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."Nagios XI is stable."
"The Script Module in Nagios is really easy to use and is really cost efficient."
"The solution has a lot of plugins and scripts integrated with it."
"It's a monitoring agent. It's designed to do one thing. Its most valuable feature is its monitoring."
"Nagios is stable and it's easy to use the monitoring software, which is why we chose this product."
"Since this is an open source technology, if we are capable of writing the plugins in any scripting language, this product allows us to monitor anything we want."
"The most valuable feature of Nagios XI is customization. We can customize based on our requirements. We can do modifications and implement a lot of scripts. Additionally, it is easy to use."
"It's great for monitoring IT services infrastructure."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"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."
"It is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"The product does not have SAP monitoring."
"The Configuration Wizard needs improvement, because not all vendors are present."
"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."
"I would like a much easier GUI so that I can delete events and logs, which will free up a lot of space."
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The product could be optimized to improve the administrative user experience via the Nagios Core Configuration (NCC) GUI module."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"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."
Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th 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 Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Icinga and SCOM, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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