We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Troubleshooting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The capability of handling and monitoring with SNMP and working with the SNMP traps is much better than other products."
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature is the auto-discovery, which is nice because you don't have to do anything to add a new component."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"Discovery: Scheduled, on-demand, synchronized with eHealth."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The most valuable features of DX Spectrum are the comprehensive alerts."
"The integration point."
"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."
"I use the filters very often, to determine what type of traffic I am looking for. The use of filter allows traffic to be segmented so that a value can be looked at individually apart from the other traffic."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"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."
"It is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"From the users perspective the looks and feel of dashboards of Spectrum would be easier to use and for understanding as APM will be in 10.5 version which we saw in CA World."
"Make it easier to certify devices."
"We want to make our own choice for the AIOps solution and do not want to be forced to use the Broadcom OI solution by default."
"If they could interact with the MIBs of vendors better, and have a lot more pre-loaded ones, that would be amazing for us right now."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"We would like the product to be developed so that it doesn't rely on internet access for installation. We would like to see all of the components required to be integrated into the installer."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"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 solution has a steep learning curve. There are so many filters and features that are frequently being updated, it takes research, experience and familiarity to be able to use them. It could be a lot more user-friendly."
"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."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"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."
DX Spectrum is ranked 6th in Network Troubleshooting with 115 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor. See our DX Spectrum vs. Wireshark report.
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