We performed a comparison between OptiView XG [EOL] and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Wireshark, Auvik and others in Network Troubleshooting."It is a very valuable tool. It goes out and does a discovery, which is a great process of it. You could have something like a rogue DHCP server, and it will identify it, and then you can see to which switch port it is connected. It is quite an impressive tool. I really liked it because you didn't have to install an agent on anything. It would just go out and do its discovery. For me, that's great."
"Gives us the ability to see our network."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The solution is easy to install and use."
"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."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."
"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"I would like a built-in tap feature which doesn't interfere with the network, and it allows you to see what is happening there."
"Its price can be improved. Their support can also be improved a little bit. In terms of features, it did everything I wanted it to do. With more features, I would have to start installing network agents or something else, and I don't want to have to install anything. This was the value for me about this device."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
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OptiView XG [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Network Troubleshooting while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. OptiView XG [EOL] is rated 8.6, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of OptiView XG [EOL] writes "A valuable, impressive, and portable product that saves time and has great scalability and stability". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". OptiView XG [EOL] is most compared with , whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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