We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Troubleshooting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."What I like best is the configuration management functionality."
"Allows us to have a single console/notification point, with the alarms of all the tools that we use for monitoring."
"It is easy to navigate."
"The quick notification of issues, quick alerting because timeliness is always valuable, it's very important for us."
"It has a high-quality graphical interface."
"It does correlation so instead of producing 20 alarms if a site goes down, it only creates one."
"Spectrum does such a great job of discovering our network that we have a high confidence in what our inventory is."
"Scalability is a highly rated feature of this solution. It is better than some of the other tools that I've used in terms of scalability. We scaled it to tens of thousands of devices."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The feature to incorporate Voice over IP (VoIP) incidents into network traffic analysis is valuable. Capturing voice or SIP communication allows for examination of interactions between SIP clients and SIP servers. This helps the team investigate or analyze issues related to call center servers and operators."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"The session-level filtering features are valuable."
"If the integration is simplified or improved, it will be a unique selling point in comparison to the competition on the market."
"Event correlation only works on one server, rather than on all of the servers in the same cluster environment."
"DX Spectrum could be improved by them getting rid of the Java console. It would also be better with Turkish language support."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"We have had some issues with the spec server and the high availability replication of data. It fails over well, but it does not come back very well. We get duplicated events."
"There should be a facility to integrate with other monitoring applications that are currently running in the environment."
"The GIS map feature needs to be enhanced and synced with topology views of containers and global collections."
"A better integration with the UIM, as far as being able to do root cause analysis and that type of analytics."
"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."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"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."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"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."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
DX Spectrum is ranked 6th in Network Troubleshooting with 115 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Comprehensive alerts, beneficial overall network viability, and scalability not limited". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". DX Spectrum is most compared with DX NetOps, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Cisco DNA Center and ThousandEyes, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and ClearSight Analyzer. See our DX Spectrum vs. Wireshark report.
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