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)."The initial setup was straightforward."
"SolarWinds has improved our organization because whenever a device is down, we get an alert."
"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."
"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."
"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."
"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."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"I would like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities."
"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."
"Technical support needs improvement."
"The pricing is expensive."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
"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 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."
"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."
"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
"DNS could be improved."
"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"Big trace files (more than 1,000,000 packets) can be slow, but then you can use "TraceWrangler" (also free) to help with slicing and dicing the data."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th 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 Zabbix, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, SolarWinds NPM and Fortinet FortiSIEM, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and Observer GigaStor.
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