Wireshark vs LibreNMS: What are the differences?

Wireshark: A free and open-source protocol analyzer. It is the world’s foremost and widely-used network protocol analyzer. It lets you see what’s happening on your network at a microscopic level and is the de facto standard across many commercial and non-profit enterprises, government agencies, and educational institutions; LibreNMS: Opensource Auto-discoverying network monitoring system. It is an auto-discovering PHP/MySQL/SNMP based network monitoring which includes support for a wide range of network hardware and operating systems including Cisco, Linux, FreeBSD, Juniper, Brocade, Foundry, HP and many more.

Wireshark and LibreNMS can be primarily classified as "Network Monitoring" tools.

Some of the features offered by Wireshark are:

• Deep inspection of hundreds of protocols, with more being added all the time
• Live capture and offline analysis
• Standard three-pane packet browser

On the other hand, LibreNMS provides the following key features:

• Monitoring
• Alerting
• Distributed monitoring

LibreNMS is an open source tool with 1.99K GitHub stars and 1.44K GitHub forks. Here's a link to LibreNMS's open source repository on GitHub.