SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer vs Wireshark comparison

"They have instructional videos and other information available on the site to assist you with learning it, and even if you don't have an integrator or somebody teaching you how to use it, you could probably pick it up pretty easily."

"The product is a great experience to use and I never experienced any problems with this software application."

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

"The most valuable features are the bandwidth analyzer, the monitoring, the network analyzer, it has overall good performance, and an easy deployment."

"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."

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

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

"What people found most valuable in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is its report customization feature."

"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."

"What's best about Wireshark is that it doesn't require installation. It supports cards and monitoring permissions and is sufficient for appending and capturing activities. You won't need to install other tools to use Wireshark, so this saves you time. You can capture packets at any time from your laptop through Wireshark."

"Wireshark is a dynamic software that has developed and adapted to the latest technology advancements and network challenges."

"The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should."

"It is a stable product. I would rate the stability a ten out of ten."

"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."

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

"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."

"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."

"There is a lack of documentation ......as well as a lack of dashboards."

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

"Customer Support is quite complex."

"I would like to see better customization capabilities."

"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."

"This solution does not do a very good job when I am trying to look deeper into my internal network, in particular with respect to individual ports."

"An area for improvement in SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is the dashboarding. The user interface also has room for improvement because it's currently clunky."

"Built-in help system is not robust."

"Great scalability, but they are beginning to sacrifice ease of use for complexity."

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

"Maximum buffer size of captured data should be unlimited and should allow ability to archive all old captures (not save option) in real time, it should support a destination location where old captures can be directed for long term storage."

"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."

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

"With Wireshark, you cannot download and utilize the packet in automation."

"DNS could be improved."

"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 price of this solution is exceptional."

"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."

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

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

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

"The pricing is reasonable."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

"It is an open-source solution."

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