We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Datadog, Dynatrace, New Relic and others in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability."It reduces time and provides detailed info, showing problem correlation, and a single point of diagnosis."
"Dynatrace helps us to improve overall performance and allows us to detect the root cause of an outbreak on our systems."
"We have used PurePath data (response times) to improve and tune application performance."
"It has given us one simple dashboard to monitor all of our servers and web applications."
"Ease of problem detection and alerting, visual timeline, and user-sessions are some of the best features of Dynatrace."
"We know exactly which line, which method, and which program needs fixing, so we directly go to the right developer and the guy comes in fixes it."
"The speed and problem resolution."
"One of the most valuable features of Dynatrace is that it offers good visibility. It's better than other APM tools. You're not required to use a different technology when you have Dynatrace because it will work whether you're hosting it on Windows or Linux."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"Packet-capture files can be hard to use due to their size. Wireshark has a tool called tshark that can parse the files with out opening them so that you can take large captures, say 2-10GB, and return only relevant information."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"It does not have mature enough dashboards."
"Nginx monitoring service did not work out-of-the-box, so we had to tinker with it for quite some time."
"If there was something that could be done at a local developer's station, something like, "Hey, here's a hint, this thing looks like it might not be optimized," or the like. I think more development features, to hedge that performance would be good."
"I'd like to see native support, because we're launching native apps in multiple countries so we really want to have a really good feel for how those apps are going and how well they're performing, if there are issues."
"I'd like to see self-healing and I'd also like to see more automation. It looks like is that's the direction Dynatrace is heading in, in their Dynatrace product."
"Regarding features, it would be good if there would be some features regarding app security."
"Monitoring asynchronous code requires manual instrumentation (most of the time)."
"I would like to see single pane monitoring."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"DNS could be improved."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and Broadcom Network Flow Analysis.
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