Wireshark
The world's leading network protocol analyzer
Wireshark is a free, open-source network protocol analyzer that allows users to capture and interactively inspect traffic on a computer network. It supports deep inspection of hundreds of protocols across Windows, macOS, Linux, and UNIX platforms. Maintained by the Wireshark Foundation, it is trusted by millions of professionals worldwide for network diagnostics, debugging, and performance optimization.
Wireshark captures live network traffic and allows users to interactively browse and filter packets with detailed protocol dissection.
network engineers, security professionals, and developers
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- open-source
- Company
- Wireshark Foundation
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