Meraki Dashboard vs Statseeker comparison

Cisco and Techniche are both solutions in the Network Monitoring Software category. Cisco is ranked #20 with an average rating of 8.5, while Techniche is ranked #62 with an average rating of 7.0. Cisco holds a 1.4% mindshare in NMS, compared to Techniche’s 0.2% mindshare. Additionally, 98% of Cisco users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 93% of Techniche users who would recommend it.

Meraki Dashboard

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93% willing to recommend

Meraki Dashboard

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 10, 2024

Statseeker and Meraki Dashboard are competing in the network monitoring and management space. Despite Statseeker’s data granularity, Meraki Dashboard holds an edge due to its advanced cloud-based features.

Features: Statseeker offers detailed network performance metrics, real-time anomaly detection, and lightweight data acquisition for efficient insights. Meraki Dashboard provides cloud management capabilities, seamless integration with the Meraki ecosystem, and automatic updates, offering an efficient approach to network control.

Room for Improvement: Statseeker could enhance its cloud-based offerings, integrate more modern IT infrastructure features, and expand its user interface capabilities. Meraki Dashboard could benefit from more competitive pricing, improved offline solutions, and additional flexibility in deployment options beyond its ecosystem.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Meraki Dashboard features a simple deployment model with its cloud infrastructure, easing configuration and setup, and customer service is known to be responsive. Statseeker’s deployment is resource-efficient for rapid setup in traditional environments, with strong customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Statseeker is more budget-friendly with lower setup costs, offering cost-effective network insights. Meraki Dashboard incurs higher costs due to its feature set but is justified by its efficient integration and management capabilities, often presenting a high value return for investment.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Meraki Dashboard

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

20th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Statseeker

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

62nd

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Network Monitoring Software category, the mindshare of Meraki Dashboard is 1.4%, down from 2.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Statseeker is 0.2%, down from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Featured Reviews

Bilal-Ahmed

IT Manager at Fawaz

Seamless connectivity and comprehensive control over network devices

All of the features we are looking for are already in control. I think those features, which we are not currently utilizing, are already there. For example, the control for the cameras and everything else. The cameras are not connected through Meraki, but all other devices are on Meraki networks.

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Jessie Hackney

Network Engineer at West Virginia Department of Education

Simplifies monitoring and provides real-time alerts for issues we might not immediately be aware of otherwise

The product has improved our organization by simplifying monitoring and giving real-time alerts for issues we might not immediately be aware of otherwise. If we notice five devices with latency or errors, I wouldn't know that if I didn't command line into 800 devices and check every day. I can see the status on the dashboard and it just makes it easy to know where the problems are. If we didn't have that capability by using Statseeker, then it would be very complex to monitor. We'd need to have another tool or manually log into every device to try to check things. And this product just does it all for us. That streamlines and improves our workload so that we only need to have two people in our office for the network team. It improves availability. If a circuit goes down texts and email alerts get sent out. So, even if it's in the evening or we're not on premises, we'll know if something's down. We use it all the time because it really helps.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"What I found most valuable in the Meraki Dashboard is straight monitoring of the different devices, as well as the ability to easily set up VPNs, for example, both Meraki client VPNs and non-Meraki VPNs for different organizations that work with my company. I also like that the tool is a really good firewall."

"What I love most about the Meraki Dashboard are its user-friendly features."

"The user-friendly interface facilitated a quick and efficient setup process."

"Some of the features I have found valuable are the ease of access, simple configuration, and monitoring."

"Great visibility on the dashboard."

"The initial setup process is quite simple."

"The most valuable feature is knowing the wireless and switch are healthy."

"The dashboard itself is very simplified and easy to navigate."

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"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."

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

"Key features for us are custom reporting, 95th Percentile, and trend lines."

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

"The most valuable feature is alerting."

"Being able to look back historically at the uptime and downtime is invaluable."

"Grouping, Threshold/alerts, Netflow analyser, Private MIB object support are most valuable as they can provide more visibility into network performance, and for network troubleshooting."

"Summary Reports provide a quick way to identify where potential issues are. Drill-downs provide more granular details very quickly."

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Cons

"In general, how I add firewall rules is not great."

"This solution can be quite complicated to configure and manage, unless you have a technical person with specific knowledge working on it."

"I’d like the product to allow for other solutions to be integrated with the dashboard as well."

"They can improve the landing page in Meraki Dashboard. When I go into an organization, they can include a lot more infographics. They can also simplify it a bit and consolidate it. For example, if I've got five branches and I go into customer A's profile or organization, I'd like to see an infographic on the landing page providing a snippet of the entire network layout, that is, all branches in one snapshot. From there, I would like to go into the network that I want to work on or view."

"An area for improvement in Meraki Dashboard is licensing management because it's a little complex. Product licensing can be made a little bit easier through license concurrency and a more straightforward approach to applying the license to products and services."

"The wait time to speak with a Meraki support engineer is always long, but they get the job done."

"They could offer API functionality for Meraki Dashboard. It will help us develop software immediately using available solutions."

"There is a need for price reductions in developing countries, as the cost of Meraki is quite high."

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"I would like the ability to update the dashboard. I would also like the ability to access via an API. Then I could produce a dashboard that my C level can understand. This is just so they can go and refresh whenever they want to and see what things look like."

"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)."

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

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

"It would be nice if I could easily select individual interfaces."

"More private MIB object support, such as WAN optimisation performance and wireless, would be helpful."

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

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing fees are paid on a yearly basis."

"From a pricing perspective, they are still expensive."

"My view is that it's expensive, but it's the best."

"Licensing is around under 1000 pounds. The licensing is either one year, three years, five years or ten years and during the licensing, we can choose to renew it per year or per every three years. We've got a license for three years. It's about 160 or about 200 pounds each."

"The pricing for a small setup is only a few hundred dollars a year. The fee is subscription-based."

"The solution is currently the most expensive on the market."

"The Meraki Dashboard has more competitive pricing."

"The licensing fees are $180 USD, per AP, for three years."

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"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."

"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."

"We pay a yearly maintenance fee of approximately $40,000 USD."

"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."

"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."

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

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

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Meraki Dashboard?

We greatly utilize the network because we can plug it into the DNS, VPN, or equipment. It's very good. Meraki Dashboard enhances wireless network management. We appreciate its flexibility, as it al...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Meraki Dashboard?

The cost of the Meraki solution is high, which may not be affordable for smaller companies, especially in developing countries.

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What needs improvement with Meraki Dashboard?

There is a need for price reductions in developing countries, as the cost of Meraki is quite high. Additionally, it would be beneficial if Meraki Dashboard could integrate more Cisco devices such a...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Statseeker?

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 upcomin...

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What needs improvement with Statseeker?

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.

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What is your primary use case for Statseeker?

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...

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Overview

Meraki Dashboard is a comprehensive cloud-based platform that offers centralized management and control for all Meraki networking and security products. It provides a user-friendly interface, allowing administrators to easily monitor and configure their network infrastructure from anywhere. With real-time visibility, troubleshooting becomes effortless, ensuring optimal performance and minimizing downtime.

The intuitive dashboard offers a holistic view of the network, enabling quick identification of potential issues and proactive measures. It simplifies network deployment and scaling, with zero-touch provisioning and automatic firmware updates. The robust security features include advanced threat protection, content filtering, and VPN connectivity.

Meraki Dashboard also offers powerful analytics and reporting capabilities, providing valuable insights into network usage, application performance, and user behavior. With its seamless integration and scalability,

Meraki Dashboard is the ideal solution for organizations of all sizes, ensuring efficient network management and enhanced productivity.

Cisco

Statseeker is the only network performance monitoring technology to seamlessly and successfully combine speed + scale + value. Statseeker is a global provider delivering innovative network monitoring solutions for the IT enterprise and OT industrial market space. With active deployments in over 22 countries and many Fortune 100 firms, Statseeker monitors millions of interfaces in real-time. Instant visibility: Installed in minutes, polls up to 1 million ports from a single server… reduce your time to repair. Powerful monitoring: Checks every port over entire network, every 60 seconds… low network consumption bandwidth. Fast reporting: Practical real-time dashboard, reports in seconds, instant alerts… maximize your up-time. Smart data: 100% network data, original granularity, never rolled up, never averaged… tune for peak performance, control CAPEX and OPEX.

Techniche

Sample Customers

Coop eG, Peet's Coffee & Tea, Priefert Manufacturing, Century Care Management, Clifton College, Zürs Ski Resort, Capital FM Arena, MAXI Autohöfe

With active deployments in over 22 countries and many Fortune 100 firms, Statseeker monitors millions of interfaces in real-time. Some example customers include: FedEx, Optus, Verizon, California State University, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, Monash University, Texas A&M University.

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