# wireshark/wireshark

Read-only mirror of Wireshark's Git repository at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark. You're welcome to submit pull requests there.

Repository: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/wireshark
Homepage: https://www.wireshark.org
Language: C
License: GPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: wireshark, packet-capture, tshark, stratoshark
Last push: 2026-08-26T22:19:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 77/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4448, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 9782, forks 2198 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:37.133563+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: stable
- function: networking, security, cli, gui, developer-tools
- domain: networking, security, developer-tools
- platform: windows, bsd, cross-platform, cli
- tags: packet-capture, packet-analyzer, protocol-dissection, tshark, pcap, network-debugging, voip-analysis, traffic-analysis, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- wireshark/wireshark (main) score 77

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.133563+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:21:01.785147+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/wireshark/wireshark (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:37.133563+00:00, sha 15aa0c1d3013)
  - homepage: https://www.wireshark.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.118549+00:00, sha b9bdc6326de5)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsug_html_chunked (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.122908+00:00, sha 276ebec84f36)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.128257+00:00, sha d9b0cdcd440c)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.121144+00:00, sha b8fa57217e02)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.129926+00:00, sha 0494b23c4209)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/docs/wsdg_html_chunked (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.131601+00:00, sha 8a3187ee2a66)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/faq (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.125217+00:00, sha 500c63681596)
  - site_page: https://www.wireshark.org/members (fetched 2026-08-29T08:20:51.133274+00:00, sha 823aa7166b60)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.