Most network monitoring tools use the Simple Network Management

Protocol (SNMP).
This is an industry-standard for networking and requires an SNMP
manager to collect data from SNMP agents. An SNMP agent needs to be
resident on each device.
All network device manufacturers ship their products with an SNMP
agent already installed.
All that is lacking is the SNMP manager and this is the role that the
network performance monitoring tool provides.

A good network monitoring tool should include:-

1. An auto discovery function to compile a network inventory

2. An automated network topology mapper
3. Drill-down views giving a network performance summary and then statistics
per device type through to each individual network device
4. Performance expectation thresholds that define acceptable performance.
5. An alerting mechanism so that operators will be drawn to the dashboard if a
problem arises.
6. Color-coded data visualization to aid rapid status recognition.
7. Pre-written report templates to automatically extract key network
performance statistics for analysis and presentations.

Wire shark is a network packet analyzer .i.e. tray to capture

network packet and display the packet data as detailed possible.

it is one of the best open source packet analyzer available to day .

It is used to troubleshoot network problem and examine security
problem
Developer use for debug protocol implementation

Feature

Available for window and linux

Capture live packet data from a network interface

display packet with very detailed protocol information

Open and saved data captured

Import and export packet data from and a lot of other capture
program

filer packet on many criteria

search for packet on many criteria