We performed a comparison between Wireshark and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about NetAlly, Wireshark, Auvik and others in Network Troubleshooting."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."
"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."
"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."
"The initial setup is simple."
"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."
"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."
"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."
"The feature to incorporate Voice over IP (VoIP) incidents into network traffic analysis is valuable. Capturing voice or SIP communication allows for examination of interactions between SIP clients and SIP servers. This helps the team investigate or analyze issues related to call center servers and operators."
"The solution is stable."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."
"In terms of customization and integration, we have more flexibility. We can automate configurations, define deletion rules, and customize based on the needs. The client interface allows for further configuration, making it quite comprehensive."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"Zabbix is good for discovery."
"The pricing of the product is reasonable."
"The most valuable feature is monitoring."
"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."
"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."
"Wireshark gets stuck when it is a larger file."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"DNS could be improved."
"I would like better control of bandwidth from the service provider."
"Its user interface was a little less friendly. They can make its user interface a little bit more friendly. It is for technical people, and most of the technical people would be able to figure it out, but it would be good to improve its user interface. They can maybe build artificial intelligence into it. Currently, it takes a lot of manpower to analyze and dissect all the data."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"Zabbix is not easy to configure, and upgrading is also an issue."
"My company wanted to do an exercise command to access IT from Cameroon. They wanted to access an FSS to a second host with second equipment that was on another coast but it is not possible on Zabbix to do it. They want to directly access from the front-end of Zabbix to access a prompt in Zabbix to an access terminal. In the front-end, there is no way to do that. That would be an important improvement."
"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."
"Documentation terminology could be improved."
"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"The event correlation could be better."
Wireshark is ranked 3rd in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Wireshark is rated 9.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Wireshark is most compared with Nagios XI, SolarWinds NPM, ClearSight Analyzer, Colasoft Capsa and Microsoft Network Monitor, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Nagios Core.
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