These sources include: Windows event logs, *.log files (such as netlogon.log), PowerShell, SQL and Azure. pcapng format), it can analyze information from a whole host of other sources.

Message Analyzer can not only capture traffic and read captures (including Wireshark’s. Little did I know this tool can do so much more.

I dismissed it due to a combination of it being billed as the “Successor to Microsoft Network Monitor” and I was already comfortable with Wireshark.

So when I saw the announcement of Microsoft Message Analyzer, I didn’t give it much mind. I’ve used Wireshark with success for years. You know it today as Wireshark, the go-to solution for network capture and analysis. Then along came Ethereal, a very powerful packet capture and analysis tool. It was a confusing mess and generally not very good. You probably remember some years ago Microsoft had their Network Monitor tool to perform packet captures. Look no further, Microsoft Message Analyzer is here! More than a Replacement for Network Monitor Wouldn’t it be nice to have a single pane of glass to look at all these manage all these sources of information? I’ve spent many late nights switching back and forth trying to correlate a packet in Wireshark with an event log entry while referring to a log file. It’s not uncommon to have your precious screen real estate taken up by window after window of troubleshooting tools. Then there are massive numbers of logs with which we have to contend. Wireshark, Process Monitor and TCPView are just a few tools that come to mind. Real troubleshooters know there comes a time when you really need to dig in to the details of what is really going on with a system.

Pcapng analyzer