Compare Performance Navigator vs. Statseeker

Performance Navigator is a sophisticated graphical tool for PCs that focuses on analyzing performance and modeling capacity across diverse platforms such as IBM i, AIX/VIOS, Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX workloads hosted on IBM Power Systems, Oracle, and HP servers. This tool efficiently gathers historical performance data with minimal impact by securely transmitting information from collection services, NMON, and/or SAR to the Windows client on a nightly basis, ensuring that system history files are consistently updated. Users can benefit from an extensive array of graphs, tailored reports, and features that aid in performance evaluation, server consolidation, and system upgrades. One of the standout features is the "What If" functionality, which enables users to simulate various scenarios to assess the effects of capacity changes on server performance, thereby enhancing capacity planning accuracy. Furthermore, Performance Navigator excels in rapid problem identification, allowing users to receive detailed summaries of system problems in less than two minutes, which greatly aids in troubleshooting efforts. This robust support for multiple platforms makes it an invaluable tool for IT professionals.

Statseeker is a powerful network performance monitor solution. It's fast, scalable, and cost-effective. Statseeker requires only one server or virtual machine to be up and running in minutes. It can also discover your entire network in under an hour without any significant impact on your bandwidth availability. It can monitor networks of all sizes, polling upto one million interfaces every sixty second, and collecting network data like SNMP, ping, NetFlow (sFlow, and J-Flow), sylog and trap messages, SDN configuration, and health metrics. Statseeker performance data are never averaged or rolled up. This eliminates the guesswork when it comes to identifying over- and underestimated infrastructure, root cause analysis, capacity planning, and other tasks. Statseeker's complete data retention means the in-built analytic engine can accurately detect anomalies in performance and forecast network behaviour months in advance. This allows network admins to plan and perform cost-effective, preventative maintenance, instead of fire-fighting problems as they occur. Statseeker's dashboards and out-of-the box reports allow you to troubleshoot and fix problems in your network before users are aware.