Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"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."

"Wireshark helps us to understand network traffic."

"Wireshark is very user-friendly; even someone with basic IT knowledge can use it."

"Wireshark saves a lot of time, especially with network troubleshooting."

"Being able to dissect email data and figure out what is inside email messages was the most valuable feature. Such a feature is pretty helpful for an ongoing forensic investigation or when there is a potential insider threat that you are trying to investigate. It allows you to see the network activity of the users you are investigating. It also gives you more visibility into your network. It was very easy to set up. There is a lot of information out there on Google and YouTube about how to use it. There is also community support. If you have any trouble, it is pretty easy to find an answer online. You will have to do some digging only if you have a very specific use case."

"Wireshark's best feature is that it's adaptive, which means it's the go-to tool for network-related developers."

"Setup is very easy. It's also possible to change source code and compile if you want to change something in the code, because it's free."

"We use it to monitor and manage our servers."

"The most valuable feature is the support for monitoring Cisco switches."

"The calculations part is the most valuable."

"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."

"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."

"Zabbix is scalable."

"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."

"It has good graphs of what is going on within the operating system.​"

"Wireshark could be improved with a delay option when getting data automatically."

"This product needs to improve the UI."

"It needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."

"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 is similar to an OS defense tool, meaning that it runs on an OS such as Ubuntu and Fedora, but I'm unsure if it's compatible with Windows or if it's a straightforward process to run it on Windows. Right now, my team needs to run Wireshark from a dongle to use it, so it's an OS-dependable tool, and that's an area for improvement. I was unable to use Wireshark on Windows, and I couldn't capture it, as I'm unsure how to configure the wireless card into monitoring mode on Windows. The process was straightforward on Linux, but it wasn't the case on Windows OS. It seems Wireshark isn't compatible with all OS. For example, you can analyze the log, and you can analyze it on the Windows server, but you can't do a capture in Windows. Configuring Wireshark for Windows isn't as easy as configuring it for Linux."

"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."

"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."

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

"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."

"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."

"The reporting features need improvement, especially detailed inventory reporting. Since it's freeware, reporting may not be a major focus."

"It could be more stable."

"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."

"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."

"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."

"In an upcoming release, there should be automated reports which we are currently doing manually. For example, if we collect a report file every day and want to send it to a moderator for review. We are expecting this feature to come out soon but it would be valuable to have now."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"It's free."

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

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

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

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

"The tool is free."

"It is free."

"Zabbix and Grafana are both open source products, we only needed to go to their website and download the application and we began to use them. The solutions are free."

"We use the open-source version of Zabbix."

"There is no license but we need to pay for support."

"It's free software released under the GNU/GPL license."

"Zabbix is a free solution but the support contact costs money."

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

"The solution is free to use but they offer support as a paid service. If you can go read the manuals and do the fine-tuning based on your needs, you do not need to pay anything and you will have a full solution."

"My manager is very happy because it doesn't cost anything."