The complexities of a modern corporate network with multiple physical locations, cloud presence, and even serverless applications means the task of monitoring your network activity requires a significant amount of planning and design. WireShark (formerly Ethereal) has dominated the space to the point that many others (including Microsoft Network Monitor) were shelved. The two most critical features of an ad hoc protocol analysis tool are that it be both flexible and easy to use. The first hurdle is whether you plan to use the solution solely to monitor network traffic or to incorporate audit logs from business applications and servers.”]