Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

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

"The solution is easy to install and use."

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

"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."

"You can use Wireshark to see the traffic packet format, the IP layers, the fields, and the enabled flags."

"It has good basic features."

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

"The GUI is easy to use."

"The initial setup was not complex."

"The most valuable function for me is the auto-discovery of interfaces in devices. When you integrate devices into the tool, it automatically finds the interfaces, which is very helpful for my job. Integration and configuration run smoothly in my experience with Juniper and Aruba devices."

"The solution is quite mature and very stable."

"Health and communication links availability."

"We use Zabbix to monitor our organization's IT infrastructure and workstations. We don't use Microsoft Intune since it's expensive. The tool's real-time alerting system has proved crucial for us, particularly when a new device joins a network that is not one of our own devices. It notifies us about the presence of this new device, allowing us to investigate further. Additionally, it alerts us about disk usage, memory usage, and the software installed on the machine."

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

"It's the best solution. Great. I would rate the overall solution ten out of ten."

"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."

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

"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."

"It is not an easy program. You will need to study to use it to its full capabilities (follow a course)."

"Sometimes I need to use tcpdump when I need to check the packets on CLI."

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

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

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

"We'd like to be able to extract the output into an Excel table."

"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."

"I have experienced stability issues approximately five or ten times."

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

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

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

"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."

"Sometimes, the documentation is a little bit written in Estonia – a country in Europe. The language barrier and translation to English can sometimes make it difficult to understand what they're trying to get at. It's just a language thing."

"I would like to remotely connect to the computer, and Zabbix doesn't have this capability."

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

"It's free."

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

"It is an open-source solution."

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

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

"I use the tool's free version."

"Zabbix is an open-source tool, and it's free to use."

"The tool's licensing is good."

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

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

"For pricing, it's free. We don't pay anything for it. They open-source the code, and people pay for support."

"The product is an open source and free solution."

"If you have 20,000 hosts, the support costs around €95,000 for a year."