We performed a comparison between Elastic Security and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"It's a good platform and the very best in the current market. We looked at the Forester report from December 2022 where it was said to be a leader."
"The most valuable features are the speed, detail, and visualization. It has the latest standards."
"The indexes allow you to get your results quickly. The filtering and log passing is the advantage of Logstash."
"The solution has a good community surrounding it for lots of helpful documentation for troubleshooting purposes."
"Enables monitoring of application performance and the ability to predict behaviors."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is the capturing of traffic for reports."
"From my perspective, we need to see the traffic in a good way so we can know what has happened in our network. The analyzing tools and the monitoring tools and the logs are the important part in the network."
"Support is helpful."
"The solution provides good standardized reports and is easy to troubleshoot."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"The analyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"It gives you live logs, which can be really helpful during troubleshooting."
"The interface could be more user friendly because it is sometimes hard to deal with."
"The solution could also use better dashboards. They need to be more graphical, more matrix-like."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"An area for improvement in Elastic Security is the pricing. It could be better. Right now, when you increase the volume of logs to be collected, the price also increases a lot."
"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"The solution does not have a UI and this is one of the reasons we are looking for another solution."
"We set up a cron job to delete old logs so that we wouldn't hit a disk space issue. Such a feature should be available in the UI, where old logs can be deleted automatically. (Don’t know if this feature is already there)."
"One thing we struggled with FortiAnalyzer was integration with SIEM. We also had issues with the new threats and APTs. There were false positives, so we needed to have some ratings related to false positives."
"The solution could use more graphics and be more specific in the dashboard. This way, I'm able to understand everything and effectively understand what's going on, including what's incoming and outgoing. Right now, I have to look up everything. I need a dashboard so that I can see specific items right there in one place."
"They could always improve the interface and the user experience."
"The technical support is not very reliable."
"The deployment is complex and has room for improvement."
"The interface or GUI does not work properly on Microsoft Edge. The behavior or the view is different on Microsoft Edge versus on Chrome or Firefox. When some buttons do not work, I am forced to switch to Firefox."
"The cost of FortiAnalyzer could be cheaper, especially when you are installing to a VM. For 90 percent of customers, the VM solution is enough."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not good at managing multi-version environments. If all your FortiGate are at different versions in the field, that's difficult. The one thing we didn't like is the fact you have to have 100% of your environment at the same release, which is not pleasant, to have it fully functional. You can have a different release, but to have it fully functional 100% of your environment has to be the same release."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 58 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and SentinelOne Singularity Complete, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and syslog-ng. See our Elastic Security vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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