We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"This solution gives us important information about the utilization of protocols, particularly in terms of how often they are used."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time. We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution."
"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."
"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"The bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."
"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."
"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 is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"Technical support could be improved with quicker response times."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."
"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"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."
"A room for improvement in Wireshark is its ease of use for beginners. It could be better. Another room for improvement in the tool is for it to provide more details about the traffic load. At the moment, Wireshark is adequate for me, so there isn't anything I'd like added to it in its next version."
"There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain."
"I would like better control of bandwidth from the service provider."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."
"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."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and Observer GigaStor.
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