We performed a comparison between IxChariot and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Wireshark, Auvik and others in Network Troubleshooting."Implementing IxChariot is very easy and user-friendly."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature. Such a feature is pretty helpful for an ongoing forensic investigation or when there is a potential insider threat that you are trying to investigate. It allows you to see the network activity of the users you are investigating. It also gives you more visibility into your network. It was very easy to set up. There is a lot of information out there on Google and YouTube about how to use it. There is also community support. If you have any trouble, it is pretty easy to find an answer online. You will have to do some digging only if you have a very specific use case."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"The product is simple to implement."
"The graphical user interface needs to be improved."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Wireshark is similar to an OS defense tool, meaning that it runs on an OS such as Ubuntu and Fedora, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with Windows or if it's a straightforward process to run it on Windows. Right now, my team needs to run Wireshark from a dongle to use it, so it's an OS-dependable tool, and that's an area for improvement. I was unable to use Wireshark on Windows, and I couldn't capture it, as I'm unsure how to configure the wireless card into monitoring mode on Windows. The process was straightforward on Linux, but it wasn't the case on Windows OS. It seems Wireshark isn't compatible with all OS. For example, you can analyze the log, and you can analyze it on the Windows server, but you can't do a capture in Windows. Configuring Wireshark for Windows isn't as easy as configuring it for Linux."
"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."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
IxChariot is ranked 9th in Network Troubleshooting with 2 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. IxChariot is rated 8.0, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IxChariot writes "A vast solution with user-friendly features and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". IxChariot is most compared with LinkRunner, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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