We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The most valuable feature of SolarWinds NPM is the performance monitoring to see the memory, and CPU utilization."
"As we look to add more servers to our virtual environment and to understand the impact, the solution allows us to dig into the historical charts related to capacity planning."
"The most valuable feature of this solution is the monitoring capabilities."
"The most valuable feature is the graphical user interface."
"SolarWinds is reasonably priced."
"We had some interfaces where the SFP Ports were having some problems after a while. We found which of the SFP Ports was having the error and changed it, so the bandwidth become okay."
"It is scalable."
"The other valuable system is the DSS (decision support system). If there's a fault in the network, SolarWinds is basically capable of rectifying and resolving that problem on its own without any intervention from an IP assistant or administrator."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The dashboards for this solution could be improved. We would like to divide the dashboards to give a clear view to our management team to show what we have and what deficiencies exist in our network."
"The solution is not always good with new features, so it's take a long time."
"Complex and overly detailed setup."
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"SolarWinds NPM needs to increase its elements. One polling engine can only support 10,000 elements then it becomes slow. There are limitations even if you have the full SLX version license."
"The solution could improve in many areas, such as the marketing and description of the products, providing areas of improvement, cloud capabilities, and being able to be more streamlined with the current integration points with other applications."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"The reporting is good, but I want it to be a little easier when creating custom reports. The reports are all on the website now, but it takes some know how to get some to display the way you would like."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"The only thing that I don't like is sometimes there is an update, and something that I was using is either no longer there or it has changed."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"Wireshark is similar to an OS defense tool, meaning that it runs on an OS such as Ubuntu and Fedora, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with Windows or if it's a straightforward process to run it on Windows. Right now, my team needs to run Wireshark from a dongle to use it, so it's an OS-dependable tool, and that's an area for improvement. I was unable to use Wireshark on Windows, and I couldn't capture it, as I'm unsure how to configure the wireless card into monitoring mode on Windows. The process was straightforward on Linux, but it wasn't the case on Windows OS. It seems Wireshark isn't compatible with all OS. For example, you can analyze the log, and you can analyze it on the Windows server, but you can't do a capture in Windows. Configuring Wireshark for Windows isn't as easy as configuring it for Linux."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and Nagios XI, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Colasoft Capsa, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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