We performed a comparison between ClearSight Analyzer 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."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"What ClearSight will do is it actually maps out the conversation for you."
"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature. Such a feature is pretty helpful for an ongoing forensic investigation or when there is a potential insider threat that you are trying to investigate. It allows you to see the network activity of the users you are investigating. It also gives you more visibility into your network. It was very easy to set up. There is a lot of information out there on Google and YouTube about how to use it. There is also community support. If you have any trouble, it is pretty easy to find an answer online. You will have to do some digging only if you have a very specific use case."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"The session-level filtering features are valuable."
"The feature to incorporate Voice over IP (VoIP) incidents into network traffic analysis is valuable. Capturing voice or SIP communication allows for examination of interactions between SIP clients and SIP servers. This helps the team investigate or analyze issues related to call center servers and operators."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"I would like to see a multi-user version where you can have a launch platform and, potentially, instead of buying six licenses you buy 12 seats or something like that."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
"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 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."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"DNS could be improved."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"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."
"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."
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ClearSight Analyzer is ranked 98th in Network Monitoring Software while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. ClearSight Analyzer is rated 10.0, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of ClearSight Analyzer writes "Shows question being asked, breaks it down and it'll just show you who's not answering". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". ClearSight Analyzer is most compared with , whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, Microsoft Network Monitor and Colasoft Capsa.
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