We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NPM and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"Network performance is the main issue clients are facing. SolarWinds checks if a node is down, and we can set thresholds for performance metrics. For example, we set it up to get an alert automatically if a value is over 80 percent. It has a full dashboard that covers CP, hard disk, and node monitoring."
"This has helped us to monitor the availability of our routers, switches, servers, and virtual environments."
"The product is lightweight in terms of memory use, requiring only 10 megabytes or less."
"The product is scalable."
"SolarWinds NPM has a colorful UI and many easy-to-use features. It does not need to be configured as much and is also easy to install."
"This solution offers a very good view of our network and allows us to effectively monitor performance."
"The alerting and usage tracking notifications on disk space capacity, network and processor utilization."
"The stability is fantastic."
"The product is simple to implement."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"I find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark. The tool is also user-friendly."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"Time: A worldwide deployment can be confusing for dispersed users with non-local times. Each node should have a local time (with summer offset if appropriate) & each user should view & report in their local time."
"There isn't support available to us as they don't offer support in our country."
"Robustness of network element mapping tool could be better"
"If they did some type of synthetic monitoring, it would have been better."
"Currently lacks integration with SMS services."
"It would be nice if SolarWinds could have a polling engine on the site that would collect the reporting and then manage everything itself."
"It would be good to have high security."
"Better offline license management. I’ve had to get in touch with customer support several times simply to remove an expired license from our NPM servers."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."
"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."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"Whenever we select one of the packets, in terms of the number of bytes, for example, there are three planes, and in the detailed plane, I have to count the number of bytes manually."
"Its user interface was a little less friendly. They can make its user interface a little bit more friendly. It is for technical people, and most of the technical people would be able to figure it out, but it would be good to improve its user interface. They can maybe build artificial intelligence into it. Currently, it takes a lot of manpower to analyze and dissect all the data."
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SolarWinds NPM is ranked 4th in Network Monitoring Software with 147 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. SolarWinds NPM is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NPM writes "High-level, comprehensive, and proactive monitoring in a user-friendly interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". SolarWinds NPM is most compared with Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, ManageEngine OpManager, ThousandEyes and HPE OneView, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, Colasoft Capsa, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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