Colasoft Capsa vs. Statseeker

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Colasoft Capsa
Score 9.0 out of 10
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Colasoft Capsa is a network performance monitoring and protocol analyzing tool. Capsa provides core monitoring features, as well as automated diagnostics and packet decoding. Colasoft offers a limited free version of the software.N/A
Statseeker
Score 7.0 out of 10
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Statseeker, a Techniche product, is a network performance monitoring solution used by private, Fortune 500 and S&P companies, and G20 governments around the world. The solution is designed to deliver instant, granular-level visibility of an entire network and history.N/A
Pricing
Colasoft CapsaStatseeker
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Colasoft CapsaStatseeker
Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
Colasoft CapsaStatseeker
Network Performance Monitoring
Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of Product A and Product B
Colasoft Capsa
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Ratings
Statseeker
7.9
1 Ratings
4% below category average
Automated network device discovery00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Network monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings8.01 Ratings
Alerts00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Network capacity planning00 Ratings6.01 Ratings
Customizable reports00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Hardware health monitoring00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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User Ratings
Colasoft CapsaStatseeker
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Colasoft CapsaStatseeker
Likelihood to Recommend
Colasoft
Capsa is highly recommended to be used in small dense areas of a network where it makes sense to be able to run analytics off of a mirror port to gain insight into traffic trends. It is a costly product to install in branch locations, and requires a decent spec hardware to run appropriately
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Techniche
Statseeker is an excellent choice to monitor a small, medium or large network. It uses SNMP to monitor switches, routers, appliances and really anything that has SNMP. The reports and output you can get from the system are invaluable. The speed of the system compared to other monitoing systems is great. Overall an excellent system.
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Pros
Colasoft
  • Robust Application. Able to handle traffic that most businesses will throw at it.
  • Easy to use. Easy to setup captures and filter down to specific traffic types.
  • Relatively cheap for what it's able to accomplish.
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Techniche
  • Extremely fast and responsive.
  • It can poll huge amounts of data quickly.
  • Excellent reporting features.
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Cons
Colasoft
  • Needs options to scale to 10Gb/s networks. The cutoff for performance looks to be around 3Gb/sl
  • Needs API access to trigger capturesl
  • Needs Agents for remote capturesl
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Techniche
  • The user interface could be improved.
  • Support can take some time to respond as they are based in Australia. However, they may be moving to the US.
  • More dashboard customization.
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Support Rating
Colasoft
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Techniche
Support is very good, however, they have been based out of Australia so you have to deal with the time difference. Once you get them they are excellent. I have heard they are shifting some of the company to the US so that should help with support.
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Alternatives Considered
Colasoft
Colasoft performs more like the traditional wireshark as opposed to other solutions that tend to focus on graphs instead of giving you the raw data. I personally prefer the raw data, and then the ability to build graphs upon this (which Capsa can do). This allows for quicker analysis and makes it easier to relate to.
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Techniche
Both are similar, but I feel Statseeker is more feature-rich and the user interfaces much much faster than NPM. The UI is not quite as good as NPM, but I believe the slimmed-down UI is what allows for such fast query speeds.
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Return on Investment
Colasoft
  • While the product doesn't detect malware, it has helped track down malware infected machines by using data from other applications to run filters to look for known traffic destinations for that malware. For me this is a huge ROI since malware can be the great unknown.
  • Relatively cheap compared to the feature set.
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Techniche
  • Great visualization of problem areas.
  • It helps speed up problem resolution.
  • Great capacity planning.
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