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| Considered Both Products |  Wireshark  Kaveen Eashwarage Manager - Special Projects Chose Wireshark Firstly, Wireshark is a free tool! Easy to implement and its opensource. We had many reviews & recommendations from users in the industry. All our requirements were available in the tool.  Swapnil Madiwale Technology Lead Chose Wireshark The feature set is really great, and GUI helps at times when setting up the DNS feature, as well as a general quick overview into the system. It is really good that the tool supports protocols that are generally used on the network and get into the depth, and retrieves …  Arnab Mukherjee ITSM and Project Management Consultant Chose Wireshark Wireshark is widely used and is the most popular packet analyzer available. It is a great debugging tool and easy to implement and use. It is Open Source and has a variety of options to analyze your network traffic.  Mauro Biefeni Head of Information Technology Chose Wireshark Wireshark overall is just better put together and seems to operate better. Maybe it has jus been more mainstream for a longer period of time, but we like and trust it better than other alternatives at this time.  Chase Palmer, CISSP Senior Security Analyst Chose Wireshark [Wireshark] is just the go-to application. It's the tool that is taught with in school and at trade conferences. We have not had a need to even look at other tools. It's free, it had a ton of functionality, and it just works without complaint.  Drew Harrison Programmer Chose Wireshark Fiddler has recently become my preferred network packet capturing tool, as it allows you to manipulate data for testing. Because I'm building automation software, this feature is invaluable to me. Otherwise, Wireshark is the better choice because it can capture ANY type of …  Jaspreet Singh Cyber Security Analyst Chose Wireshark There are quite some softwares that provide this functionality, but by far Wireshark is the most renowned and reputable software for network packet analysis. Wireshark also has a big open source community available on the Internet which helps people with any sort of problems …  NAKIA EPLEY Student at Green River Chose Wireshark Wireshark integrates into just about everything and is more of a go along than one or the other in my opinion. Its ease of use, and clear understanding, make it a go-to in analyst work.  Kenneth Hess Senior Systems Analyst Chose Wireshark I've looked at several over the years but Wireshark's no cost and advanced capabilities make it an easy choice for me. Wireshark's biggest advantage is its cost, which I've mentioned several times. It's significant in budget terms. I can't justify paying $1,000 for software …  Matthew Frederickson Director of Information Technology Chose Wireshark I'm not sure there are other products out there that can do all that Wireshark does for the price (free). Yes, there are commercial products that can do "more", but I haven't found the need to do anything "more" that I need to spend money on. It can generate reports; export …  Ari Robinson Senior Product Manager Chose Wireshark TCPtrace is great if needing to capture communication on the same machine. Network Monitor was boring compared to Wireshark. |
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| Small Businesses | No answers on this topic |
| Medium-sized Companies |  PRTG Score 8.5 out of 10 |
| Enterprises | PRTG Score 8.5 out of 10 |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 9.5 (29 ratings) |
| Likelihood to Renew | 10.0 (1 ratings) |
| Usability | 10.0 (2 ratings) |
| Support Rating | 10.0 (3 ratings) |
| Implementation Rating | 10.0 (1 ratings) |
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| Likelihood to Recommend | Open Source
Chase Palmer, CISSP Senior Security Analyst |
| Pros | Open Source
Jaspreet Singh Cyber Security Analyst |
| Cons | Open Source
Mauro Biefeni Head of Information Technology |
| Usability | Open Source
Kenneth Hess Senior Systems Analyst |
| Support Rating | Open Source
Drew Harrison Programmer |
| Implementation Rating | Open Source
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| Alternatives Considered | Open Source
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| Return on Investment | Open Source
Kaveen Eashwarage Manager - Special Projects |
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