Packetbeat vs WireEdit
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Packetbeat agents sniff the traffic between your application processes, parse on the fly protocols like HTTP, MySQL, Postgresql or REDIS and correlate the messages into transactions. | WireEdit is a desktop WYSIWYG packet editor. It lets you easily edit captured network packets in a simple point-and-click interface. |
Packetbeat Statistics: Contains high-level views like the network topology, the application layer protocols repartition, the response times repartition, and others;Packetbeat Search: This page enables you to do full text searches over the indexed network messages;Packetbeat Query Analysis: This page demonstrates more advanced statistics like the top N slow SQL queries, the database throughput or the most common MySQL erro | Edit any packet at any layer from L1 to L7 with just a few mouse clicks. No hacking required. No need to look at Hex dumps.;WireEdit knows all mandatory/optional elements of a packet, their data types, encoding, inter-dependency, position offsets, value constraints, checksums, etc.;As you're editing WireEdit takes care of all the behind-the-scene details on the fly. No need to think about any of it. |
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