We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"Nagios XI helps us monitor the bandwidth of the internet connection, HTTP, DNS, active directory services, and exchange data availability. We have multiple servers to monitor databases, availability of servers, and ping."
"I can monitor a phone on a desk to very big servers of any company."
"BPI: It allows defining peripherals to map business criticality for efficient monitoring, as required."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"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."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"It is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Improve the documentation, examples, and best practices, therefore users can understand how to do things."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"Nagios XI can improve network and hardware monitoring, these parameters should be simplified to allow usage for monitoring. Additionally, if there was automatic reporting it would be helpful."
"The reporting part should be made simpler. While we can obtain all the reports we need, we always have to create work-arounds to get them."
"The reporting structure could be more streamlined."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"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."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"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."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, SCOM and Icinga, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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