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Elastic Beats vs Fortinet FortiAnalyzer comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

Elastic Beats
Average Rating
8.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (9th)
 

Featured Reviews

it_user1269834 - PeerSpot reviewer
I.T. Manager at a healthcare company with 51-200 employees
A great addition to our security monitoring system
We haven't to this point had to scale very large, we want to continue to evolve, but it's a slow process for us. From what I've used so far, and my reading on it, I don't think we're going to have any problems scaling to really whatever size we need.
AP
Engineer at Kahramaa
Management becomes centralized with effective logging
The features that are most effective for me in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are easy to manage. Fortinet FortiManager is also a great product to manage multi-site management options and other tools. The capability of logging in Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is great because there is no need to go to each individual box to check the traffic details. We can collect everything in Analyzer and check from a single console.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of, and it's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"This solution offers one view of incident management which has been the most valuable feature."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is easy; for customers with basic knowledge and for those who do not have a technical background, Fortinet is quite good and it should be the first choice."
"Support is helpful."
"The technical support from Fortinet is fantastic and I would rate it as nine out of ten."
"The solution is quite easy to deploy."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
 

Cons

"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"The reports are good, but they are over-summarized."
"We don't need to do much to install FortiAnalyzer because it always depends on FortiGate. You need to deploy FortiGate before you install it. That's why I say that I see it as a dummy box. I don't see anything interesting in it. It's only a support structure."
"Software reports are good but should match the dashboard and include top-level output instead of just base or low-level devices."
"I would like to see an improvement in the technical support. Stronger authentication will also be a plus."
"The technical support is not very reliable. Sometimes it takes them up to a week to get back to us."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve in its utilization of AI to enhance its security log analysis."
"When somebody is new to the system they find it difficult to perform certain operations, like backups, and to see where the reports are."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to search logs in integrated solutions."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It wasn't cheap, but it was cost-effective compared to many of the other solutions."
"In the local market sometimes people are being charged more than other solutions. Although the market is competitive, legitimate suppliers do not receive a large enough discount to pass onto the customers."
"It is acceptable for on-premises, but it is expensive for the cloud."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"The hardware has a one-time cost and maintenance is paid by annual subscription."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is very expensive."
"Its worth spending on FortiAnalyzer if you have multiple firewalls in your network."
"The pricing model is subscription-based."
"All Fortinet programs come at a good price."
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Financial Services Firm
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Manufacturing Company
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Construction Company
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Comms Service Provider
7%
 

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Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise31
 

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiAnalyzer?
I think technical support should be better. Sometimes support from Fortinet does not help with creating policies or configuration issues and directly routes to the service integrator. A little more...
What is your primary use case for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer?
I am using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer along with the analyzer for traffic monitoring and event checking. It is effective for analyzing traffic purposes.I use Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for event monitoring...
 

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