We performed a comparison between Wireshark and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Auvik, Wireshark and others in Network Troubleshooting."The session-level filtering features are valuable."
"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."
"It has good basic features."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it."
"I like the filtering feature as we can filter data easily. This feature is also available in tcpdump, but it's a simple piece of software. Wireshark is more advanced and has many features. It allows you to filter a lot of things. The output can be filtered easily. The most important feature is colorization. If I say, "Okay, this particular SMB protocol in red, it will show me red." It's easy to identify that protocol or capture data."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"The initial setup depends upon the basics. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"The Wireshark search function shows green for a correct search and red for an incorrect search. If there were a way to provide a description about what a search - and the similar ones which are available - can do, while a person is typing it, it would make the product easier to use and simultaneously decrease the learning curve."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"Big trace files (more than 1,000,000 packets) can be slow, but then you can use "TraceWrangler" (also free) to help with slicing and dicing the data."
"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Wireshark is rated 9.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM.
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