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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

"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"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, and it's a very robust product."
"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."
"Report generation is very easy"
"The technical support from Fortinet is fantastic and I would rate it as nine out of ten."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"I have found incident management and also identifying new threats, analyzing the network traffic, and finding out the issues with the network traffic such as any security issues to be valuable."
"From my perspective, we need to see the traffic in a good way so we can know what has happened in our network."
"We have other log analyzers, but we have found with Fortinet FortiAnalyzer when you have a Fortinet environment, it's fully integrated."
"The IBS (Intent Based Segmentation) and application web filtering are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
 

Cons

"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 dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve the user interface, and the experience of users receiving the reports and tracking could be better."
"The solution should include the ability to customize reports so that customers receive greater value and high level reporting."
"The solution could use more graphics and be more specific in the dashboard, so I am able to understand everything and effectively understand what's going on, including what's incoming and outgoing."
"The product should be integrated with other third-party solutions for context exchange."
"The technical support is not very reliable."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve the user interface, and the experience of users receiving the reports and tracking could be better."
"We'd like to see more embedded features."
"I think some improvement is required in real-time log monitoring, as sometimes it gets stuck or displays results after a delay."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"It wasn't cheap, but it was cost-effective compared to many of the other solutions."
"In other countries, the product may seem cheap, but in Vietnam, the costs are high."
"The pricing model is subscription-based."
"The hardware cost and services contract are fair."
"I rate FortiAnalyzer six out of 10 for affordability. FortiAnalyzer pricing isn't steady. It changes each quarter or year. That's one of the main problems in West Abaco because most businesses here are small or medium-sized enterprises. It makes budgeting complicated. You always want to pay the same price on the subscription."
"​It depends upon the company.​"
"I would rate the price of FortiAnalyzer as seven out of ten, with ten being the most expensive."
"It is expensive for small business customers. It is only available for customers with a high number of firewalls to manage or to report. If a customer has only five boxes of FortiGate, the price of FortiAnalyzer can be more than the five boxes. So, we can't easily put this solution for small business customers."
"It is acceptable for on-premises, but it is expensive for the cloud."
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Comms Service Provider
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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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