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 drill-down available for packet analysis is great. It gives a network security engineer insight into what is going on at the packet level and enables better troubleshooting."

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

"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."

"Packet-capture files can be hard to use due to their size. Wireshark has a tool called tshark that can parse the files with out opening them so that you can take large captures, say 2-10GB, and return only relevant information."

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

"It has good basic features."

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

"It provides high scalability, alerting, notification, templating, and end-to-end security."

"It is a great product. The SNMP protocol tracking feature is good. I really like how it tracks SNMP. The alerts are also great."

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

"The calculations part is the most valuable."

"The implementation process is very straightforward."

"I use the solution to provide a perfect environment for remote connectivity with my clients."

"The solution is open-source, easy to manage, and user-friendly making it easy for anyone to use."

"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."

"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."

"Wireshark could be improved by adding more monitoring features."

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

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

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

"I would like to see Wireshark improve the ease of application of the command. The command is very powerful, but not easy to apply."

"You need some basic knowledge to work with Wireshark. Maybe it could be more user-friendly just for new users. Just for the new generation."

"We would like the product to be developed so that it doesn't rely on internet access for installation. We would like to see all of the components required to be integrated into the installer."

"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."

"I am having difficulties connecting it to Grafana, as well as some of the other plugins like Kibana."

"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."

"Documentation terminology could be improved."

"We would like to see the addition of automatic push functionality to this product. This would save time when monitoring our servers and networks as, at present, we have to manually install the Zabbix agent on any hardware to be monitored."

"It could be more stable."

"Its UI should be improved. They did some improvements in version 5, but it could benefit from some more work. Its integrations should also be improved. They've been active for one year, and they seem to have noticed that. It has new integrations, but it could benefit from more integrations. As far as I know, there is no model to push statistics, metrics, or events towards Zabbix. This type of API isn't yet there, whereas some other tools provide an API for this."

"The documentation could be improved."

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

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

"We're using the free version of Wireshark."

"It is free."

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

"It's free."

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

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

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

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

"I use the tool's free version."

"We are using the free, open-source version."

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

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

"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."

"The solution is free. However, many open-sourced tools start out free but eventually start charging."