SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"The product is a great experience to use and I never experienced any problems with this software application."

"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."

"It allows us to pinpoint which protocol is overloading the link."

"I find this tool very helpful in identifying the top traffic paths from source to destination, and determining which routes are consuming the most resources."

"For managing the traffic, it provides you a response about whether the traffic is down, up, or heavy, which is a very powerful feature."

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

"Overall, for my use cases, this product is very good and I recommend it."

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

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

"Wireshark is a dynamic software that has developed and adapted to the latest technology advancements and network challenges."

"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"It gives us the ability to pinpoint problems and to communicate network problems with software and hardware vendors."

"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."

"It is free, easy to use, getting better with every release."

"The solution is easy to install and use."

"It has good basic features."

"This solution would benefit from having more security-based communications between the actual devices and the software itself."

"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."

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

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

"The pricing is expensive."

"SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer could improve its flexibility and integration with AI to provide analytics beyond just showing up/down statuses and traffic volumes."

"Technical support needs improvement."

"I would like to see better customization capabilities."

"The only thing that I don't like is sometimes there is an update, and something that I was using is either no longer there or it has changed."

"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks."

"Great scalability, but they are beginning to sacrifice ease of use for complexity."

"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."

"Can be difficult for non packet heads to understand"

"Wireshark is also used for hacking which is a security breach."

"It would be better if they offered a hybrid version like My Cloud Control."

"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."

"We have licenses for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. In terms of pricing, its license is not that expensive versus other tools such as HP."

"Licensing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is paid yearly, and there are no additional costs that you need to pay apart from the standard licensing fees because you don't need to purchase another solution to make SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer work. Pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is more expensive than other solutions."

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

"SolarWinds' pricing structure is the primary reason why some customers opt for another solution such as ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. In NTA, you are charged per port, meaning that if you have a 24-port switch you will be charged for 24 individual nodes. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, on the other hand, charges per switch, such that if you add a switch, the entire switch will count as one single node."

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

"Pricing for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is very high. I have a customer that needs the solution but doesn't have the budget for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because the problem is that you can't use the solution only. You have to buy requirements such as the SolarWinds NPM first, and some companies don't have the budget for all the required components and modules. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can cost up to $10,000, and some customers don't have that budget. Another product has all the modules that SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer has, with a very low price, that can be a replacement, which is ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. PRTG is another solution that can replace SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer."

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

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced."

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

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

"It is free to download and install. It runs on multiple platforms, so how can you go wrong?"

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

"It is free."

"I am using the free version of this solution."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"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."