We performed a comparison between Wireshark and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Auvik, Wireshark and others in Network Troubleshooting."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."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"Packet-capture files can be hard to use due to their size. Wireshark has a tool called tshark that can parse the files with out opening them so that you can take large captures, say 2-10GB, and return only relevant information."
"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 solution is easy to install and use."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."
"The initial setup depends upon the basics. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"DNS could be improved."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The stability could be better."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"It could be more stable."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."
Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Wireshark is rated 9.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM.
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