We performed a comparison between SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Darktrace, Vectra AI, Auvik and others in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)."With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."
"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."
"What the network team found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it helps them to troubleshoot or analyze the issue. For example, traffic that comes from our location: India, goes to the US, so for the network team to analyze where the traffic comes from and where it is directed, and whether the packets are being dropped, they use SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. The network team also likes that through the solution, they can analyze the complete traffic utilization and how they're going to use it. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is user-friendly. The team finds it comfortable to use."
"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."
"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."
"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."
"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."
"What I like about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is that it's useful for analyzing traffic. It also has an application visibility feature that lets you control applications."
"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 solution is easy to install and use."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."
"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."
"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."
"It has good basic features."
"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."
"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."
"As people always complain about the pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, it's an area for improvement in the solution. People find it expensive. Another area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is support, as it could be better."
"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."
"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."
"Customer Support is quite complex."
"I would like to see better customization capabilities."
"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."
"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."
"It is difficult to scale this solution."
"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."
"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."
"DNS could be improved."
"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."
"There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain."
"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."
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SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is ranked 6th in Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) with 34 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is rated 7.6, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer writes "Displays traffic visibility and efficient traffic flows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is most compared with ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Zabbix, SolarWinds NPM and Plixer Scrutinizer, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer and Rapid7 Metasploit.
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