We performed a comparison between Nagios XI and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in IT Infrastructure Monitoring."The most valuable feature is the monitoring of processes."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"You want to monitor a specific metric that nobody else has? You can do it even with the most basic of scripting skills, and you can always share it with the vast community of Nagios Exchange."
"Nagios XI helped me to draw the network and check for system failures."
"The dashboard allows you to see what's going on in the overall system."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"It has good basic features."
"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"I use the filters very often, to determine what type of traffic I am looking for. The use of filter allows traffic to be segmented so that a value can be looked at individually apart from the other traffic."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"The product is simple to implement."
"I would like to be able to extend it to all of our data centers, whether they are in the cloud or not. It would be helpful if I could connect everywhere."
"The pricing has recently risen. I know they've changed what is covered under the license, however, it doesn't change the way we use it and adds nothing to our experience, and yet we now have to pay more."
"The interface could be more user-friendly."
"The way Nagios displays information isn't easy for a new user to understand. It's not intuitive enough. You need to read some tutorials or be trained to understand what it's displaying. Also, I think it needs more features to improve network visibility because there are some things you can't detect."
"I would like to see more customization in the network map because it is a bit tricky to use it."
"We often need to develop custom plugins to get Nagios to work the way we want it to work because the features we need are not always available in Nagios."
"We'd like to see more integration capabilities."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"DNS could be improved."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."
"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."
"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."
Nagios XI is ranked 8th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Nagios XI is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Nagios XI is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios Core, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and SCOM, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer, Microsoft Network Monitor and Colasoft Capsa.
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