Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"The filter option provided by Wireshark is its most valuable feature...Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

"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."

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

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

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

"It has good basic features."

"The ability to decrypt traffic and the abundance of filters available are both valuable features."

"The best part about Wireshark, in my opinion, is its ability to analyze packet capture files."

"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."

"SNMP monitoring, source discovery, and alert triggering are most valuable."

"The pricing of the product is reasonable."

"It's a flexible solution."

"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."

"The flexibility of this solution is amazing."

"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."

"The most valuable feature is monitoring."

"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."

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The solution’s user interface could be improved."

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

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

"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."

"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."

"The reports are not great and should be improved."

"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."

"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."

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

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

"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."

"It is free."

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

"We are using a freeware version of this solution, so there are no licence costs involved."

"It's free."

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

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

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

"I am using the free version of this solution."

"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."

"It is a true open-source solution, so there are no licensing costs."

"The solution is open source so is free."

"We pay the subscription for support by year."

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

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

"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."

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