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Falcon LogScale vs Fortinet FortiAnalyzer comparison

 

Comparison Buyer's Guide

Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

Review summaries and opinions

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

Categories and Ranking

Falcon LogScale
Ranking in Log Management
19th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
9
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
Ranking in Log Management
9th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
108
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2026, in the Log Management category, the mindshare of Falcon LogScale is 0.9%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is 1.5%, down from 2.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Log Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer1.5%
Falcon LogScale0.9%
Other97.6%
Log Management
 

Featured Reviews

Oluwajuwon Olorunlona - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber Security Engineer at eprocessconsulting
Advanced threat hunting has improved visibility and has simplified custom query automation
CrowdStrike is ahead of the game. If I may say anything about Falcon LogScale to improve the services, I would talk about the way you develop parsers. The documentation should be more straightforward. It is not easy to quickly find the documentation, especially if you are using CrowdStrike. Most customers use Falcon LogScale because of CrowdStrike. The documentation of Falcon LogScale is not on the CrowdStrike portal just like the rest of Falcon documentation. I usually find that the main Falcon LogScale documentation is found on the Falcon LogScale website itself. I think there should be a link or direct documentation within the CrowdStrike pages. It is not necessarily a fault. If you find where the documentation resides, you can trace it to what they are doing. However, for the ease of use for Falcon administrators, the same documentation on the Falcon LogScale portal should be on the CrowdStrike dashboard.
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

"Falcon LogScale offers excellent features, with scalability being the most notable, and the search speed stands out to me as particularly good."
"I have only heard the best about CrowdStrike's support."
"The biggest advantages of Falcon LogScale are the speed at which the queries return to you and the ease of use."
"One of the key features is the fast search functionality, enabling us to get results within a few seconds."
"Falcon LogScale seems to be a better option with better visibility when it comes to the dashboard and the kill chain process, including the attack surface."
"Falcon LogScale stores logs without heavy indexing and searches directly, making it very fast."
"The fast search and index-free data retention are very valuable."
"It offers the capability to view live log ingestion directly from the console which means you can seamlessly manage live log data ingestion alongside accessing and analyzing older data from the past."
"The initial setup is easy, and the deployment is fast."
"The most valuable features are customizing reports, and the ability to drill down to display critical information in real-time."
"The solution provides good standardized reports and is easy to troubleshoot."
"The ability to gather all gateway information and logs in a single location is the most valuable feature."
"The stability of the product is good and it has been reliable."
"The reporting and organizing part of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is very interactive, smooth, and easy to use."
"Special notifications about compromised phones are valuable because we have some guest networks, and sometimes, people are connecting phones that are connected to compromised websites. We want to be informed about it. We sometimes have some cases where we want to analyze the connection from inside to outside ports. So, it helps with a lot of things. It depends on our needs."
"The most valuable features of the solution are report generation and traffic logs."
 

Cons

"The price could be lower."
"One area of Falcon LogScale that I think could be improved is that it is a bit complex."
"That is a difficult question regarding Falcon LogScale. That is really a question for the professionals, and I am not a professional, so I do not know."
"There are some overlapping features found in multiple tools."
"CrowdStrike support is not good."
"KQL is a bit challenging for us."
"One more point about areas for improvement is the visualization depth. Splunk, which I used, has very good visualization compared to Falcon LogScale."
"The integration could improve."
"Fortinet has a new bug every month, which needs to be improved."
"One area for improvement could be better support for third-party products, as it doesn't have as much visibility with these compared to Fortinet's own products."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by offering more detailed packet inspection information, especially where packets get dropped."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by having better integration with other vendors."
"The upgradation process is slow"
"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."
"Currently, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer provides a very basic level of correlation facilities. I would like to see improvements in the integration of better correlation capabilities."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I do not know the price of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. I did not pay for it, but I know the price of other Fortinet products. They are not cheap. I am from Poland. We have Zloty, not Euro, so for us, everything is expensive."
"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."
"I believe that Fortinet is a cost-effective brand, making it a competitive option in terms of pricing."
"We pay for an annual license."
"It is acceptable for on-premises, but it is expensive for the cloud."
"The pricing model is subscription-based."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is very expensive."
"The company's choice to utilize Fortinet FortiAnalyzer was based on the overall security strategy and compatibility with existing solutions. It was deemed the best fit as it provided a centralized point of visibility for all of their security solution, including Fortinet FortiGate firewall, FortiClient, Forti EMS, and FortiAP. The company conducted a thorough evaluation of various solutions in the market but found that none of them could fully integrate and manage all their solutions as effectively as Fortinet FortiAnalyzer."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
14%
Manufacturing Company
9%
Comms Service Provider
9%
Media Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
10%
Construction Company
8%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business9
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise2
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business57
Midsize Enterprise22
Large Enterprise31
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with Falcon LogScale?
CrowdStrike is ahead of the game. If I may say anything about Falcon LogScale to improve the services, I would talk about the way you develop parsers. The documentation should be more straightforwa...
What is your primary use case for Falcon LogScale?
I primarily use CrowdStrike, along with some other solutions. I have been using Falcon LogScale for approximately a year now.I like Falcon LogScale for threat hunting primarily. I use it to make qu...
What advice do you have for others considering Falcon LogScale?
I am also involved with Airlock and sometimes use Airlock application control too. One of the requirements is to have a SIEM. For you to be able to have visibility into everything going on in your ...
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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