Enterprise packet investigation · Root-cause analysis

Find the root cause. Prove it in the packets.

Reduce the time from a reported symptom to a defensible root-cause analysis. PacketSafari returns one responsible ownership verdict: network primary cause, network contributing factor, no captured network fault, or inconclusive—with the evidence and limitations attached.

Reported symptom
Packet evidence
Defensible RCA
Less manual packet hunting
Fault-domain adjudicationtls-reset-regression.pcapng
Failed attempts12 repeated sequences
56 ClientHello57 RST/ACK81 ClientHello82 RST/ACK
Healthy baselineSame destination service
29 ClientHello31 ServerHello
Adjudication

Packet loss rebutted · reset ownership unresolved

SupportedImmediate post-ClientHello resets
RebuttedPacket loss as the primary cause
OpenWhich service-path hop generated the reset?
Next evidenceMatch frames 56–92 and 175–190 against firewall, load-balancer, TLS-inspection, and service logs.
Sanitized persisted investigation evidence · attribution remains explicit

One question · four responsible outcomes

Prove the network did it. Or prove the capture does not.

PacketSafari separates supported ownership from suspicion and missing evidence. Every verdict includes the next operational action.

Responsible verdict

Network primary cause

Captured network behavior directly explains the reported symptom.

Evidence threshold
Require causal packet evidence, a matching time window, and healthy comparison where available.
Operator handoff
Repair the implicated path, device, policy, or transport condition.

No captured network fault means only that the available capture does not show one. It never proves the network is healthy outside that evidence.

Automatic RCA for complex captures

Direction first. Verification stays visible.

The PacketSafari Core Engine searches capture-wide evidence while Agent reasons over compact facts—not the whole PCAP as model context.

  1. 01Capture accepted
  2. 02Preliminary evidence
  3. 03Candidate RCA
  4. 04Independent verification
  5. 05Defensible report
01

Fast answer

Start from a concrete symptom or selector for the fastest bounded preliminary direction.

03

Triage then report

Build the wider evidence map first when the capture is large, complex, or unfocused.

Large-capture capacity is deployment-defined and validated. Bounded decoding, indexed evidence, selector-first retrieval, and reusable findings improve scale without creating a universal RCA-time guarantee.

End the blame loop

Bring a symptom. Leave with evidence.

Evaluate with your capture