We performed a comparison between Wireshark and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Auvik, Wireshark and others in Network Troubleshooting."The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."
"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."
"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."
"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."
"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."
"It has good basic features."
"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."
"The product is very stable."
"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Having a more customizable interface and dashboard would be an improvement."
"Zabbix could improve when it comes to large-scale use cases. Additionally, the inventory could be better when connecting to other solutions, such as ServiceNow. There show to be better integration with other platforms and storage."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"The user interface could be better."
Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Wireshark is rated 9.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, Colasoft Capsa, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI.
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