wireshark/wireshark
Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
77/100
- Activity 99
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4448
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 7
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
9782 stars · 2198 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded
Wireshark is the world's leading open-source network protocol analyzer (packet sniffer) with a Qt GUI, deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, powerful display filters, and decryption support. It ships with companion CLI tools including TShark (line-oriented capture/analysis), dumpcap, and editcap, and supports live capture and offline analysis of many capture file formats.
Use cases
- capture and analyze network packets
- debug network protocol issues
- troubleshoot slow network performance
- inspect TLS/SSL traffic with decryption keys
- analyze pcap capture files offline
- monitor VoIP call quality
- learn how network protocols work
- capture packets from the command line with tshark
When to choose
- you need deep packet-level inspection of hundreds of protocols
- you want a mature, industry-standard analyzer with a GUI and CLI variants
- you need to read or convert many capture file formats
- you need protocol decryption support (TLS, IPsec, WPA2, etc.)
When to avoid
- you only need high-level metrics or dashboards rather than packet-level detail
- you need a lightweight passive monitoring agent for continuous production deployment
- you cannot obtain the privileges required for packet capture on your system
Facets
application · maturity stable
networking security cli gui developer-tools networking security developer-tools windows bsd cross-platform cli packet-capture packet-analyzer protocol-dissection tshark pcap network-debugging voip-analysis traffic-analysis command-line linux macos
9 sources
- readme: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark · fetched 2026-08-28 · 15aa0c1d3013
- homepage: https://www.wireshark.org · fetched 2026-08-29 · b9bdc6326de5
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked · fetched 2026-08-29 · 276ebec84f36
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · d9b0cdcd440c
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes · fetched 2026-08-29 · b8fa57217e02
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · 0494b23c4209
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8a3187ee2a66
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · 500c63681596
- site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/members · fetched 2026-08-29 · 823aa7166b60
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| wireshark/wireshark | main | 77 |
For agents
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