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How to use Windows 10 Packet Monitor tool Pktmon
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Updated onOctober 4, 2023
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Windows10 Packet Monitor or Pktmon is areal-time monitoring tool that was included in theWindows 10 October 2018 Update. Its description fromCommand Promptcalls it anAdvanced packet capture and event collectionbut its more common description would be apackage sniffer.
How can I use Packet Monitor in Windows 10?
To run the Packet Monitor, first, you need to open aCommand PromptWindow.
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Press Ctrl + R to open Run and typecmd,then hit Enter or click the OK button.
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While inCommand prompt, typepktmon.exeand hit Enter.
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You will see a list of possiblecommands. If you’re not familiar with them, you can use the helpcommand. Type pktmonname of thecommandhelp. For example, thepktmon start helpwill show you the whole description of thecommandlike in the picture below.
Some useful Pktmon command lines
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To filter a port for packages, you can use thepktmon filter add -p [port]commandfor each port you want to monitor. For instance,pktmon filter add -p 80willfilter the 80 port.
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To start monitoring packages typepktmon start –etw -m real-time.
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to stop the monitoring typepktmon stop.
After you stopped monitoring, the report has been stored in the PktMon.etl file. To read that, you either download and install theMicrosoft Network Monitor,or you can transform that into a text file.
To do that, type pktmon format PktMon.etl -o reportlog.txt.
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