We performed a comparison between Auvik Network Management (ANM) and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Network Troubleshooting solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I found the ease of setup to be a helpful feature. The appliance was quite quick to get running. The fact that Auvik is a cloud-based solution, as opposed to an on-prem solution, meant there was one less thing to worry about. I didn't have to configure another device or provision a server and support it myself."
"Auvik has decreased our mean time to resolution. It's easier to find the devices on the network and pull out the information. Of course, the SNMP is also good to get the logs. It helps in the network debugging or if we have to find any problems."
"It's very intuitive. It does a good job of showing you individual nodes on the network and their relative positions to one another, with pertinent details on each node, all in one location."
"The best features are the alerting and monitoring."
"The monitoring and management functions of Auvik are as easy as they can be for the functions they do. It's definitely the easiest product I've ever used."
"The stand-out feature is the automated config backup on networking devices. This automation is handy in a bind when a machine crashes, and you need to pull the config out of Auvik."
"I like the fact that it's easy to set up and learn our network. I've used some other systems where it takes a lot of time and effort to manage the monitoring system, so you get what you put into it. The nice thing about Auvik is that you put the credentials in, put the agent on the network, and it just does its thing. It sets up alerts that you would most likely turn on anyway without even having to do it. If you add another new device to the network, it detects it and sets alerts up for that device. With the other systems that I've used, I had to manually add those devices in and manually set the alerts for new devices. I like that it's an almost set-it-and-forget-it sort of system."
"Automatic network mapping, alerting functionalities, and TrafficInsights are valuable."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"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 find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark. The tool is also user-friendly."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The GUI is easy to use."
"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."
"If I am an administrator, then I have to maintain, clean, and label that environment. Auvik's utility in that regard is cumbersome. It is hard to find where certain things are configured. Also, it is sometimes hard to figure out why Auvik is doing what it is doing."
"When it comes to monitoring, Auvik provides a single integrated platform, but I feel it could do more things. If it could facilitate device upgrades, that would be great."
"The user interface is not intuitive."
"I've had some issues where the solution repeatedly discovers a device I don't want to manage and alerts me about it. This is probably me not using the tool correctly, or it could be Auvik recognizing the device in different ways."
"The only area that I dislike about the solution is the lack of exportability."
"It would be cool if they came out with an app, but running the browser isn't bad."
"I'm still undergoing the trial period. My only complaint is that I still don't understand what the license cost will be. More transparent pricing would be massive."
"Auvik's notifications could be better."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"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."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"I would like better control of bandwidth from the service provider."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
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Auvik Network Management (ANM) is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 131 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. Auvik Network Management (ANM) is rated 8.8, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of Auvik Network Management (ANM) writes "Enables us to get on top of issues before they become an outage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". Auvik Network Management (ANM) is most compared with PRTG Network Monitor, LogicMonitor, Meraki Dashboard, SolarWinds NPM and Kaseya Traverse, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Broadcom Network Flow Analysis. See our Auvik Network Management (ANM) vs. Wireshark report.
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