Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"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."

"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."

"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."

"Wireshark is a good tool to start with network analyzing and packet capturing."

"The solution is easy to install and use."

"The product is simple to implement."

"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."

"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."

"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system.​"

"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."

"It's the best solution. Great. I would rate the overall solution ten out of ten."

"We have found that Zabbix is more easy to use than other applications."

"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."

"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."

"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

"Wireshark is similar to an OS defense tool, meaning that it runs on an OS such as Ubuntu and Fedora, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with Windows or if it's a straightforward process to run it on Windows. Right now, my team needs to run Wireshark from a dongle to use it, so it's an OS-dependable tool, and that's an area for improvement. I was unable to use Wireshark on Windows, and I couldn't capture it, as I'm unsure how to configure the wireless card into monitoring mode on Windows. The process was straightforward on Linux, but it wasn't the case on Windows OS. It seems Wireshark isn't compatible with all OS. For example, you can analyze the log, and you can analyze it on the Windows server, but you can't do a capture in Windows. Configuring Wireshark for Windows isn't as easy as configuring it for Linux."

"I wish the filters were a little bit more prepopulated."

"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."

"The initial setup depends upon the basics. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics."

"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."

"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."

"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."

"This product needs to improve the UI."

"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."

"I'm using the free version of Zabbix, and I'd like to see more customization options, especially for setting trigger thresholds."

"The product could be more secure and more stable."

"The initial setup could be complex if you don't have templates. If creating templates from scratch, it's quite difficult, but if you are using already pre-created templates and setups for your needs, it looks very good."

"Look and feel."

"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."

"It is an open-source solution."

"Wireshark is free of charge, and there's no license involved."

"It is free."

"This is an open-source product that can be used free of charge."

"Wireshark is open-source and free of charge."

"It's a stand-alone tool. If there is a commercial license for it I am unaware of it."

"The tool is free."

"Wireshark is open source and gives great value and functionality to the network investigation."

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."

"It is reasonable."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

"There are no licenses."

"This solution is open-source and free to use."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."