Wireshark

FIRST-HAND READS

What people reported, in their own words. Every line links to where it was said.

• “Wireshark was very simple to use and once the network is exposed, it has lots of information available online if you need more”

  POSITIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-06-06

• “it is far more common that I look in wireshark to debug network issues, the application level view is often not enough”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-05-31

• “I literally found a problem with AI analyzing packages in Wireshark and it hinted and steered me in the direction in me finding the error setting in the end”

  POSITIVE · performance · Hacker News · 2026-05-17

• “previously it was either wireshark and a ton of regexes, handwritten scripts”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-04-25

• “being able to use wireshark to dump traffic over network/bluetooth/usb is VERY helpful”

  POSITIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-17

• “the Wireshark Flatpak can't capture packets, which makes it useless in common scenarios”

  NEGATIVE · features · Hacker News · 2026-04-05

• “I curse every developer who makes me fire up strace, tcpdump, procmon, Wireshark, etc”

  NEGATIVE · Hacker News · 2026-03-08

• “Everyone else was clicking through the wireshark GUI and I just grepped every answer”

  NEGATIVE · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-24

• “the overwhelming part of wireshark is, at least in my experience teaching networking at a college level, the actual networking part”

  LUKEWARM · ease of use · Hacker News · 2026-02-23

• “improving the accessibility (#a11y) of the Wireshark network protocol capture/analysis tool”

  MIXED · Hacker News · 2026-02-10