ManageEngine OpManager vs Wireshark comparison

Read 63 Wireshark reviews

4,006 Views
2,003 Comparison Views

98% willing to recommend

ManageEngine OpManager

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Download the report

Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between ManageEngine OpManager and Wireshark based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Auvik, Datadog and others in Network Monitoring Software.

To learn more, read our detailed Network Monitoring Software Report (Updated: March 2026).

Network Monitoring Software

Download the complete report

Helped 886,174 peers since 2012

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

ManageEngine OpManager

Average Rating

8.0

Reviews Sentiment

5.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (12th)

Wireshark

Average Rating

9.0

Reviews Sentiment

7.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Troubleshooting (3rd)

Mindshare comparison

While both are Network Management solutions, they serve different purposes. ManageEngine OpManager is designed for Network Monitoring Software and holds a mindshare of 1.8%, up 1.6% compared to last year.
Wireshark, on the other hand, focuses on Network Troubleshooting, holds 15.0% mindshare, up 13.3% since last year.

Network Monitoring Software Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
ManageEngine OpManager	1.8%
Zabbix	4.3%
SolarWinds NPM	3.6%
Other	90.3%

Network Monitoring Software

Network Troubleshooting Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Wireshark	15.0%
AirMagnet Survey PRO	9.8%
LinkRunner	7.2%
Other	68.0%

Network Troubleshooting

Featured Reviews

Charles A

Deputy Director at Access Healthcare Services Pvt Ltd

Reporting features improve operational efficiency while weekend support needs enhancement

Support is moderate and needs improvement, especially during weekends when technicians perform upgrades. During weekends, they need to provide more support to ensure a smooth transition. There is a call for ManageEngine OpManager to scale better in automation and AI functionality. Although the product stability is good, support enhancement is necessary to enable better planning for upgrades and maintenance activities.

Read full review

Vijay Duggal

Network Specialist at Squarepoint Capital

Provides detailed traffic analysis and helps troubleshoot issues

There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. While the solution supports sampling as fine as one millisecond, it requires a copy at that interval. My Python script allows me to achieve a granularity of up to ten microseconds, but I can't go beyond that. When dealing with provisioning on both issues, it would be beneficial if I could go down to the microsecond level, if not the nanosecond. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain.

Read full review

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The product provides intensive reports."

"The detections are fine when they work."

"This is a good general monitoring system that has all the features we require and they constantly update with new capabilities."

"You can put all of your work on there, they'll send you an email or send you a text. That functionality as a network engineer is the one I like the most. I do like the fact that we can schedule reports. That works too because that's a lot fewer spreadsheets that I have to create."

"This solution is very easy because the pricing was not that high and the setup wasn't complicated, and it was very good for our environment."

"The uptime and monitoring are valuable to us because we need to monitor the uptime of our services, the memory, and the CPUs."

"The solution is easy to deploy. It's also easy to manage and monitor the environment. Instead of being reactive, it's proactive."

"The most valuable feature of ManageEngine OpManager is the management of the virtual machine and the host machine."

More ManageEngine OpManager pros

"The initial setup is simple."

"It has good basic features."

"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."

"For example, while debugging through food issues, we can draw the graph of the data captured in the solution and see how the throughput is moving."

"Wireshark is very good for network engineers; it's free software, you can install it very easily, and there are a lot of features."

"Wireshark analyzes networks, captures traffic and decrypts information passed through the communication channels into a form that is readable and can thus be used to learn how network protocols work."

"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."

"Wireshark does exactly what I want and leaves me with no need to look elsewhere."

More Wireshark pros

Cons

"OpManager is slow but that just might be the server we have it on."

"For the implementation part, I am facing issues when configuring the business view; when I create the business view, I experience problems with the port interface and get confused about which interface is connected to which endpoint."

"We would like link monitoring included. At times we need to monitor those specific links closely."

"The storage level monitoring needs improvement. It needs storage level monitoring on the server itself. That feature is lacking right now."

"The storage level monitoring needs improvement. It needs storage level monitoring on the server itself."

"We encounter challenges in monitoring cloud services. I would also appreciate it if there was someone available to walk you through the documentation."

"The licensing model is confusing."

"The pricing of the solution is high."

More ManageEngine OpManager cons

"The product has been using the same GUI for many years."

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

"A room for improvement in Wireshark is its ease of use for beginners; it could be better."

"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."

"Its user interface was a little less friendly. They can make its user interface a little bit more friendly."

"Cannot be used to diagnose any kind of network intrusions and hacking exploits."

"One con is that this software is only an observer, not an interactive component of the network, meaning you cant change anything with it."

"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."

More Wireshark cons

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It is not really expensive; it is nominal licensing."

"We had perpetual licenses. The cost was around 36,000 for OPManager, and then you'd have the yearly maintenance fee of 2,000 or 3,000."

"The price for ManageEngine OpManager is average."

"The product is not worth the money."

"We have a standard license for ManageEngine OpManager. We purchased the license for one year and now we are upgrading it soon."

"The solution's pricing is very low compared to other products."

"The solution is highly affordable"

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."

More ManageEngine OpManager pricing and cost advice

"It's free."

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

"We're using the free version of Wireshark."

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

"It is free."

"We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved."

"I've never personally had to pay for it, making it a highly valuable internet resource that's accessible for use. While they offer some paid versions, our firm has utilized the free version for the past three years."

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

More Wireshark pricing and cost advice

See which vendors are best for you

Use our free recommendation engine to learn which Network Monitoring Software solutions are best for your needs.

See recommendations

886,174 professionals have used our research since 2012.

Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

12%

Computer Software Company

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

University

10%

Financial Services Firm

Healthcare Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	17
Midsize Enterprise	15
Large Enterprise	27

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	31
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	27

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ManageEngine OpManager?

Based on my experience and use case, the setup cost and price of ManageEngine OpManager is good. However, if it were available in both on-premises and cloud versions, it would be more reliable for ...

What needs improvement with ManageEngine OpManager?

ManageEngine OpManager could improve by adding network device control capabilities. The control feature would be more helpful for our operations. Currently, there is no feature for controlling inte...

What is your primary use case for ManageEngine OpManager?

I am using ManageEngine OpManager for network and server reliability. We have multiple locations, so integrating all location devices in ManageEngine OpManager into one single console allows us to ...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Wireshark?

Wireshark is priced at a medium range, not too high, not too low. The pricing could be more flexible, and they might make it more expensive. That said, compared to other products, it is competitive.

What needs improvement with Wireshark?

The speed of the Internet could be improved, especially its performance. Performance can sometimes be a challenge due to numerous factors.

What is your primary use case for Wireshark?

We are using Wireshark for inspecting the vertical line to know the data flow in and out of the cables. This is to determine if there is real traffic flow through the physical connections or not. A...

SolarWinds NPM vs ManageEngine OpManager

Comparisons

Compared 11% of the time

OpenNMS vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 6% of the time

LibreNMS vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 6% of the time

DX Spectrum vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 6% of the time

Observium vs ManageEngine OpManager

Compared 5% of the time

More ManageEngine OpManager Competitors

Colasoft Capsa vs Wireshark

Compared 8% of the time

SolarWinds NPM vs Wireshark

Compared 8% of the time

AirMagnet Survey PRO vs Wireshark

Compared 7% of the time

Microsoft Network Monitor vs Wireshark

Compared 7% of the time

SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark

Compared 6% of the time

More Wireshark Competitors

Product Reports

ManageEngine OpManager

Download ManageEngine OpManager product report

Download Wireshark product report

Also Known As

OpManager

No data available

Overview

ManageEngine OpManager is a network, server, and virtualization monitoring software that helps SMEs, large enterprises and service providers manage their data centers and IT infrastructure efficiently and cost effectively. Automated workflows, intelligent alerting engines, configurable discovery rules, and extendable templates enable IT teams to setup a 24x7 monitoring system within hours of installation.

ManageEngine

Wireshark is the world's foremost network protocol analyzer.

Sample Customers

Bonita, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Galaxy, Fiserv Credit Union Division, Universitas 21 Global, ERP Suites LLC

Comversion, ADP, Talbots

Network Monitoring Software