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Saurabh Kumar

Verified reviewer

Computer & Network Security, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2022

Wireshark Security tool

Excellent experience with this tool from 2 years.

PROS

Better for Packet analysis, bandwidth, threshold analytics with the help of this software.

CONS

Nothing to dislike in this tool, best to analyze network analysis to know about network flow information and monitor suspicious activity in the network.

youssef

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2023

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PROS

It helps you keep track of network traffic and packet analysis. You can filter results by protocol to find what you're looking for. It is available on Windows, Linux, and macOS. It supports multiple output formats such as XML and CSV.

CONS

might need a learning curve to find the best filter for your needs

Reasons for switching to Wireshark

wire shark offers more advanced analysis options

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Rabinson

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

3

EASE OF USE

2

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2021

Great tool for

PROS

I save a lot of time when I was debugging a request. I could easily see the payload between.

CONS

The UI is somewhat old fashioned I can be better than that.

Maha

Computer Software, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed September 2023

Wireshark: A reference network monitoring tool that everyone should use

Very effective network sniffing and monitoring tool. Can be used to monitor network traffic in many different applications and scenarios.

PROS

I use Wireshark in all my computer networks, computer security, and database courses to demonstrate to students the format of network packets and the specifications of the protocols used in these courses from HTTP, DNS, TCP, IP, ICMP, ARP, ... We also use Wireshark to better understand network security protocols such as Diffie-Hellman, Kerberos, IPSec, SSL/TLS to name few. Wireshark provides a hierarchical display of the packets encoded in human-friendly fashion. Very easy to install and link to an interface to start sniffing traffic and analyzing it. The filters are very powerful and effective and one can literally categorize traffic based on any field in the headers of the protocols in the TCP/IP suite. I wonder if there is any other open-source package providing the same features as Wireshark. The wireless promiscuous mode is amazing as it allows the user to sniff traffic from any network device given the necessary privileges to do that.

CONS

Definitely applying filters would be at first intricate for beginners and students but by some practical examples on the correct syntax it would become a second nature. Would be really happier if the PCAP library is embedded in the same installer.

Wassim

Computer Networking, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2023

Wireshark: the one and only data sniffer for network monitoring

I can't imagine testing network protocol operation without using Wireshark. Network sniffing for security penetration testing is always tested using Wireshark or TCPdump.

PROS

Wireshark is a must for monitoring the data communication on the network links. The main features I really enjoy in Wireshark is its ability to demonstrate the encapsulated payloads and headers at the different layers: Messages at the Application layer, Segments at the Transport Layer, Packets/Datagrams at the Network/IP layer, and Frames at the DataLink layer. The filtering mechanism in Wireshark is so practical where you can filter packets based on the different protocol fields such as the source IP, destination IP, source port, destination port, TCP control bits (Syn, Fin, Ack, etc.). Wireshark can operate in the promiscuous mode and can sniff data at the different available interfaces. Captured packets can be stored offline for later analysis.

CONS

Wireshark is very appealing. Some improvements can be made to the interface to make it more user friendly. Moreover the need to preinstall some prerequisite libraries such as pcap make the deployment a bit complicated for beginners and students.

Jason

Computer & Network Security, 1 employee

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2023

Wireshark

Perfect tool for anyone who works in any field of cyber security of IT/NETWORKING Industty.

PROS

All in one tool essential for numerous purposes in cyber security. Whether it's Kali Linux, windows, or Mac Os, Wireshark is one of the most powerful tools a cyber security analyst uses in the industry. A must have in cyber security highly recommend.

CONS

Lots of tools and settings but overall highly satisfied and definitely recommend.

Ali

Telecommunications, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2023

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Wireshark has always been my life saviour with tracking and analyzing my SMPP and TCP/IP packets

PROS

Wireshark can easily capture your desired packets without much troubles, and then view your packets with unlimited filtration capabilities and functionalities.

CONS

I dont think wireshark has any missing features, maybe it could be better if the PDU logs were viewed in a bit more organized way

Anonymous

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed November 2023

Best Network capturing tool all time.

I am working as a Cyber security researcher and trainer. The wire shark always comes in handy while teaching the common protocols and deep packet of inspection for suspicion traffic on a network. I am using it more often than other product like TCP dump.

PROS

Wireshark is available on various platform. don't need to worry what is operating you are using. It is allowing us to monitor all traffic from different interface in real world (wifi, Different LAN, even bluetooth). Wireshark is one of the best tool that help in Deep packet inspection and Malware analysis by capturing the network traffic comparer to other products and its free tool.

CONS

The only negative thing I feel is the user interface and the filter's. it's not beginner friendly. Its from my personal experience, I face difficulty in the start. After some time we will get used to it.

Tomasz

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2021

Essential tool for Network Engineers

Wireshark extract all the information that you could think off out of .pcap files.

PROS

Great GUI, great filtering and great form of displaying packet captures. It is the best software to analyze traffic with.

CONS

Only con I can think of is that it requires administrator priviledges on Windows to capture packets on interfaces but it is more of a system thing than software fault

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Navneet Singh

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 10,000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2021

The Wireshark Review

My overall experience with Wireshark is awesome. It helped me get interested in cyber security and how packets transfer and how we can analyze them. If someone is using an HTTP site on your network you can easily decrypt their form data with the help of Wireshark into plane text.

PROS

Firstly it is a free-to-use software and can be installed in almost all the operating systems but mostly it is found in versions of Linux as it is a network scanning tool. It can be used to test our web app or software by capturing the packets they transfer and then analyzing them and checking if there are any security issues or not. I have been using this since I was in my school. It is very much easy to use if you have the proper documentation.

CONS

There are no cons to using the software. Most individuals use this when they start with cyber security as it is a pretty common tool.

Mirza

Construction, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2021

Analyze and trace your network with this package tracer tool!

I manly use it to debug my network system on first two layers, which is really easy to do so with Wireshark. I have been using it for about 2 years now and it was very helpful in lot of situations. The second thing that I use it for is tracing some of my data especially if I am interested in packages that are going trough my network or if I am interested in a way they are going. I sometimes use it for monitoring all devices around the house and watching them communicate from time to time, it is really fun sometimes to see all those patterns that make devices run properly.

PROS

Free open source product for tracing all activity on your network. Great tool for troubleshooting all kinds of problems and bugs. It works perfectly with any kind of OS and helps to capture all the traffic going trough your network. You don't need any programming languages to do this, only thing that you need is to learn how to use this software, which can be done in a short period of time if you practice your skills with it. Wireshark software really provides detailed view on network packages which can be put in a different colors for a better perspective of things. Trough all that, it also gives you an opportunity to troubleshoot yourself out of some unwanted situations and follow where does your internet data go.

CONS

Wireshark maybe, could be a little bit difficult to use to some novice users, until they take some time to fully understand the way the software, but I think that most folks out there should be just fine with a way the software works. There is not much to dislike, the software works fine and does what it was made to do. That is to read the packages, follow them and trace all the data which goes trough the network.

Miguel Angel

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Wireshark, herramienta indispensable para la gestión y resolución de problemas en redes.

Es una herramienta imprescindible en el sector de las IT. En mi sector (QA) la utilizamos a diario para verificar el correcto comportamiento de los dispositivos que sometemos a pruebas. También la utilizamos para analizar el comportamiento de las redes y determinar si el funcionamiento se corresponde con los requerimientos de las empresas con las que colaboramos.

PROS

Wireshark permite capturar y monitorizar tráfico en tiempo real, ya sea por ETH o por WiFi. En las trazas obtenidas, podemos verificar el funcionamiento de nuestra red, utilizando filtros tales como VLAN, IP, Protocolo, puerto, etc. Tiene una utilidad que permite modificar el modo en que se muestra el tiempo de la captura, esta es muy útil dependiendo del tipo de análisis que necesites hacer.

CONS

La única desventaja (para mi no lo es) es que para gente que no esté acostumbrada a trabajar con Wireshark, puede resultarse difícil utilizar algunos filtros.

Hicham

Telecommunications, 201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Essential tool used on my daily support job

I have been using Wireshark for more than 15 years and i can't imagine my support and troubleshooting job without it. It simply allows you to monitor and analyse any type of IP packets and protocols.

PROS

Very intuitive UI, advanced network and telephony monitoring and analysis capabilities and great filtering tool...All makes a network engineer job a lot easier to deal with support tasks on daily basis.

CONS

It can slow down the computer performance when you have to deal with heavy traffic and long monitoring period.

Aamir Ullah

Research, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2022

A must know tool for telecommunication engineers

PROS

Network traffic can be very easily analyzed with Wireshark. Features like live capture and offline analysis of packets make Wireshark more suitable to use. The feature to use filters and analyze only specific types of packets or data.

CONS

The graphical user interface is not user-friendly. A more user-friendly GUI is required. Dashboard graphs can be provided that would show the stats of network traffic.

Félix Alexander

Telecommunications, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2022

Herramienta indispensable para ingenieros y técnicos de redes.

Es el mejor software de analisis de trafico, Es una herramienta muy práctica que permite el analisis de trafico de red.

PROS

En mi trabajo utilizo esta herramienta a diario, sobre todo para monitorizar la red y poder analizar algunos paquetes de datos con protocolos HTTP, HTTPs, UDP, TCP.

CONS

La interfaz de usuario no es facil de usar, debería de haber una interfaz grafica más facil para el manejo del usuario.

Vishvam

Computer & Network Security, 1 employee

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

2

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2023

Free Network Monitering Tool Wireshark

Overall Wireshark is the best Open Source Software which is licensed under GPL (General Public License) which captures the packets and also provides the Reporting and Statistical features at zero cost, Wireshark also provides regularly patches and updates for making the software even more reliable .

PROS

Wireshark is the best network monitoring and packet analyzing tool which is useful for network as well as server monitoring tool, The most likely feature i have used is wireshark is useful to fetch the contents of the packets of the HTTP traffic and also captures the SYN , ACK requests and WiFi Handshakes (1-4) very well which can be further useful for network penetration testing.

CONS

I we don't specify the host , endpoint or IP address to monitor wireshark captures tons and tons of network in all the interfaces which makes it very hard to identify the important requests that are been transferred over the network.

Mahipal Singh

Information Technology and Services, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed August 2022

Wireshark Review

My overall experience with Wireshark is too good. It helps me to debug the network packet offline easily after capturing the TCP dump online. It is easy to find the issue we are getting either sending/receiving the data.

PROS

Network monitoring is the best feature which I liked most about this software. It helps us trace the network packet if there is an issue while transferring or receiving the data to our server. It is one of the best applications in the market. Its UI makes it easier to debug the packet offline after capturing the data online.

CONS

As of now, I don't have anything which I don't like about this software.

Pawan

Computer Software, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2021

Best packet analyzer tool

Overall I love using this tool for network sniffing different types of packets and playing around with it.

PROS

Wireshark was easy to use as a packet inspection tool. I like the feature of colorizing the packets so its gets highlighted and easy for inspection of different types of traffic. Also, I use both the Linux and Windows operating system and Wireshark is available for both the system and that's a good aspect of Wireshark. It allows capturing and inspecting the packets from all the available network adapters. I also love the packet filtering feature so that I can filter and see the desired types of packets. Overall it's a great packet inspection tool.

CONS

One feature I don't like about Wireshark is that I am unable to change the payload as it only captures but does not allow to manipulation of data.

Anonymous

2-10 employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed February 2023

Analiza tu red

PROS

Posee unas funciones ya predefinidas que te ayudarán a poner en funcionamiento el software desde el minuto uno.

CONS

Considero una herramienta que sin los conocimientos básicos no es fácil de configurar.

Reason for choosing Wireshark

En principio este software es imprescindible si necesitas analizar el tráfico de red que al menos posea 50 máquinas

Marat

Information Technology and Services, 2-10 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2021

Wireshark review

I use Wireshark for at least 15 years so far and I never missed any feature in this application.

PROS

This open-source cross-platform tool is very useful in my daily routing tasks. I use it a lot to determine the source of network problems. It has very user friendly interface. Our team also uses TUI version of Wireshark - TShark.

CONS

I personally don't have any complaints against Wireshark. When we need higher speed of data displaying output we use TShark.

Reason for choosing Wireshark

Wireshark has all features required for our team.

Ricardo

Consumer Goods, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

2

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed May 2021

Useful but complicated

PROS

It helped me out trough some trouble shooting, for laboratory trials during some university classes, and overol it's a great learning tool for info-sec, hacking, and other cibersecurity related topics.

CONS

It's interface is not very pretty, simple, nor functional. Especially the way you have to learn to code the way Wireshark specifically needs to in order to filter the kind of content you want to see in a packet. It's a bit too complicated rather than having more visual aids

Ibrahim

Pharmaceuticals, 5,001-10,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

2

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed January 2021

Wireshark is all you are going to need

overall, this is very powerful software, very handy and professional. It came a long way since the previous versions yet it is not easy to use out of the box and needs time to get used to it, also reading online resources to get the full potential out of it.

PROS

well built software Saturated with functionalities Does not exert a big impact on the system resources

CONS

Still, the User Interface is not as easy to use The functions can be organized in a better way

Matthew

Biotechnology, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed September 2021

Debugging Software

Use to debug software applications that communicate with custom hardware over TCP and UDP. Instrumental in determining communication issues and resolving them.

PROS

Allows for filtering and debugging of networks protocols, specifically, TCP and UDP. The data is easy to see and filter.

CONS

Due to infrequent use of the product, the filters always take a few minutes to figure out again. Improved filter management would be nice.

Anonymous

1,001-5,000 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

2

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2021

Great tool for network analysis

PROS

Wide range of features, nice user interface, open-source software, good documentation

CONS

The software works fine, can't complain at all.

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Mohamed

Verified reviewer

Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2021

WireSHark Review

amazing application and very recommended

PROS

it is an amazing application i have been using it for more than 2 years and i have started using it in my graduation project connecting and stability of it is amazing

CONS

Connection time and setup need some one that has been dealing with it before and has training in it

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