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 helps our organization identify potential problems by doing thorough analysis of systems which integrate with one another."
"Capability to focus on root cause problems."
"A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."
"The best part of Dynatrace is that the tool is very lightweight and very easy to install."
"It gives you a great level of detail into whatever the issue is: Using troubleshooting and getting to the root cause."
"The most useful features are cloud monitoring, application monitoring, and alert notifications."
"One of the key things with Dynatrace is that they are very open to influence on product development side. So, we've influenced them fairly heavily on development and capabilities for Citrix and DC RUM. They've given us integration and support components around some odd technologies that we've got, and they have always been very open and accommodating to going after and developing capabilities around the stuff that we are looking for."
"One of the features that sets this product apart from its competitors is that it generates a solution."
"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."
"The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should."
"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 most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"The initial setup is simple."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"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 needs a dashboard for cluster events in general, and for Kubernetes specifically."
"As the product is evolving quickly and product features are added on a monthly basis, a more transparent roadmap would be more than welcome."
"AppMon is lacking the AI that can be found in Dynatrace Managed."
"Network monitoring is lacking and could be improved."
"It requires manual intervention to uninstall the cloud agent from servers you want it removed from."
"It would be great to have Synthetic automatically retrieve what the customer sees on his side."
"It needs more dashboards like AppMon."
"The thing that is preventing us from moving forward with Dynatrace right now is that we can't tag our customer traffic with a customizable tag. All of our students have a unique identifier and in AppMon we tag that and we can search by it very easily and it's very useful. But in Dynatrace, you can't yet customize and find people like that, so that's really preventing us. I heard that it's being worked on but I'm not sure when it's coming out."
"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."
"The solution has a steep learning curve. There are so many filters and features that are frequently being updated, it takes research, experience and familiarity to be able to use them. It could be a lot more user-friendly."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
"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."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 340 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd 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 Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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