SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"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."

"With SolarWinds, we are now able to accurately gauge bandwidth consumption."

"It was easy and straightforward to set the program up."

"I am quite satisfied with this solution and I would recommend it for anyone who is considering using SolarWinds Netflow Traffic Analyzer."

"It helps us know when a branch is down because it has a graphic presentation of all the locations a node represents."

"It is great at telling you if your devices are working and it keeps an eye on your network's overall performance."

"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it."

"What I like the most is the bandwidth assessment."

"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature."

"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."

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

"The drill-down available for packet analysis is great, as it gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."

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

"Wireshark is a very useful tool."

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

"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."

"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."

"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."

"I wouldn't recommend SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer to others, unless pricing is lowered."

"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."

"What needs improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is performance because sometimes, my team struggles too much for the solution to perform correctly for a specific deployment in my organization."

"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is application visibility because some applications aren't being recognized correctly."

"In terms of support, I would rate them five or six out of ten. It was difficult to find videos for training. Overall, I am not satisfied with the support."

"DNS could be improved."

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

"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."

"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."

"I would like better control of bandwidth from the service provider."

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

"The solution has a steep learning curve. There are so many filters and features that are frequently being updated, it takes research, experience and familiarity to be able to use them. It could be a lot more user-friendly."

"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."

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

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

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably 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."

"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."

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

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

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

"It's free."

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

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

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

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