SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"I rate the support in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer as 10 out of 10 because whenever I open a tech ticket, they respond instantly, and their engineer is well-equipped to resolve the issues."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"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."

"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."

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

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

"The support is excellent."

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

"The session-level filtering features are valuable."

"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."

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

"Wireshark's best features are that it lets us see what traffic is in the network and what data should be encrypted."

"It's easy to troubleshoot issues because there's a large online community."

"It helps in analyzing if something looks suspicious, such as a brute force attack or scanning from somewhere."

"The GUI is easy to use."

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

"The tool itself is very complicated, so training is required to handle it effectively."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to the traffic generated by the analyzer and the analysis of that traffic."

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

"They should work on the configuration of the Log Analyzer feature."

"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."

"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly. You can see applications such as Facebook and YouTube, but SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer needs to have more visibility into more applications. Currently, SolarWinds fails to detect more powerful applications, such as Zoom and Teams. If SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer can recognize every application and be able to report on each in terms of bandwidth, then that would be good. This is what I'd like to see in the next release of the solution."

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

"The product is great but I wish there were more of an emphasis on the command line tools."

"The speed of the Internet could be improved, especially its performance."

"Its user interface was a little less friendly. They can make its user interface a little bit more friendly. It is for technical people, and most of the technical people would be able to figure it out, but it would be good to improve its user interface. They can maybe build artificial intelligence into it. Currently, it takes a lot of manpower to analyze and dissect all the data."

"Wireshark's UI isn't easy to handle and doesn't have as nice a view as Omnipeek."

"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."

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

"A room for improvement in Wireshark is its ease of use for beginners. It could be better. Another room for improvement in the tool is for it to provide more details about the traffic load. At the moment, Wireshark is adequate for me, so there isn't anything I'd like added to it in its next version."

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

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

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

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

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

"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."

"The pricing is reasonable."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."