SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"The program is scalable enough for our usage."

"I can point out the exact root cause 'why.' If there is a slowness, I can point out what was before the issue or before the slowness, what it is, and what is now."

"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."

"I rate the support in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer as 10 out of 10 because whenever I open a tech ticket, they respond instantly, and their engineer is well-equipped to resolve the issues."

"We conduct network traffic analysis for a couple of key reasons. First, we look for traffic anomalies, such as unexpected increases or decreases in network traffic within specific segments. This helps us determine if the network needs to be re-architected."

"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."

"It allows us to pinpoint which protocol is overloading the link."

"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."

"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."

"The transmission and reception issues are valuable."

"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."

"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."

"The product is simple to implement."

"Wireshark saves a lot of time, especially with network troubleshooting."

"It helps in analyzing if something looks suspicious, such as a brute force attack or scanning from somewhere."

"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."

"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."

"One area that we struggle with is the price. Because the price of this solution is so high, we are largely unable to introduce it into the local market, and only the banking sector has the means to afford it."

"The pricing is expensive."

"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."

"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."

"The plotting of the device on the map is not appropriate."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."

"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."

"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."

"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."

"This product needs to improve the UI."

"The speed of the Internet could be improved, especially its performance."

"Wireshark could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."

"I have not used Wireshark to an advanced point where I could provide a detailed opinion on improvements needed."

"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."

"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."

"The licensing for this solution is based on the number of nodes."

"For our environment, we pay approximately $25,000 USD yearly."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"The pricing is really good."

"Pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is very high. I have a customer that needs the solution but doesn't have the budget for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because the problem is that you can't use the solution only. You have to buy requirements such as the SolarWinds NPM first, and some companies don't have the budget for all the required components and modules. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can cost up to $10,000, and some customers don't have that budget. Another product has all the modules that SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer has, with a very low price, that can be a replacement, which is ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. PRTG is another solution that can replace SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer."

"SolarWinds' pricing structure is the primary reason why some customers opt for another solution such as ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. In NTA, you are charged per port, meaning that if you have a 24-port switch you will be charged for 24 individual nodes. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, on the other hand, charges per switch, such that if you add a switch, the entire switch will count as one single node."

"We pay yearly, and we are happy with its price."

"I don't have information on the licensing cost for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because it's bundled with another SolarWinds solution. My organization has seven different models and pays for the license yearly. My organization also had to deploy additional pollers, but the cost wasn't very expensive, though I can't give the exact numbers."

"I am using the free version of this solution."

"Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved."

"It is free to download and install. It runs on multiple platforms, so how can you go wrong?"

"It's free."

"It's a stand-alone tool. If there is a commercial license for it I am unaware of it."

"Wireshark is open source and gives great value and functionality to the network investigation."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"The tool is free."