Everbridge IT Alerting vs FortiMonitor comparison

Everbridge and Fortinet are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Everbridge is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.0, while Fortinet is ranked #10 with an average rating of 8.8. Everbridge holds a 5.7% mindshare in IMS, compared to Fortinet’s 1.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Everbridge users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 100% of Fortinet users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

Everbridge IT Alerting and FortiMonitor compete in IT incident management and monitoring. Everbridge appears to have the upper hand in integration options and incident response, while FortiMonitor stands out in comprehensive monitoring and performance insights.

Features: Everbridge IT Alerting offers real-time alerts, robust integration with third-party applications, and collaborative incident management. FortiMonitor provides continuous performance monitoring, detailed reporting on system health, and tailored notifications for infrastructure stability.

Room for Improvement: Everbridge could enhance its deployment simplicity and speed up the setup process. Users would benefit from more intuitive user interfaces and better onboarding processes. FortiMonitor might improve its vendor support speed and broaden integration landscapes. Its alert communication features could be refined for broader application.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FortiMonitor is known for its simple and swift cloud-based deployment and responsive customer support, ensuring smooth onboarding and troubleshooting. Everbridge offers dedicated support but has a more complex setup due to extensive integrations, potentially requiring more guidance during implementation.

Pricing and ROI: Everbridge involves a significant initial investment with high ROI through effective incident management and reduced downtime. FortiMonitor provides flexible pricing suitable for various business sizes, focusing on performance enhancement for ROI gains. Everbridge attracts those prioritizing long-term incident resolution costs, whereas FortiMonitor's adaptable pricing appeals to diversified demands.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Everbridge IT Alerting

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

7th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

FortiMonitor

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

10th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (22nd), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (7th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of Everbridge IT Alerting is 5.7%, down from 11.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of FortiMonitor is 1.7%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Alerting and Incident Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Everbridge IT Alerting	5.7%
FortiMonitor	1.7%
Other	92.6%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

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reviewer1846215

Crisis Management Director at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Helps in identifying potential impact and allows us to see where our assets are in relation to a risk event

I personally love VCC because I just think there needs to be more data to support it so we can be more proactive and easily assess the impact. So, I appreciate the visual aspect, but it has to have the data to support it. It has proved very useful, particularly because we have a GSOC that's not technically 24/7. We do have an 800 number that people call 24/7. If something happens, they can easily send Everbridge a notification to activate the team off hours. It is useful in that respect too. We use it in conjunction with teams, but off-hours and for additional people outside of the core team, we use Everbridge, which is useful.

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reviewer2677554

Network Engineer III at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Managing diverse networks with detailed alerts enhances device oversight

FortiManager is very helpful in managing our networks. We use it to manage 20 farms and various networks with hundreds of devices. The version we are using provides more detail than the older dashboard. We appreciate the alerting capabilities, which are integrated with SolarWinds to notify our team via SMS.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"A robust solution with multiple modules that can be leveraged."

"Even in the first few months, we realized some of those benefits around shortening the time to resolution."

"It's very customizable. For instance, if you're going on vacation this week, you go to your calendar and say, "I'm off this week, make the secondary the primary." And that's done on-the-fly. It's very responsive. It's very user-friendly."

"You can program in rotations, shifts, and scenarios of different kinds and it allows you to page multiple people, or people in sequence, or a group of people simultaneously."

"One key aspect of the solution is that it can send information very quickly and is connected to different nodes."

"It just runs. I do not think we have had a single outage; nothing. There has not been a single issue with it in the time that we have had it running. It just works."

"It helps to pull the right people in very quickly, through a collection of utilities where you can say, "I want to notify more than one person at a time. I want to escalate at my discretion and via rules within the system.""

"Valuable features include incident management and ease of integrations."

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"The most valuable feature of this solution is what the devices are used for. We have big backups for our Cradlepoint solutions, but FortiMonitor is a great routing device and we love working with them."

"FortiMonitor has a very intuitive dashboard, which makes it particularly helpful for analyzing traffic, alerts, and other information."

"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is user monitoring. We are able to see if the user is following the policy or not from their system. Additionally, the solution integrates well with Fortinet FortiGate and has centralized management."

"It provides the best firewall features."

"Fortinet's customer support is very good."

"The tool continuously improves, adapting to support new vendors and technologies. Importantly, it automates the process, triggering alerts when devices require attention, and eliminating the need for manual intervention."

"FortiMonitor is 100% stable."

"FortiMonitor is really easy to use for monitoring the logs on FortiGate...It is a stable product."

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Cons

"A key area for improvement - and I think they are working towards these things - is analytics. If I want to do sophisticated reporting and analysis of the data that's being captured in IT Alerting, at the moment, the reporting interface is immature."

"The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced."

"With their templates, you can only have a maximum of three phases: new, updated, and resolved. It's not always that easy when we open up a call, that we identify who we need, page out, and we're good. A lot of time it requires multiple page-outs. Being restricted to those three phases, there's no way to say, "I want this variable to be persistent, and this one to not be." ...I would like to see a bit more flexibility and tighter control over the templates and the variables you can create."

"One thing that could be improved would be to enable the mobile app to more easily display published calendars via the Member Portal. Currently, it is quite difficult."

"The ability to not have to worry about the IT alerting and calendar resources. I would like it to be simpler in the sense of a different cost structure."

"Explanations are limited to 500 characters in description fields."

"The incident templates can get complex and hard to troubleshoot, so it helps to focus on keeping it simple."

"The feature that xMatters has that Everbridge doesn't have, or has in a limited way, is a method of funneling some alerts, as an FYI, to other stakeholders who are not necessarily prime actors in an incident."

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"Sometimes, during high CPU usage, we cannot access FortiMonitor and must refresh it."

"Additionally, there are no AI features in FortiMonitor, which might be an area for enhancement."

"We use FortiToken, and it's a pain to use because you have to send things through your phone and then confirm by email. Only after this can you log in. It's dual-factor authentication. I wish that I could just log in or bring up a dashboard where I could log in from."

"FortiMonitor could be improved by making it more convenient for smaller workloads, such as when configuring a few branches."

"FortiMonitor needs to improve its alert system."

"There is room for improvement in the FortiMonitor report. It is not ideal for showcasing to tech customers or managers, especially when trying to display high CPU usage from logins within a specific range of months or the most recent month."

"The solution's initial setup process is time-consuming."

"Sometimes, we get corruption when upgrading from firmware to the new generation, causing a lot of issues."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Licensing cost is driven largely by the number of users in the platform including admins, group managers, and message senders, so you want to consider your needs there."

"When we did our contract, we did a three year contract with fixed pricing. We locked in the pricing for three years. As we have grown, we locked in pricing for additional units of employees."

"We thought the base product was pretty reasonable. It can pricey once you start adding stuff on."

"This product has helped us save $200,000 from being able to get rid of vendors and consolidate functionalities to doing incident reporting."

"For us, the pricing is a good value. I can't say whether or not their list pricing looks favorable to everyone who's checking, but I can say that the process of sourcing and procurement with them was very professional, comfortable, and friendly. The negotiations were done well on both sides, and in the end, I'd say the price was very effective... I think that people will find that Everbridge is a great listener and is willing to meet in the middle."

"It's a seven out of ten for us in terms of pricing. We've just gone through a process of looking at other solutions."

"They are one of the top three most expensive products. I also understand if you are going to use them for IT alerting, it is worth it. They are competitively priced, but the IT alerting is the differentiator. The way that they market it and push it out. That is their premier function."

"The current pricing model is adequate. We feel that the pricing model for our IT Alerting solution is competitive with similar solutions on the market."

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"In terms of licensing, while it may not be the most expensive option on the market, it's relatively cost-effective. You can obtain licenses at a lower cost, with the calculation being straightforward. For example, if you onboard around 5,000 devices, you'll need approximately 5,000 licenses, as each device typically counts as one license."

"The tool's pricing model in Vietnam is a bit high. I rate the product price as an eight out of ten."

"We have a large customer base for Fortinet, and the additional buying power got us really great discounts."

"There are additional costs needed for certain functionality, such as scalability."

"Compared to other solutions, FortiMonitor is a very expensive solution."

"FortiMonitor's price is very high."

"On a scale from one to ten, I rate the pricing a nine since it is a good solution that is available at a cheap price."

"The price of FortiMonitor is approximately $200 annually for 225 users. The price is competitive."

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Top Industries

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Financial Services Firm

15%

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Company Size

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Small Business	3
Large Enterprise	22

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Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Everbridge IT Alerting?

Everbridge IT Alerting is a cost-efficient solution.

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What needs improvement with Everbridge IT Alerting?

The solution's non-targeted communication with external parties could be enhanced.

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What advice do you have for others considering Everbridge IT Alerting?

We are using Everbridge IT Alerting for incident and crisis modules. The tool is powerful in itself, but as with any tool, you need to adapt it to the organization to be suitable for managing speci...

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What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

I have a clear bias because I work for Panopta. We aren't a fit for everyone, but I can confirm that Panopta is a lot less work to stand up and maintain. It's also a lot easier to use and onboard n...

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What do you like most about FortiMonitor?

In FortiMonitor, we're linked up with our Netgear, CactusServer, and NOC. It's really valuable because everything's migrating to one dashboard for us system engineers. We can keep an eye on traffic...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FortiMonitor?

FortiMonitor does save time but not significantly on costs, as there are still expenses related to procurement, installation, and licensing.

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Overview

Everbridge IT Alerting is a closed-loop cyber security and incident response automation solution that helps organizations respond to IT Incidents faster and improve teams’ response performance by automating communication, collaboration, and orchestration processes for ServiceOps, IT Security Ops, DevOps, and Disaster Recovery Ops. As a FedRamp-certified solution, IT Alerting capabilities include in-depth scheduling/calendars, interactive & analytical reporting, on-call scheduling, automated escalation, response workflow automation, recording, and much more. The solution is offered as a cloud service based on the secure, highly available, resilient, and globally scalable Everbridge CEM platform.

Learn why 5,400+ enterprise customers trust Everbridge (NASDAQ (EVBG)) with their IT Response Automation Management and IT Alerting solutions; visit ITAlerting.com to learn more or request a demo.

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FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted.

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