Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"If you're dealing with troubleshooting network, voice issues, or network operations, having a tool like Wireshark to dive into packet details is important. The initial setup is straightforward. Anyone starting out or looking to deploy it on your personal PC or machine can do it easily."

"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."

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

"The most valuable feature of Wireshark is the ability to choose a destination of flow that has not been working as expected."

"I like the filtering feature as we can filter data easily. This feature is also available in tcpdump, but it's a simple piece of software. Wireshark is more advanced and has many features. It allows you to filter a lot of things. The output can be filtered easily. The most important feature is colorization. If I say, "Okay, this particular SMB protocol in red, it will show me red." It's easy to identify that protocol or capture data."

"The session-level filtering features are valuable."

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

"The GUI is easy to use."

"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."

"Simple network monitoring that is easy to install and manage."

"The most valuable feature is service assurance."

"Zabbix is good for discovery."

"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."

"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."

"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."

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

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

"DNS could be improved."

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

"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 could make the filtering rules easier to apply and offer a drag-and-drop option as opposed to type and text."

"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."

"Big trace files (more than 1,000,000 packets) can be slow, but then you can use "TraceWrangler" (also free) to help with slicing and dicing the data."

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

"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."

"The only issue I can note is that it's Linux-based, and Linux documentation is not the best."

"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."

"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."

"If you want to use all of the features then you have to pay a licensing fee."

"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."

"The user interface could be a bit better. They could update it a bit."

"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."

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

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

"It is free to download and install. It runs on multiple platforms, so how can you go wrong?"

"It's free."

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

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

"The solution is open source so is free."

"It is free, which allows us to reduce costs."

"It is freeware. We still use the free version of Zabbix."

"The tool's licensing is good."

"Zabbix is open-source so if one wishes to implement it in-house, they must have qualified professionals to set up and optimize databases, Linux/Unix OS, PHP, Apache, and depending on what is monitored, a full-stack network and systems administrator may be needed."

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

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"It is worth every cent to pay or even study to do your own installation."