SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"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 bandwidth monitoring functionality is one of the most important features for our customers. When the customer notices that their bandwidth usage is too high for some reason, they will use the traffic analysis within SolarWinds NTA to identify which protocols (e.g. HTTPS) or applications are using up the bandwidth."

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

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

"We have already seen a return on our investment by going with ThousandEyes."

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

"Visibility in the network is huge. Using the NetFlow analyzer, along with their NPM and NCM modules, are key for keeping our network up to date and for visibility."

"I find the IT Operation Management Suite, the software management tools from SolarWinds, to be very useful for our customers."

"It has good basic features."

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

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

"I believe everyone should use this tool if they need to analyze packets."

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

"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."

"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."

"Wireshark is more advanced and has many features."

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

"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. Having a more detailed view in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is another area for improvement, but that's more part of the protocol than the actual solution."

"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."

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

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

"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."

"The problem is that SolarWinds is trying to bolt in too much and that can leave bugs, which you have to then sort out, leaving the product unstable. SolarWinds needs to try and slow down and improve the stability of the product, as opposed to bringing out more and more features."

"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."

"It is difficult to scale this solution."

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

"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 initial setup depends upon the basics. You need to have a clear understanding of the basics."

"There is a disadvantage when it comes to sampling intervals. Additionally, I've heard from a colleague that Wireshark might be less effective in the voice domain."

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

"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."

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

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

"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 pricing is really good."

"NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is reasonably priced."

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

"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."

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

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

"It's free."

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

"It is free."

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

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

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

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