SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"I would rate NetFlow Traffic Analyzer's stability ten out of ten."

"As it offers enterprise solutions, it has all the essential features for business."

"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."

"For stability, I would give SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer a rating of ten out of ten."

"The integration with other SolarWinds products is good."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to look for any increases in bandwidth over time so that we can plan before it becomes critical."

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

"The most valuable feature is the alarm that is set up to trigger based on bandwidth utilization."

"Wireshark saves a lot of time, especially with network troubleshooting."

"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."

"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."

"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."

"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."

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

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

"If your network is on SolarWinds, and you notice that the traffic is bad because it says "user downloading a heavy file," it doesn't indicate which endpoint is downloading those heavy files. SolarWinds doesn't have the tools to be able to handle this kind of situation. You can just notice through your network device that the traffic is becoming overwhelming or heavy, but you cannot go inside and get more details related to the endpoint where it is happening. We would like SolarWinds to be able to handle this kind of situation and even manage the traffic inside a network from the endpoint to the network device. These would be good enhancements. It is mostly stable. The problem comes only when we want to add another SolarWinds model. SolarWinds has so many models, and sometimes when we want to add other models on the platforms that are reserved for our firm, it freezes. When this happens, we have to create a new VM for that model."

"The licensing should be more realistic so that we can adjust the number of nodes according to my needs, rather than in fixed increments."

"Currently, it shows only the top ten applications or ports in use, while the remaining data appears as 'remaining traffic,' causing confusion."

"The solution should improve its automation feature. It's quite limited compared to other products."

"Deployment needs improvement. The process is complicated, requiring attention to infrastructure settings and installation of components like the origin application server, platform, close storage, and policy agents."

"It's scalable, but it could be simplified because it's not completely easy."

"I would like to see better customization capabilities."

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

"DNS could be improved."

"It is difficult to scale this solution."

"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."

"You need good network connectivity to download during the setup, otherwise, it might take a while."

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

"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."

"Whenever we select one of the packets, in terms of the number of bytes, for example, there are three planes, and in the detailed plane, I have to count the number of bytes manually."

"The solution’s user interface could be improved."

"The pricing is really good."

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

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced."

"While the pricing is fair, it could be better."

"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 solution's licensing is high-priced."

"It is an open-source solution."

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

"It is free."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"It's free."

"Wireshark is free software, so you don't have to pay any licensing fee. Individual people can use it and then donate to Wireshark."

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

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