Wireshark Reviews

Pros

Comprehensive Protocol Support,
User-Friendly Interface,
Real-Time Monitoring Capabilities,
Powerful Filtering and Search Functionality,
Active Community Support

Cons

Steep Learning Curve for Beginners,
Resource Intensive,
Overwhelming Amount of Information,
Limited Support for Encrypted Traffic,
Potential Security Risks

Pros

1. Perfect packet capturing tool to see the packet flow and analyse the data flow.
2. Very reliable and clear reports for data visibility.
3. Large number of filter options for deep root analysis for every timestamp.

Cons

1. Proper format of input IP data needs to get the results.
2. The UI and results are hard to understand.

Pros

The ability to filter down what you need. I use Wireshark on desktops/server the most and filtering out all of the unneeded packet is wonderful.

Cons

It's a bit of a learning curve, but that said there is a lot of information out there to find the needs best suited for you.

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.

Pros

It's ease of use and implementation across our IT Landscape are two major positive points of the application. In terms of alerting us to events and incidents, analysing network packets, troubleshooting, and resolving packet issues it has proved to be excellent. Although it is an open-source product, its quality and performance have never been compromised.

Cons

Sometimes I have found that the user interface isn't the easiest to use. It can appear quite jarring at time.

Pros

1. It's Free helpinh even small Enterprise on a reliable network management sytem without breaking the bank, allowing them to scale using great decision from the data collected and analysed

2.Pin Point Network Bugs with accuracy and analysis

3. It can easily be integrated or work Other systems

Cons

1. It requires time and focus to learn and master.

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.

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.

Pros

1. Gives wide view for network and packet analysis
2. With proper timestamp we can easily verify bugs , packet entry and ethernet packets.

Cons

Data format is required for capturing , UI is not much user friendly.

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.

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.

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.

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

Pros

Wireshark is a good app for network analysing and packet inspection.Thanks to Wireshark, I can analyse and often easily solve issues thanks also to customisable filters. The graphics are well thought out, which helps when working with the app. Also a great app for students learning networking.

Cons

I didn't encounter any major problems. The only thing I could complain about is the dark mode, which is sometimes not very user-friendly (the orientation is better in the light mode).

Pros

The interface is user-friendly and easy to use. It is open-source software. Network administrators and security professionals will find this tool valuable.

Cons

You need to be an expert in network protocols. It might be intimidating to learn for inexperienced users.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Pros

Wireshark is one of the greatest open-source software that is well structured and has many features and it is highly secure.

Cons

it is kinda hard to set up for the first time, you may need someone from support.

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.

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.

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

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.