SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."

"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."

"For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature. It has a good response time. We have been using this solution for many years, and we don't have any problem with this solution."

"I like that it is able to monitor multiple devices and it's vendor-agnostic."

"The solution's most valuable feature is its traffic analysis."

"It provides proactive monitoring, rather than waiting for applications to go down due to heavy bandwidth or latency."

"The performance analysis is a valuable feature. With the performance analyzer, we can see the realtime monitoring, the realtime performance, and historical performance on specific components like virtualization storage, CPU, servers and network equipment."

"The bandwidth indicates the utilization of the devices; if any issue occurs, it triggers an alert for me."

"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."

"I find Wireshark a very useful tool. Its best feature is that it allows me to deeply understand what's going on at the packet level, as well as any adverse signatures that I can analyze. When I need to create an IPS rule, I need to check the traffic deeply to get more insights about the actual traffic, what's the name of certain flags, etc., and I'm able to do all that through Wireshark. The tool is also user-friendly."

"The solution is easy to install and use."

"The most valuable feature is the traffic gate, which shows which IPs are getting more bandwidth or traffic."

"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."

"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."

"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."

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

"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."

"The solution needs better log management and log coordination with tools."

"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."

"The licensing model of SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is always an issue for users because competitors offer unlimited and perpetual licenses, and SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's model is quite costly compared to other brands."

"I would like to see more training videos and additional material for learning how to use this solution."

"I would like to see more artificial intelligence capabilities."

"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."

"SolarWinds' technical support is ok, but it could be faster and more knowledgeable."

"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."

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

"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."

"Wireshark is restricted when any sort of encryption is involved, such as XSL encryption or DLX."

"DNS could be improved."

"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."

"Big trace files (more than 1,000,000 packets) can be slow, but then you can use "TraceWrangler" (also free) to help with slicing and dicing the data."

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

"For our environment, we pay approximately $25,000 USD yearly."

"We pay yearly, and we are happy with its price."

"The pricing is really good."

"The solution's licensing is high-priced."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"I don't have information on the licensing cost for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because it's bundled with another SolarWinds solution. My organization has seven different models and pays for the license yearly. My organization also had to deploy additional pollers, but the cost wasn't very expensive, though I can't give the exact numbers."

"The licensing for this solution is based on the number of nodes."

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced."

"It's free."

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

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

"Wireshark is an open-source product, so it's free to use."

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

"The solution is open source so is free."

"Wireshark is free software, so you can download it and use it for free with no licensing fees."

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