Wireshark Reviews

Name: Wireshark
Brand: Wireshark
Rating: 5 (61 reviews)

Vendor: Wireshark

4.5 out of 5

61 reviews
98% willing to recommend

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Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.

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Wireshark is the #4 ranked solution in top Network Troubleshooting solutions. PeerSpot users give Wireshark an average rating of 9.0 out of 10. Wireshark is most commonly compared to Dynatrace: Wireshark vs Dynatrace. Wireshark is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 14% of all views.

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PrathmeshShinde

Teaching Assistant at University of Colorado Boulder

May 19, 2023

Wireshark is one of the best and most popular network management or monitoring tools. Whatever traffic is going from your Internet, you can use the solution to make a plugin into that. You can take a replica of that, and from layer one to layer seven, you can check how the packet is loading and…

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Rajendra Thakur

Incident manager at Cisco

Jul 25, 2022

It's a tool that we use to capture the network and if there is any lag or if there are packet drops. It's a very useful tool. We are using it to monitor any network depreciation. For example, suppose there's a call going on between two IP phones and one person says that I cannot hear you. There's…

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DonniUgalde

Senior I.T. Systems Engineer at Pro Techs MSP

Mar 18, 2024

I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated. It would have been easy to hit a drop-down and select a filter. If I only wanted to look at DCP, UDP, or IP, it would be easy to filter it out. Advanced network knowledge is required to get a lot out of the tool. However, it's very easy to install and deploy. It would be nice if there were some handheld Android devices with a Wireshark-specialized application that would allow us to mirror a Cisco port. Then, we can just plug into the port and click the green start button, and it will start ingesting the packet capture. Then, we won’t be using a laptop. The only downside is that we must have a laptop and connect a network cable. Some new laptops don't have network ports, so we have to get another adapter. Having an all-in-one device, like NetAlly or Fluke, and some of their network devices would be cool.

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Wireshark mindshare

As of June 2024, the mindshare of Wireshark in the Network Troubleshooting category stands at 15.2%, up from 14.2% compared to the previous year, according to calculations based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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Key learnings from peers

Last updated Mar 23, 2024

Valuable Features

"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"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."

Room for Improvement

"The solution’s user interface could be improved."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."

Pricing

"Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved."
"The tool is free."
"Wireshark is open source and gives great value and functionality to the network investigation."

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