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."Enables me to proactively understand the user experience on our site."
"I'm also involved on the practical side, putting in all the automation, that automation platform. To have a tool like Dynatrace, where I don't have to work out for hours how to configure and set up alerts and monitoring - especially in a solution that is not completed yet - it's not only a major time-saver, but I know going forward that it will be able to learn how the system operates. Day one, we're getting all of that stuff for free, out-of-the-box."
"Dynatrace shows the customer path, common errors on desktop and mobile, and allows us to achieve faster page loads."
"The user experience allows us to be able to gauge customer experience and understand the performance impact of our platform."
"If you look in the APM sector, it is a very nice package to install."
"It helps us get to the resolution quicker, and potentially the root cause, and at least understand what is happening for future identification."
"Dynatrace has great training available. It is easy for everybody to use. Anybody can go out to YouTube, watch a video, and figure out how to use the piece that they need."
"End-to-end visibility of the applications, since we have them instrumented. Understanding where the hotspots are in the applications."
"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."
"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The product is simple to implement."
"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"I would like them to add serverless capabilities, because everyone is going there."
"The user interface needs to be improved."
"I'd like to see the UI a bit more polished. For example, I saw a demo of the dashboards here at the Perform 2018 conference. There was a table of these widgets, but they're not sorted alphabetically and there's, like, 50 of them. So if you want to find your widgets, you're of scrolling up and down. So small features, being able to search for widgets, that things are more categorized; just a bit more focused on the user experience."
"There is still a certain amount of technical skills needed to be able to understand what you are seeing on it. You also need a large amount of technical or infrastructure skills to understand how and where to install it."
"The user interface is complicated, but recent web versions are getting better all the time."
"The products or company go through a rebrand/renaming about once a year, which creates some confusion with our customers."
"Documentation is slightly in error as far as directory set ups and guidance. We came to our own solution for distributing the disk loads."
"Mainly navigation needs improvement. It is easier to follow a flow. Following the flow of the admin now is not easy."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"The Wireshark search function shows green for a correct search and red for an incorrect search. If there were a way to provide a description about what a search - and the similar ones which are available - can do, while a person is typing it, it would make the product easier to use and simultaneously decrease the learning curve."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"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."
"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."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 341 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th 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 Nagios XI, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa and LinkSprinter.
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