactive.

I would like to see the addition of a network configuration management feature. It would take online backup configurations, deploy configurations to active nodes, compare configuration changes,  provide detailed hardware reports, and generate the configuration compliance reports. 

The inclusion of configuration management features and SIP links would improve this solution.

A single server can handle hundreds of thousands of interfaces.

We did use another solution prior to this one, but we switched because Statseeker is very efficient and very user-friendly.

The cost, pricing, and licensing are better compared to other solutions.

Our primary use case for Statseeker is for network monitoring.

It is quicker and faster responding to troubleshooting.

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.

In terms of network availability, we have a faster response to outages and thus, faster remediations in uptime.

It's fast and easy.

The solution's network visibility is very in-depth and granular. I can look at one-minute data points and it does not roll data up over time.

There is a little bit of room to improve in the alerting section to give some more options there. It's all I can think of right now off the top of my head.

The solution also has very good stability.

The solution has very good scalability.

Their technical support is very good. They solved every issue we've had.

We didn't really have a previous solution. It was kind of a home-grown solution, so Statseeker was easy. It was inexpensive. It fit the need and was very fast to get implemented.

The initial setup was straightforward.

We may not have a solidified ROI, but my engineers' time to troubleshoot was reduced so they can focus on other, more important issues.

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

We didn't really have a short list. It was just one or two. I think the other company doesn't exist anymore. We chose Statseeker because of the ease use, fast deployments, and simple interface.

It's a great product and if you're looking for network monitoring, I would highly recommend it.

The biggest lesson I learned is that having one-minute granularity that doesn't roll up over time is incredibly important if we want to do any historical troubleshooting.

I would rate Statseeker as nine out of ten, not a ten only because it wasn't free.

Our primary use case is for polling and interface utilization. The solution helped us to monitor our network availability. Now we're more alert to what's going on. 

It's used by our network operations center to identity down interfaces.

It also allows us to predict capacity on WAN circuits to plan when we'll need the next upgrade. The solution has made things more visible for the network admin, so this solution has been good for them. It has also helped with monitoring so that we're alert to what's going on. 

The most valuable feature is the historical data that it offers. The solution's granularity in terms of network visibility is good. 

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

The stability of the solution has been great.

The scalability is good. 

I haven't had to deal with customer support personally. One of my counterparts has. It sounds like it's been good.

My counterpart was familiar with Statseeker from a former job. He brought it in.

The initial setup is straightforward.

We did the setup ourselves directly.

The next company on our shortlist was SolarWinds.

On a scale from one to ten, I would rate this solution a seven and a half. It's been solid and reliable. I love the historical data and the fact that it doesn't average it when it saves it.

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

Our primary use for this solution was to monitor devices. I was the Statseeker administrator before we switched to a new solution. I do, however, still go back and use it.

This solution allowed us to monitor bandwidth usage within the data center.

The most valuable feature is alerting.

I like the dashboard because it is simple and fast. The granularity is really good. I’m impressed.

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.

Technical support for this solution is pretty good. The group we called was based out of Australia.

The initial setup for this solution was straight forward. They have good technical support and a good website that is clear.

We had some assistance from the National Statseeker team.

We did see ROI while we were using the solution.

Statseeker is pretty cheap.

We evaluated PRTG by Paessler AG before settling on this solution. We have since adopted a new solution, although I do still use Statseeker.

I like this product and would recommend it to a colleague at another company. It is fast, simple to use, pretty cheap, and they give you support.

I would rate this solution an eight out of ten.

We primarily use this solution for educational content.

This solution allows us to have fewer employees.

It reduces the complexity of our network monitoring. We are better able to manage all of our components.

We make use of Cisco ACI support, we do this to make quotas.

It has affected the workload of our network admin team. It is awesome. We have fewer employees.

Our network availability is increasing and it does reduce costs, but I do not know by how much.

The most valuable features are scalability and reliability. Network visibility is good. 

Technical support needs improvement.

Stability is excellent.

The scalability of this solution is good.

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

The initial setup of this solution is complex.

We had assistance in implementing this solution.

We only evaluated Cisco and HP when researching this solution.

This solution is not perfect.

Always try to minimize the effort by the support teams to keep the solution alive.

I would rate it a seven out of ten.

We use this solution to control bandwidth congestion, and also for the recovery of unused data network ports.

It has somewhat helped the workload of our network admin team. The recovery reports have streamlined our process, and diagnosing certain congestions is easier.

This solution provides a deeper investigation into certain circuit congestions. It’s a much quicker way to drive into troubleshooting congestion issues.

The most valuable feature is the recovery of the unused data ports. We're able to recover more expensive ports on our access line devices. For example, we can run a report that dynamically pulls out all of the ports that haven't been used in ninety days. We can then recover those for new and upcoming projects. We don't have to buy additional hardware in order to expand. There are a few other companies that do this, but Statseeker and AKIPS are probably the two that do it the best.

This tool is fairly easy to use.

Network visibility is fantastic. Statseeker has worked out really well for us.

If it had more detailed NetFlow information then it would be far better. This would allow us to find the top talkers and congestion situations. It would be helpful to be able to drill down quickly and identify a top talker to pull them off and streamline a congested circuit.

A lower cost, overall, would be fantastic.

The reporting functionality can be cleaned up a little bit. Some of the reporting operations happen on the right side of the pane, where you move from right to left, which is less intuitive than it should be. A top-down approach would be much more simple. Right to left is less natural because in English we read from top-down, left to right.

This solution is stable.

The scalability is adequate.

Technical support for this solution is adequate.

We have used several different solutions.

The SolarWinds solution is probably the most encompassing and probably the closest thing that we can get to a single pane of glass. However, they do not have unused ninety-day reports or circuit utilization. Also, their NetFlow is a tad bit lacking.

The initial setup is straightforward. It's a fairly intuitive tool to set up, and adding a network device is pretty simple.

We deployed the solution ourselves.

We're able to recover ports from our system and defer costs and new hardware, which has been somewhat beneficial, but how much cost avoidance has actually helped us streamline is not something that we can capture really well.

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.

AKIPS offers pretty much an exact feature set to Statseeker but is significantly less expensive.

This product provides some good functionality. However, the reporting is right to left, which is less than ideal, the cost is significantly high, and the NetFlow capabilities are lacking.

My advice is to go with AKIPS, rather than this solution.

I would rate this solution a seven out of ten.

Our primary and only use for this product is for network monitoring.

The product does what we need it to do, and definitely gives us heads-up on results and issues we are having in a timely manner.

The most valuable feature — and the value of the product — lie in its delivery of day-to-day, real-time information.

The user interface could be more friendly. When I say user-friendly I mean additional windows with information on additional day-to-day statistics.

It could also benefit the user more if it had additional features for reporting.

It's really stable. We haven't had any problems with stability at all.

It's a very scalable solution. We've used it with most of our network equipment monitoring and we haven't had any performance issues or any other problems.

We previously had WhatsUp Gold which is a really cheap solution. We needed something with better analytical abilities, better reporting, generally better information, and a better interface.

It is straightforward to set up.

I have not seen a measured return on investment. It's a great product. I definitely haven't had any negative experiences with it. I definitely think it helps with day to day operations. That could be a return on investment but it would be hard to measure.

I would give this solution about an eight out of ten. It's not perfect, but it's still a good product. We definitely enjoyed using it. It's fairly simple and easy to use, and it's pretty straightforward. It gives us a lot of information that we need.