We performed a comparison between IxChariot and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Wireshark, Auvik and others in Network Troubleshooting."Implementing IxChariot is very easy and user-friendly."
"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"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."
"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"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."
"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."
"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."
"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."
"The graphical user interface needs to be improved."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."
"I would like better control of bandwidth from the service provider."
"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
IxChariot is ranked 9th in Network Troubleshooting with 2 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. IxChariot is rated 8.0, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of IxChariot writes "A vast solution with user-friendly features and reasonable pricing". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". IxChariot is most compared with LinkRunner, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Microsoft Network Monitor.
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