Control Packet Capture

Deep Network Visibility

Control Packet Capture, powered by Wireshark's protocol analysis engine, gives you unmatched insight into the structure and behavior of your network traffic. Every packet that crosses your infrastructure can be dissected, visualized, and understood in full context. This level of transparency allows you to identify how your systems communicate, where inefficiencies exist, and how protocols interact in real time.

Understand Every Bit of Traffic

Whether you’re managing enterprise networks or maintaining application-level performance, having deep packet visibility helps ensure optimal functionality and security. With support for hundreds of widely used and niche protocols, you can confidently analyze everything from HTTP sessions to lower-level transport layers. This makes Control Packet Capture essential for operations, development, and monitoring.

Real-Time Packet Monitoring

Control Packet Capture provides real-time access to your network’s heartbeat, enabling you to observe packets as they move through your environment. This immediate feedback is critical for identifying performance bottlenecks, spotting irregular activity, and validating system behavior without delay. From troubleshooting to live testing, real-time packet capture empowers teams to act quickly and accurately.

Advanced Protocol Support

Control Packet Capture is equipped to handle an extensive range of network protocols, making it an indispensable tool for modern infrastructure. It supports everything from standard internet protocols like TCP/IP and DNS to more specialized or proprietary ones used in enterprise systems. Each protocol is decoded with precision, revealing headers, payloads, flags, and metadata in human-readable form.

Built upon Wireshark’s evolving protocol library, Control Packet Capture remains up to date with emerging standards and updates. This ensures long-term reliability and compatibility with future technologies. You gain full contextual understanding of every packet, no matter how complex the environment.

Visual Traffic Analysis

Understanding raw packet data can be overwhelming, which is why Control Packet Capture includes dynamic visualization features. Users can review traffic flows, conversation maps, and protocol hierarchies in a clean and digestible format. These visuals reveal trends, peaks, and anomalies much faster than log analysis alone.

Intuitive Charts and Graphs

By transforming raw data into timelines, graphs, and connection diagrams, you can quickly isolate problem areas or observe high-level patterns across time. Combined with Wireshark’s detailed decoding, visualization makes it easier to communicate findings and make decisions backed by data. It’s ideal for presentations, reports, and audits.

Efficient Packet Filtering

Control Packet Capture allows users to apply powerful filters to narrow down traffic to only what matters most. Whether you're searching for specific protocols, IP addresses, MAC addresses, ports, or flags, the advanced filtering syntax lets you pinpoint the exact packets you need. This eliminates unnecessary noise and accelerates your analysis.

Focus Only on Relevant Data

Derived from Wireshark’s time-tested filter engine, the system supports both capture and display filtering. This means you can capture only specific traffic in real time or refine what you see from a saved session. Precision filtering saves time and lets you focus on the heart of any issue.

Multi-Platform Compatibility

Control Packet Capture supports all major operating systems, ensuring seamless integration with your existing technical environment. Whether you work in Windows-based corporate networks, macOS workstations, or Linux-powered data centers, the tool runs efficiently and consistently across platforms. This flexibility makes it ideal for diverse teams and hybrid infrastructures.

Secure Traffic Analysis

Control Packet Capture provides secure and ethical traffic analysis without breaching sensitive content. While encrypted payloads remain protected, metadata, handshakes, and protocol interactions can still be observed and assessed. This allows for performance and security diagnostics while maintaining data confidentiality.

Rich Export Options

Control Packet Capture offers comprehensive export features, allowing users to save, share, and integrate captured data into other systems. From .pcapng files for deep-dive reanalysis to CSV or JSON for structured data processing, you have control over your output format. This flexibility is key for reporting, documentation, and compliance workflows.

Share Data Your Way

Exported files retain full protocol detail and annotation, enabling seamless handoff between tools and teams. Whether you’re generating compliance records, submitting a packet log to a partner, or integrating with automation scripts, Control Packet Capture ensures your data remains accessible and complete.

Collaboration Made Simple

Modern troubleshooting often involves multiple stakeholders, and Control Packet Capture makes it easy to collaborate. Capture sessions can be saved, annotated, and shared across teams, so everyone works from the same data. Whether in a local IT department or global operations team, everyone gains equal visibility.

Share Captures Across Teams

Using the industry-standard .pcap format, compatibility with Wireshark and related tools is guaranteed. This ensures that your shared data can be opened, reviewed, and understood consistently. Collaborative workflows become faster, clearer, and more productive.

Historical Traffic Playback

Control Packet Capture allows you to replay recorded traffic sessions, enabling you to revisit critical network events as they happened. This historical playback is invaluable when conducting forensic analysis, verifying the root cause of incidents, or reviewing previous system behavior. Instead of relying on logs alone, you can visually inspect the exact packets and timing that led up to performance issues or anomalies.

Analyze Past Network Events in Detail

By using detailed timestamps, filters, and navigation tools, you can focus on specific time frames or connections during playback. It becomes easy to correlate user reports, alert data, or security events with real traffic behavior. This kind of retrospective insight empowers informed decision-making and improves long-term system resilience.

Extensible with Plugins

Control Packet Capture supports plugin-based extensions, enabling you to tailor the environment to match your unique needs. From adding new protocol decoders to automating repetitive tasks, the system can grow alongside your technical requirements. Built on Wireshark's plugin-friendly architecture, development is accessible even for smaller teams.

The plugin framework opens doors to endless customization—from integrating internal tools to supporting proprietary protocols. You can automate post-capture processing or build custom visualization layers for niche use cases. This level of extensibility ensures that the tool remains future-proof and aligned with your evolving workflow.