SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"It doesn't cost too much."

"What my organization likes best about SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its easy deployment. It's also well-integrated in terms of monitoring because my organization also uses a SolarWinds solution for monitoring. You can connect SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer directly to that monitoring tool to get information. My organization also finds the default graphs that appear before the configuration in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer very useful."

"We have had a good experience with customer service and support; they are knowledgeable and cooperative."

"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."

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

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

"The performance analysis is a valuable feature, and 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."

"This is a good product for quick and easy troubleshooting."

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

"The initial setup is simple."

"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers, as when the new protocol comes up, it's rapidly applied to the system, so I can just look into the packet."

"The solution is open-source and free to use, and there is a paid tier with more features if a company needs a bit more."

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

"This is the de-facto standard network protocol analysis tool."

"Wireshark has a tool called tshark that can parse the files without opening them so that you can take large captures, say 2-10GB, and return only relevant information."

"I would like to see better customization capabilities."

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

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

"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."

"It's not a cheap product, so the pricing could be improved."

"NTA's documentation for the implementation phase needs some enhancement."

"It is a scalable solution, but it is costly to scale. Therefore, I would rate scalability at eight out of ten."

"It does not flow. It cannot do our metric performance monitoring. So it is very limited. They can do it but in a very limited fashion. It is only good for SNMP-based alerts."

"It’s helpful only if you have the basic knowledge of networking."

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

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

"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."

"Wireshark does not allow you to make any changes relevant to the network; in other words, you can only observe the network."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

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

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced."

"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."

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

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

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

"It's 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."

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

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

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

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