Wireshark vs Zabbix comparison

"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."

"The solution is easy to install and use."

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

"I have found the most valuable feature you can design your sniffer the way you want to."

"The strongest feature of this solution, is the ability it gives us to carry out deep-packet inspections on our network, particularly when a function isn't performing as it should."

"The session-level filtering features are valuable."

"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."

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

"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."

"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."

"Health and communication links availability."

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

"They've already added extra features, such as noise-canceling and facial recognition, which is great."

"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."

"The pricing of the product is reasonable."

"We value the auto-host discovery, template import, bulk import/export features. Newer versions also add nice features, such as multi-IP per host."

"The Wireshark search function shows green for a correct search and red for an incorrect search. If there were a way to provide a description about what a search - and the similar ones which are available - can do, while a person is typing it, it would make the product easier to use and simultaneously decrease the learning curve."

"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 needs the ability to follow multiple interfaces for specific traffic from different network zones/virtual networks. It would help to understand how any packet is going through the network."

"The system could be improved upon by adding a better and more powerful data processing engine."

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

"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."

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

"In the future, it would be nice to see color coding. It is just black and white."

"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."

"The main problem with Zabbix is that you have to spend time writing templates for all of the products that you have."

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

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

"The performance reporting could be improved."

"When it comes to troubleshooting or technical support, there is usually some time lag."

"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."

"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."

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

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

"Wireshark is free software, so you can download it and use it for free with no licensing fees."

"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 is an open-source solution."

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

"The solution is open source so is free."

"We purchased Zabbix for a good price, including support"

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

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

"This solution is completely open-source, so it is quite affordable."

"It's an open-source solution that can be used free of charge."

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

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

"Zabbix is free but if you use it in production then you have to pay for it."