# Wireshark

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/wireshark/  
**Website:** https://www.wireshark.org  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Wireshark is the world's foremost and widely-used free and open-source network protocol analyzer. It lets you capture and interactively browse the traffic running on a computer network. Wireshark provides a powerful dissector framework with a Lua scripting API, C/C++ plugin architecture, TShark command-line tools, and the libwireshark library for developers building network analysis tools.

## Kin Score — 16.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.12.1. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 16.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 3.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Wireshark** — Wireshark is a free and open-source network protocol analyzer that captures and interactively browses network traffic. It supports hundreds of protocols, runs on multiple platfo...

## Security (2)

- **Wireshark Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Wireshark Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Wireshark Plans Pricing**

## Use cases (5)

- **Network Troubleshooting** — Diagnose latency, packet loss, and protocol errors in live or captured traffic.
- **API Traffic Debugging** — Inspect raw HTTP, gRPC, and WebSocket API requests and responses at the packet level.
- **Protocol Development** — Develop and test new network protocols using Wireshark dissectors.
- **Security Analysis** — Analyze network traffic for intrusion indicators and malicious patterns.
- **Education** — Learn networking concepts by capturing and examining real protocol exchanges.

## Tags

Debugging, Network Analysis, Open-Source, Packet Capture, Protocol Analysis, Security

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/wireshark/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.