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 supports Kubernetes and cloud monitoring platforms."
"It seems to be very stable. We have not had any outages attributed to the product."
"The deployment configuration and everything is simple. It is not that complicated."
"We were quite happy with the easy installation process and how quickly we received a good overview over all of our web applications."
"The most valuable feature is the workflow, which helps you to easily have an overview of the infrastructure that you are analyzing, without having worked with it previously."
"Automatic instrumentation of new services and technology without the need to install specific agents or modules."
"We like the alerting feature. For example, my applications are going out on some thresholds. So I get alerts, according to the thresholds I set. I get that data via emails as notifications."
"It is a very good APM tool. There is a lot of thorough scanning of services and applications. It has got great monitoring features."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"The solution is easy to install and use."
"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."
"If you're dealing with troubleshooting network, voice issues, or network operations, having a tool like Wireshark to dive into packet details is important. The initial setup is straightforward. Anyone starting out or looking to deploy it on your personal PC or machine can do it easily."
"The usability is worse than it used to be."
"There is still a bit of redundancy in Dynatrace."
"The flexibility when it comes to integrating with other tools is very low."
"Session export for offline analysis, like it was in AppMon, would be also nice."
"The dashboard could improve."
"One thing I'm missing and that is the JMX from the MBeans, it's missing completely."
"The AI is not that intelligent and there are different places where it could be even more automated."
"As we move into using more AWS native architectures, it should support everything that we want to do. We don't want to adopt another tool."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"DNS could be improved."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Big trace files (more than 1,000,000 packets) can be slow, but then you can use "TraceWrangler" (also free) to help with slicing and dicing the data."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"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."
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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