We performed a comparison between DX Spectrum 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.
"The most valuable feature is the ability to put health checks in place not only for the infrastructure but for some of the services that are on top of the infrastructure."
"Spectrum is great for root cause analysis. It has excellent correlation event management. Spectrum's stability and scalability are also amazing."
"The containerization of different objects was very helpful in building an org structure. Being able to separately manage your MSP clients with separate visibility was also helpful."
"The most valuable features have been the interface and the ability to do equipment management."
"It's a good tool. It's simple to do the configuration."
"The most valuable feature is the event correlation mechanism."
"The presentation layer is pretty simple and straightforward."
"Offers a lot of functionality."
"The product is simple to implement."
"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 most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"I like the filtering feature as we can filter data easily. This feature is also available in tcpdump, but it's a simple piece of software. Wireshark is more advanced and has many features. It allows you to filter a lot of things. The output can be filtered easily. The most important feature is colorization. If I say, "Okay, this particular SMB protocol in red, it will show me red." It's easy to identify that protocol or capture data."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature. Such a feature is pretty helpful for an ongoing forensic investigation or when there is a potential insider threat that you are trying to investigate. It allows you to see the network activity of the users you are investigating. It also gives you more visibility into your network. It was very easy to set up. There is a lot of information out there on Google and YouTube about how to use it. There is also community support. If you have any trouble, it is pretty easy to find an answer online. You will have to do some digging only if you have a very specific use case."
"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"Huawei devices are not properly supported, and there are incompatibility issues related to certain protocols."
"I think the management or configuration of devices needs some improvement."
"Integration with some other tools, and integration with some Network Packet Broker, need some improvement."
"I would suggest improving the web GUI to improve the device monitor configuration and to improve or to integrate the new tool for reporting."
"It's not a great performance management tool. Its reporting capabilities are not very good at all."
"Its visualization can be improved. It doesn't have a very advanced GUI. It is very basic and simple, but it does work."
"For my use case, incident coordination was an area of improvement. The internal software engine for coordinating outages could use improvement because sometimes, we used to get false alerts for unrelated devices. They did a really good job of trying to make sure that you got one major alert and any of the subsequent devices downstream were just additions to that, but occasionally, the engine wouldn't properly catch the right things, and we used to get a flood of alerts."
"DX Spectrum is stable. However, now and then there are some issues, but overall it is good."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
"DNS could be improved."
"The solution has a steep learning curve. There are so many filters and features that are frequently being updated, it takes research, experience and familiarity to be able to use them. It could be a lot more user-friendly."
DX Spectrum is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 14 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 2nd in Network Troubleshooting with 12 reviews. DX Spectrum is rated 8.4, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of DX Spectrum writes "Provides granular access control, highly scalable, and helpful for monitoring the entire network infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". DX Spectrum is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, DX NetOps, Zabbix, Zenoss Service Dynamics and IBM Tivoli NetCool, whereas Wireshark is most compared with SolarWinds NPM, PRTG Network Monitor, Zabbix and Nagios XI. See our DX Spectrum vs. Wireshark report.
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