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."A feature that's one of the highlights of Dynatrace is the AI. The second most valuable feature is OneAgent. Between infrastructures, applications, operating systems, you can deploy with just a single agent and can practically install and forget about it."
"Dynatrace helps to build business and non-business dashboards and the appropriate alarming on mail groups."
"We like the alerting feature. For example, my applications are going out on some thresholds. So I get alerts, according to the thresholds I set. I get that data via emails as notifications."
"This monitoring capability gives us the ability to measure the end-user experience."
"The ability to use PurePath in analytics is definitely the most valuable feature. It helps you pinpoint issues, then develop and focus them in the right way."
"The monitoring is very good."
"I am able to customize my dashboard based on the test requirement and it helps me to focus on the area that really needs close monitoring."
"I am primarily doing DC RUM, so on that side there are a lot of awesome abilities where people who can't implement an agent are able to still monitor a lot of their apps and decodes."
"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should."
"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 feature to incorporate Voice over IP (VoIP) incidents into network traffic analysis is valuable. Capturing voice or SIP communication allows for examination of interactions between SIP clients and SIP servers. This helps the team investigate or analyze issues related to call center servers and operators."
"The initial setup is simple."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"Needs a greater meta data capture."
"Even if the engine can manage a huge amount of data, requests take time to succeed."
"Addition of more statistical features, plus different time series modeling techniques, would really help for future versions."
"I do know that for the size of our organization, we're talking thousands of agents and hundreds of applications, it does get to the point where the servers themselves that house Dynatrace are at a point where, in some cases, they are just too big for one machine, since you have to have an entire application ecosystem all funnel into a single system."
"We would like to see more external tool integration, which is critical for us."
"The one thing I am really missing is the final Azure dashboard."
"We should be able to easily simplify both the charting and slicing-and-dicing of user metrics with cookies that contain customer/user information."
"Experience with relationship/account manager has been really poor, it does not seem to be the firm's priority to support their customers."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."
"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."
"The only thing that I don't like is sometimes there is an update, and something that I was using is either no longer there or it has changed."
"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 is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
"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."
Dynatrace is ranked 2nd in Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability with 342 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 Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and Broadcom Network Flow Analysis.
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