We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."
"It doesn't cost too much."
"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"In terms of the implementation, we've actually used SAM, the server and application monitoring tools. The network configuration tools are very useful in terms of bulk upgrading switches and infrastructure. Also, the Network Traffic Analyzer was extremely useful to track down errant users soaking up bandwidth."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"It has a good syntax to put the commands in and get information out of."
"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 options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"Wireshark has a lot of features. It's a powerful tool if you're familiar with it. You can see everything on the network with it."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"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 GUI is easy to use."
"I'm expecting to see a little bit more artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms. They need a bit more sophistication in that."
"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."
"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."
"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."
"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."
"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
"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."
"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."
"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Plixer Scrutinizer, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Rapid7 Metasploit.
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