We performed a comparison between Plixer Scrutinizer and Statseeker based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"We didn't experience any bugs."
"Plixer Scrutinizer is an affordable product. Plixer Scrutinizer is a tool that allows for customization, especially in scenarios where customers need new product features."
"The most valuable features of Plixer Scrutinizer are its ease of use, accessibility, and UI."
"One feature I found most valuable in Plixer Scrutinizer is the very extensive reporting. Reporting is very flexible, though sometimes you need a little bit of support from Plixer Scrutinizer to create custom-made reporting in a very short time. Reporting is a very strong feature of the product."
"It helps us determine what is going on with our Internet and who is hogging it all up. If we get a real high throughput or a throughput that's going over and getting dropped fairly quickly, we can tell who (or what device) is consuming that traffic."
"It shows us the saturation of the network of devices. It gives us a clear view of the flows in the network to understand, for instance, planning upgrades in the network to get an idea of what's going on the network on traffic flows. It gives us insight, for instance, on what's going on on our VPN Client. There are a lot of things where it provides very helpful information. It also gives us our security reports with quite detailed information on what's going on in the network, and whether there are data exfiltrations and so on."
"The solution helps to enrich the data context of our network traffic. It allows me to see what applications are most in use on a slightly historical basis, going back a day or week at tops. It allows me to tune QoS or traffic shaping around what's being used. It saves me from having to unnecessarily upgrade, if I don't need to."
"Visualization of the network traffic is the most valuable feature. It allows you to drill into information quite quickly."
"It catches frequent flapping of the network and provides detailed reports of outages."
"We are now able to easily track where problems are with bandwidth and port errors, rather than having to do a lot of diagnostics."
"We were having some issues with a certain site, and it was only Statseeker that showed us what the problem was."
"Summary Reports provide a quick way to identify where potential issues are. Drill-downs provide more granular details very quickly."
"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."
"This solution allowed us to track down trouble users."
"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."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"There is room for improvement around the data that they have on the website about solutions... they should have more templated solutions on their website. Going out and identifying how to do RTP performance with a Cisco router, or how to do application response times in an Arrista data center deployment was where most of the work was... They should spend some more time documenting solutions and putting together white papers."
"The visual acuity of how it presents data can sometimes be confusing. It takes a bit for people to spin up how to look at the graphs."
"For updating the Scrutinizer platform, when we have the actual data, it never happens in one day. Every time we have the data, we are obliged to install a new server in order to integrate the old data, and every time it has a problem. Most of the time, we were obliged to scrap all the data because we couldn't transfer it to the new server. So, it would be very good if they could improve this part."
"In Plixer Scrutinizer, scalability is an area with minor concerns where improvements are required."
"From what I understand it is that the solution is not very scalable in a high volume traffic environment with a large number of flows."
"It would be useful if there was a way to back up the configuration information. E.g., if you wanted to deploy a new instance or disaster recovery, you could quite easily deploy and restore the config, as opposed to having to restore all the NetFlow data. If there was just a button that said "backup config information", that would be good."
"There was a price lift because previously the product was privately owned, and now there is some external capital in the organization, so pricing could be lower, though, for Plixer Scrutinizer, there is almost no competition at this price point."
"The reporting structure, the front-end GUI, also needs some work. It needs some getting used to. It works fairly well, but it's a technical tool rather than a user tool. You have to understand the structure of the databases before you can really use it."
"Maybe they could provide a little bit more flexibility on creating custom dashboards."
"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)."
"It could use more features on Netflow analyser, such as time series graphs and a single network export UDP port and UDP forwarding."
"The user interface needs a great deal of improvement."
"The inclusion of configuration management features and SIP links would improve this solution."
"The user interface needs to be made more intuitive."
"I would like to see the solution incorporate diagnosis of the workstation."
"That user interface for selecting things needs to be a little more intuitive."
Plixer Scrutinizer is ranked 47th in Network Monitoring Software with 15 reviews while Statseeker is ranked 62nd in Network Monitoring Software with 38 reviews. Plixer Scrutinizer is rated 8.6, while Statseeker is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Plixer Scrutinizer writes "Advanced reporting runs analytics on NetFlow and provides signature-based recognition of problems in the network environment". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Statseeker writes "Simplifies monitoring and provides real-time alerts for issues we might not immediately be aware of otherwise". Plixer Scrutinizer is most compared with SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Flowmon , Cisco Secure Network Analytics, PRTG Network Monitor and ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, whereas Statseeker is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, SCOM and Fortinet FortiSIEM.
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