We performed a comparison between PRTG Network Monitor and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."The single dashboard is a valuable feature."
"We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The real-time monitoring and alerting are its most valuable features."
"The email notifications are helpful, and the dashboards are user-friendly for people with little network monitoring knowledge."
"One of its valuable features is the fact that it handles multiple operating systems... And I like the fact that it tells me when things are about to fall over, which means I can preempt it and not have to wake up at three in the morning to fix it."
"The solution provides us response times to issues."
"The bandwidth monitoring is a very attractive feature, it can tell you the bandwidth utilization while it is attempting to connect to the host for feedback."
"The technical support seems to be quick, clever, and has a comprehensive knowledge base online, which is fantastic."
"The sensors and remote probes are phenomenal. We use them for all of our global sites. The problem with our global sites are that they are all VPNs. If the link goes down, you can't monitor other solutions, as it just goes off the grid. Having remote probes allows them to still carry on and get the information that we need when it comes back up, sending the information to us."
"The initial setup was easy. We didn't have any issues with the process and everything rolled out smoothly."
"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."
"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."
"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."
"It has good basic features."
"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."
"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."
"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 ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."
"The technical support needs improvement."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"This product can be improved by updating the net flow interface. The one that is in place works – I can get all the information I need from it – but it is a little bit clunky."
"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."
"Performance-wise, PRTG Network Monitor still needs improvement because a large number of SNMPv3 queries reduces tool performance."
"Mostly, this software has sensors for devices to monitor specs and you can build or develop or modify various sensors, according to your company's needs. But you may need to do that with coding or plugins or with the support of Paessler AG, the manufacturer."
"Sometimes, it is difficult to drill down further to get information, e.g., if we saw spike in traffic, then we would want to drill down and find out what is causing that spike in traffic."
"We would like more cloud native sensors for AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, etc. A lot of businesses are moving in that direction, so having something where we can pull performance stats out of these cloud services would be great for us."
"The automation should be improved."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve the price."
"This product needs to improve the UI."
"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."
"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."
"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."
"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."
"The average person would probably find Wireshark hard to use. When I first installed it, I was overwhelmed by all the data it was shooting out. It doesn't make sense until you start doing some research and figure out what everything means. It isn't the most user-friendly tool. It just provides so much information."
"We would like the product to be developed so that it doesn't rely on internet access for installation. We would like to see all of the components required to be integrated into the installer."
"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."
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PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews while Wireshark is ranked 4th in Network Troubleshooting with 61 reviews. PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2, while Wireshark is rated 9.0. The top reviewer of PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Wireshark writes "User-friendly with an easy setup and a nice interface". PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and ManageEngine OpManager, whereas Wireshark is most compared with Zabbix, Nagios XI, Colasoft Capsa, SolarWinds NPM and Rapid7 Metasploit.
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