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Wireshark Alternatives & Competitors
Looking for alternatives to Wireshark? Tons of people want Network Monitoring software. What's difficult is finding out whether or not the software you choose is right for you.
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Top 20 Alternatives & Competitors to Wireshark
SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor
(170)4.5 out of 5SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer
(92)4.5 out of 5NetFlow Traffic Analyzer network traffic analyzer and bandwidth monitoring softwareReviewers say compared to Wireshark, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withMore usableIntermapper
(55)4.1 out of 5Intermapper is a user-friendly tool that helps IT professionals map and monitor their networks in real time. Find and fix performance issues before users are impacted with auto-discovery, Layer 2 mapping, custom alerts, and more.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Intermapper is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withMore usablePRTG
(48)4.6 out of 5PRTG is a network management software solution that monitors your network using a range of technologies to assure the availability of network components by measuring traffic and usage.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, PRTG is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withMore usableCisco Network Assistant
(26)4.0 out of 5Cisco Network Assistant simplifies wired and wireless network management for networks up to 80 devices with its intuitive GUI and a task-based menu. Cisco Network Assistant is free and is optimized to apply common services across Cisco switches, routers, wireless controllers, and access points.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Cisco Network Assistant is:
More expensiveMore usableNagios Network Analyzer
(20)4.0 out of 5Network flow analysis, monitoring, and bandwidth utilization made easyReviewers say compared to Wireshark, Nagios Network Analyzer is:
More expensiveSnort
(20)3.9 out of 5SNORT(r), The standard in IDS and IPS.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Snort is:
More expensiveMore usableBetter at supportZabbix Monitoring Solution
(22)4.4 out of 5Zabbix is an enterprise-class open source monitoring solution designed to track, record, alert and visualize performance and availability of IT resources.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Zabbix Monitoring Solution is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withBetter at supportSpiceworks Network Monitor
(18)4.6 out of 5Powerful, easy-to-use network monitoring software.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Spiceworks Network Monitor is:
Easier to do business withMore usableEasier to adminCacti
(13)3.8 out of 5Cacti is an open-source, web-based network monitoring and graphing tool designed as a front-end application for the open-source, industry-standard data logging tool RRDtool. Cacti allows a user to poll services at predetermined intervals and graph the resulting data.ThousandEyes
(13)4.5 out of 5Performance Management for the Cloud EraReviewers say compared to Wireshark, ThousandEyes is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withBetter at supportIndeni
(13)4.4 out of 5Indeni offers automated network monitoring solutions.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Indeni is:
More expensiveMore usableEasier to do business withIpswitch WhatsUp Gold
(12)3.6 out of 5Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold is unified infrastructure and application monitoring software that gives modern IT teams the ability to monitor their increasingly complex IT environment with a single product.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Ipswitch WhatsUp Gold is:
More expensiveEasier to do business withBetter at supportInventory
(12)3.8 out of 5Inventory helps to manage IT, basic and Advanced network inventory management, a track of the hardware and the and shows who has access to.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, Inventory is:
Better at supportMore usableIntel AMT
(11)4.1 out of 5Intel AMT enables IT to remotely manage and repair PCs, workstations and entry servers, utilizing the same tools across platformsReviewers say compared to Wireshark, Intel AMT is:
More expensiveMore usableStatusCake.com
(7)4.7 out of 5StatusCake provides website monitoring and sends alerts when a user's website goes down or is experiencing other technical problems such as being slow to load.Reviewers say compared to Wireshark, StatusCake.com is:
More expensiveBetter at supportMore usableSQL Monitor
(4)4.3 out of 5SQL Monitor helps you and your team find issues - before they become problemsSolarWinds ipMonitor
(4)4.9 out of 5Essential up/down and performance monitoring for networks, servers, and applicationsHVMonitor
(4)4.5 out of 5HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads PC systems main health sensors : voltages, temperatures, fans speed.StatsD
(4)4.9 out of 5Simple daemon for easy stats aggregation.
#1
"NPM- Total Network Management and Performance Package: Free fully functional Demo. The ease of setup and scalability should you need to grow/shrink your installation. You can connect multiple data collectors, networks and architectures and have a NOC dashboard as well as a granular view of each switch if needed."
#2
"A great bolt on for NCM: The level of detail and integration with Cisco NBAR2 data. The design of the interface is well thought out and layered allowing for a very intuitive experience when trying to drill down into an issue."
#3
"Venerable product is still the best in class: The ease of constructing maps was and is Intermapper's best feature. I've been using Intermapper since the original Dartware release, and this has always been the reason I've stuck with it.
The new release I just upgraded retains a high degree of compatibility with older versions, but adds important new capabilities like probe groups the original didn't have."
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#4
"PRTG in your company: The implementation of the PRTG in our company allowed us to verify and analyze the network flow of our internet, since we registered the interface that we received our internet link and from prtg we were able to monitor the traffic and the schedule that has more flows, as well how it helps us create maps of network flows and reports."
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#5
"Easy management of multiple devices: It is one of the easiest to monitor the network devices. The user interface is very intuitive and friendly. You can go through various topologies developed with its help. It has a good management from dashboard. It is very easy to setup and start with."
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#6
"Nagios is an excellent platform to monitor your network or network services: - What I like most about nagios is that it is constantly checking each host on the network and detects any failure that may be occurring, such as high latencies, lost packets or the service dropped in its entirety.
- Another thing that I like about nagios are the alerts that it emits constantly, that way it is not necessary to be entering to check the network constantly, because it gives you an alert in case there is a problem with a host.
- A benefit that I have obtained from nagios, is that it allows you to integrate with other platforms and applications, that makes the work much easier."
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#7
"Good Network Intrusion Detection System: Snort is a open source network intrusion system. Snort when installed on the system, it captures the network packets the system receives and either saves it to a log file, displays it on the console. It also has a mode where it just applies the rules which are defined for analyzing the packets it receives and identify any malicious content which is harmful for the system and then alert the user. The performance of snort is depends on the configuration and might also give false positives."
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#8
"Our Experience With The Monitoring System Zabbix: Zabbix is a control-software for manifold network parameters, servers’ operability and status of servers. Zabbix uses a malleable notification scheme that allows users to set up alarm signals by mail for almost every event. This function makes it possible to react rapidly to difficulties with the server. Zabbix offers brilliant visualization and informing capabilities based on the collected data. That’s why Zabbix can be considered an ideal tool for scaling and modeling.
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#9
"Spiceworks is by far the best free monitoring and inventory tool available.: I love everything about Spiceworks. It's so easy to use and gives me tons of useful information about the devices on my network."
#10
"Classic Network Monitoring: Cacti has been around since 2004, and if you've read any of those "Top 5 network monitoring software" lists floating around it most likely included Cacti. Since Cacti has been around for well over a decade now, there is a vast (if not always thriving) community support for most issues that you run into. The software is also still actively being worked on, which is rare in a piece of free software that has been around for so long.
So what's so great about Cacti? It is infinitely customizable. If there is a MIB or SNMP OID for something Cacti can graph it. It's free.
Customization:
Are you tired of the standard white background and green traffic graphs? Well with Cacti you can make those graphs black with yellow outlines, or red, or fuscia, or sky blue, or any internet color you want. You have the options to make the graphs wider, shorter, taller, skinnier, include 20 data points or a single data point. The customization options are almost limitless.
SNMP Graphing:
If you can pull data off of a device via SNMP, then cacti can graph it. You are also not limited to graphs, pulling integers and displaying them as text is there. I personally have even used Cacti to graph voltage off of batteries and temperature readings off of a remote sensor. Cacti is well known for network interface statistics but it doesn't stop there.
Free:
There is typically no better cost than free. Being free though does come with some drawbacks, which are made fully aware when you look at the downsides."
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#11
"Quality of Experience monitoring no.1 : TL;DR: Ease of use, nice webUI, very good performance, reporting and integration features
Very easy to set up, webUI is clear to understand without even reaching to help or support. Help docs are also clear and easy to read. Very good blogs introducing the use cases (and giving new ideas how to use this piece in your environment).
Reporting section is very good and highly customizeable. I also like possibility to just use the data via API and create my own stats and reports.
Best ever path visualization (hop-by hop multipoint tracaroute-like visualization of paths taken), great BGP peering overview, very good DNS visibility and health analysis, and many more...
Very good integration features help building very good alerting solutions."
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#12
"Currently One of a Kind: I love the ease of setup for a solution that is so powerful, it can alert you to problems before the become a service affecting issue. "
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#13
"WhatsUp Gold for monitoring our critical appliances: En mi compañía llevamos utilizando WhatsUp Gold desde el año 2009, estamos próximos a cumplir 10 años con este software de IPSWITCH y cada año es el primero de nuestra lista de renovaciones de licencia.
Se trata de un sistema de monitoreo, robusto, confiable, muy fácil de instalar, configurar y utilizar. Esta percepción es válida para todos sus usuarios, desde sus administradores hasta los agentes de monitoreo. Confiamos en esta herramienta para conocer el estado de salud de nuestras redes y dispositivos más importantes para nuestro negocio."
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#14
"Great free software: Works with or without an agent. Scans on many different protocols and ports to discover most of the information that you would need for a device automatically. When you feed it login credentials, it gets even more information about the devices, especially for Windows. I like that if you feed it SNMP info for a switch, each device lists the switch port it is connected to. It's also nice that you can manually enter devices, or manually edit existing devices. Keeps track of warranty information for some devices such as Dell and HP."
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#15
"Awesome tech for out of band management of systems : the ability to manage systems that are not able to access the operating system or require advanced repairs without physical access is awesome"
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#16
"Status Cake hass best confiability for my sites: When I go on vacation, Status Cake gives me the peace of mind of being monitored and taken care of by countless customer sites.And especially keep an eye on my company website https://studioa1.com.br"
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#17
"I have one year experience in using SQL Monitor: 1) Multiple SQL server can be monitored simultaneously.
2) Real time graph helps to analyse the health of SQL server.
3) SQL monitor reports can be reviewed in different perspective.
4) User can get alert for any discrepancy or error without having to review graph continuously."
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#18
"The best software for monitoring internal network: With this software, we can find where and how critical network problems are occurring. This program shows in a clear and efficient way, in addition to having a friendly and easy to use interface."
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#19
"simple actions that allows what should do what should be done.:
608/5000
Being an amateur PC, I must look for and rely on the additional tools that assure me to keep my hardware safe, that's why this tool is in software. It shows me and makes me know with the greatest certainty that everything is without problems, my temperatures are in the correct ranges and that all the components work properly. HVMonitor has been a determining factor for me, since it effectively shows the necessary of my pc just at the start."
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#20
"Statsd It is one of the best products.: It is an excellent product, with a great interface and easy to use. I like it because it is easy to configure, it has an excellent support that looks for quick solutions to your problems."
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