Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"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."

"The options that are required to get the details for the packet drops are good."

"The solution is easy to install and use."

"The GUI is easy to use."

"I can save the traffic and analysis when I want to. Also, it's especially helpful to follow the stream (TCP, UDP, etc.)."

"The feature to incorporate Voice over IP (VoIP) incidents into network traffic analysis is valuable. Capturing voice or SIP communication allows for examination of interactions between SIP clients and SIP servers. This helps the team investigate or analyze issues related to call center servers and operators."

"It helps in analyzing if something looks suspicious, such as a brute force attack or scanning from somewhere."

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

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

"There are lots of great features and functionality within the solution."

"It has an intuitive UI with beautiful graphs and customizable maps."

"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."

"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."

"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."

"Setup was straightforward. Initial deployment took two or three months."

"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."

"The decryption of encrypted packets could be better."

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

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

"I have not used Wireshark to an advanced point where I could provide a detailed opinion on improvements needed."

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

"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."

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

"It should be easy to modify the front end."

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

"We had some scalability issues with a large number of nodes."

"The solution needs to add remote features."

"Implementing Zabbix is difficult. I've deployed many solutions over the years, and Zabbix is the hardest to implement. You have to do some development to get it to work with IBM, Micro Focus, or HP products."

"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."

"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."

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

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

"Wireshark is free software, so you don't have to pay any licensing fee. Individual people can use it and then donate to Wireshark."

"It is free."

"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."

"It's free."

"The tool is free."

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

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

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

"We were searching for an open source solution and Zabbix fit the bill because it is free and open source under the GPL license."

"It’s free of cost."

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

"We’re using the free version, which covers all our current needs."

"I was using the free, Community Edition."

"The tool's licensing costs are yearly."