Hi Developers, Any plan for Analytics support in wireshark ? As lots and lots of applications are getting developed in each and every category(Games,Social Networking,News,Financials,Adult content etc..) and it might be good that if wireshark gives a nice overview with charts(Bar/pie etc..)to make end user more informed about traffic patterns. asked 08 Apr '13, 16:49  krishnayeddula |
2 Answers:
Various open-source projects are, to differing degrees, "crowdsourced". Wireshark's probably on the "very crowdsourced" end of that spectrum, so that what shows up in Wireshark is less a matter of formal plans by the core developers and more a matter of "somebody decides to implement it in Wireshark and contribute it" (the contributor might be a core developer, but, if so, they're probably not doing it as part of a formal plan). If you want, for example, something to show traffic broken up into categories such as "Games,Social Networking,News,Financials,Adult content,etc.", you'd probably have to have lists of hosts for those categories (as a lot of the traffic is just HTTP at the protocol layer) and something that, instead of showing a graph or chart based on hosts, shows it based on host categories. (That would also require code in Wireshark for drawing charts other than the line graphs we have currently, e.g. pie or bar chart code.) answered 08 Apr '13, 20:11  Guy Harris ♦♦ |
Take a look at the graphing functions available under the Statistics menu. Basically, anything you can use as a display filter can be graphed. Those graphs are exportable in several formats. I'm not a Wireshark developer, but as far as pie charts, bar graphs, etc...shrug Part of the problem with "doing graphs" is the question of which formats to use. I know folks who won't use any graph they can't generate in their favorite tool (Excel, OpenOffice, whatever). I'd rather have the ability to export analytics as CSVs, which I could then import into the tool of my choice. answered 08 Apr '13, 19:33  wesmorgan1 |
