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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

LogicMonitor and FortiMonitor are competing products focused on network monitoring and performance analytics. LogicMonitor seems to have the upper hand with its broader feature set and integration capability, while FortiMonitor's strong security-driven features stand out for security-focused organizations.

Features: LogicMonitor provides extensive cloud-based integrations, scalability options, and in-depth analytics. FortiMonitor offers robust real-time threat detection, security monitoring, and competitive security features for organizations prioritizing security.

Room for Improvement: LogicMonitor could improve its pricing structure and user interface complexity for beginners. It may also enhance its security-specific features to match FortiMonitor. FortiMonitor might focus on including more integration options, increasing scalability for larger enterprises, and refining its initial configuration process to reduce setup time.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: LogicMonitor is known for its straightforward cloud-based deployment and proactive customer support, easing the adoption process. FortiMonitor is effective but may require more initial setup time due to detailed security configurations. LogicMonitor's customer service is faster in response, whereas FortiMonitor can take longer for complex issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: LogicMonitor tends to have a higher setup cost; its extensive features can lead to greater long-term ROI for enterprises seeking a comprehensive solution. FortiMonitor offers competitive pricing, appealing to businesses with a focus on security features over broader integrations. Despite higher initial expenses, LogicMonitor's broader capabilities might justify the costs for companies requiring extensive monitoring across diverse systems.

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Categories and Ranking

FortiMonitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

37th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

40th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

IT Alerting and Incident Management (17th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (11th)

LogicMonitor

Ranking in Network Monitoring Software

6th

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

8th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.9

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (9th), Container Monitoring (4th), Cloud Monitoring Software (5th), AIOps (6th)

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of FortiMonitor is 0.7%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of LogicMonitor is 2.8%, up from 2.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
LogicMonitor	2.8%
FortiMonitor	0.7%
Other	96.5%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

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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Anshuman Thakur

Site Reliability Engineer at a comms service provider with 501-1,000 employees

Monitoring has reduced downtime and now enables proactive alerts across cloud workloads

When it comes to the improvement of LogicMonitor, I think there are a few points that can be improved. The first one is alert tuning, which takes time. It requires effort when trying to understand it for the first time. The defaults do not always match our workload patterns, so I have to adjust the thresholds to reduce noise and avoid alert fatigue. While the dashboards are solid, I sometimes wish that the UI was a bit more intuitive when drilling down quickly during an incident. There are many options and finding the exact view where I can identify the exact problem takes a few extra clicks. When an alert comes and I click on a LogicMonitor alert, it takes time to understand what the alert actually is and to go through the data points. The alert page specifically could be better. The alert tuning part can also be made more simple. The first area that could be better is alert clarity and routing. Sometimes alerts do not include enough immediate context, so I still have to spend a few minutes correlating data across views. Adding more actionable details directly in the alert would make the response even faster. LogicMonitor sometimes gives false alerts as well. For example, if an EC2 instance is down, it will not determine whether the EC2 instance has been deliberately turned off or if it is actually not responding. At that time, it will give false alerts. The clearing of alerts is also an issue. Once an issue is fixed, the alert should be cleared, but it takes a little time for that alert to be cleared. Another improvement that would be helpful is simpler customization for complex dashboards. It is powerful, but building highly tailored dashboards, especially across multiple environments, can feel heavy and time-consuming. I would also appreciate a stronger out-of-the-box AWS correlation, such as automatically grouping related issues across EC2, EBS, and ALBs in a way that reads as a single incident story. This would reduce the mental overhead during outages. Grouping incidents together, such as all the EC2 alerts, all the EBS alerts, or all the load balancer alerts would be beneficial. Overall, none of these are blockers, just some improving areas. There could be smarter anomaly detection out of the box that can catch unusual but important behavior without manual tuning of every threshold. Better tagging and dynamic grouping for EC2 instances would also be helpful. Cleaner alert de-duplication so a single underlying issue does not generate multiple redundant alerts would improve the system. More guided root cause workflows would be beneficial, such as providing the most likely causes based on correlated metrics. Faster search navigation across devices, dashboards, and alerts during incidents would also improve the platform.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"Overall, I would recommend FortiMonitor to others."

"With FortiMonitor, you can get all the logs of the traffic information of the destination or the source."

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

"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, blocked sites, and the health of our hardware. That last part, about knowing if something's going to fail soon, is super important. It gives us time to sort things out before any big problems happen. As a system engineer, I need to keep tabs on everything – temperature, monitoring systems, and network operations. This data is really handy because it helps me ensure our site runs smoothly, whether it's turning systems on or off. Just last night, there was a system failure, but thanks to real-time monitoring, I quickly identified the problem and got the necessary replacement parts."

"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."

"Fortinet's customer support is very good."

"FortiMonitor offers comprehensive monitoring capabilities, allowing me to track network traffic in and out effectively."

"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."

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"One of the key reasons for going for it was the knowledge of the things that they put in the product."

"We get full visibility into whatever the customer wants us to monitor and we get it pretty rapidly. That is very important. Only having certain metrics that other platforms will give you out-of-the-box means you only get a small picture, a thumbnail picture. Whereas with LogicMonitor, you get the entire "eight by 10 picture", out-of-the-box. Rather than some availability metrics, you get everything. You get metrics on temperature, anything related to hardware failure, or up and down status."

"It's the depth of data that it gathers that I find really useful because there's nothing worse, when you're trying to find information about something or dig deeper into something, than hitting the bottom of the information really quickly and not having enough information to work with. With LogicMonitor, there is a load of information to dig through. It's a really good solution for that."

"The most valuable feature of LogicMonitor is the infrastructure monitoring capability."

"Another feature from the technical aspect, the back-end, is the ability to allow individual users or customers to have their own APIs. They're able to make changes using the plugins covered by LogicMonitor. That is a very powerful feature that is more attractive to our techno-savvy customers."

"We only have one monitoring tool, and that is LogicMonitor. It does pretty much everything we need under one roof. They are very good at rapidly releasing new features. It's not like we have to wait six months or a year between new features and data sources. There is very quick development. If there is something that doesn't do it for us, I know I can just raise it with support or our delivery representative, and there is a good chance that that will be looked at. If it's not too much effort, we will see it released in the next few months. So, the solution is very good from that perspective. We have everything in LogicMonitor."

"LogicMonitor helps us prevent potential downtime. It's pretty good. It generates low-level warnings that aren't necessarily preemptive but can still alert us to issues we should investigate. These warnings allow us to correlate data and identify areas where we should take action, even if the issues aren't critical."

"LogicMonitor is good for getting a full view of your topologies. They have LiveMaps, which give you a visual representation of your infrastructure."

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Cons

"The tool's price in Vietnam is high, making it an area of concern where improvements can be made."

"There are areas for improvement that FortiManager is addressing."

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

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

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

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

"FortiMonitor could improve by having compatibility with other operating systems, such as Linux."

"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."

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"Dashboarding capabilities could be enhanced. It is cumbersome, you must do it all at once, and then you must repeat the process every now and then."

"LogicMonitor can be improved when we go to the settings page. In the new version, the navigation is easier but the buttons are very close to each other and sometimes when I'm clicking on something else, I'm clicking on the next button."

"We would like to see more functionality around mapping of topologies, in terms of networks."

"The container monitoring seems to be really behind compared to some bespoke cloud-native monitoring solutions that are designed around Kubernetes, containers, and ephemeral environments."

"Regarding LogicMonitor's AI capabilities, I think its governance and security are in initial phases, so reliability is low."

"LogicMonitor tends to continuously ping the servers and the environment, which can create a lot of false alerts."

"There are some very specific things that need improvement in LogicMonitor. One is the lack of formatting for customized alerts, particularly the delivery of them to our email channel. We'd also like to see further customization of dashboards. Finally, something that is specific to us as an MSP that uses LogicMonitor, is white-labeling or skinning of the product, so we can make it look more customer-focused for our customers."

"Automated remediation of issues has room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"FortiMonitor's price is very high."

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"The pricing can be a little aggressive. Right now, it's a bit much for smaller organizations to adopt it. But comparatively, it also provides good features."

"The licensing side of things with LogicMonitor, is quite simple. It is one license per device. Recently, you have additional licenses with things, like LM Cloud, which does confuse things a bit. Because it's very hard to estimate how many licenses you're going to need until you're monitoring it, so it's quite hard through that process to give a customer price to say, "This is how much this services will cost.""

"The license is annual, and I'm not fully aware of what it costs. We have a through-cycle that we go through, and they've been generous with us going above our limit. They're not strict on it. At the end of the year, they got us to renew. We always add some cushion for what we expect. Also, if you need custom monitoring or design work, you can pay them for consulting services."

"It definitely pays for itself in the amount of time we're not spending with false errors or things that we haven't quite dealt with monitoring. It has been good cost-wise."

"LogicMonitor is competitively priced at the same level as other vendors, like Datadog."

"I know we are saving at least several hundred thousand dollars in that we're not buying Cisco Prime."

"We've had customers who have reduced their costs by not having multiple platforms for monitoring. That said, especially with super-large environments, the cost model for LogicMonitor is the one area where we run into issues."

"The solution is not expensive."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

Manufacturing Company

11%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Computer Software Company

Construction Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	8
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	6

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	13
Midsize Enterprise	13
Large Enterprise	31

Questions from the Community

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...

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.

What needs improvement with FortiMonitor?

There are areas for improvement that FortiManager is addressing. We have not yet upgraded to the latest software versions, being a full revision behind, but we plan to update soon since the current...

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

It actually depends on the exact purpose or requirements. Some tools are better for only network devices while others are better from a cloud monitoring or APM monitoring perspective. You can check...

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for LogicMonitor?

My experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing is that the licensing model has changed and is very confusing as it currently stands and overly complicated.

What needs improvement with LogicMonitor?

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Overview

FortiMonitor excels in user monitoring and network operations, with its central management and intuitive dashboard. Known for reducing administrative costs and enhancing security awareness, it also provides seamless integration with other devices.

FortiMonitor supports dual-factor authentication, alert systems, and system health monitoring, proving essential for technical teams managing infrastructures and FortiGate activities. Despite its benefits, there are areas like compatibility and pricing where improvements are sought. It offers high-level monitoring, customizable dashboards, and alert capabilities which are critical in busy environments, especially for detecting harmful activities and ensuring efficient CPU utilization.

What features enhance FortiMonitor's efficiency?

User Monitoring: Monitors end users and logs effectively.
Traffic Analysis: Offers comprehensive insights into network traffic.
Dual-factor Authentication: Enhances security with two-step verification.
Centralized Management: Streamlines operations with an intuitive dashboard.
Proactive Alerts: Provides redundancy and instant notifications for potential issues.
Seamless Integration: Easily integrates with other devices for continuity.

What benefits and ROI should be evaluated?

Cost Reduction: Lowers administrative costs significantly.
Security Awareness: Improves security management efficiency.
Data Continuity: Ensures continuous operations with automated vendor configuration.
Efficiency Gains: Adapts to new vendors and enhances CPU utilization.

FortiMonitor is widely implemented in industries for end-user monitoring, security tracking, and infrastructure management. It's crucial for environments needing high-level monitoring and identifying hardware problems, where proactive management and customizable dashboards are key to maintaining operations.

Fortinet

LogicMonitor offers flexible IT monitoring with customizable dashboards and robust alerting capabilities. It integrates seamlessly with third-party apps like ServiceNow and provides a single-pane view for diverse IT environments, aiding in proactive issue resolution and enhancing operational efficiency.

LogicMonitor stands out with its capability to monitor diverse infrastructures including Cisco Voice systems, data centers, and virtual environments. Supporting servers, storage, networking devices, and applications, it provides seamless integration with cloud services like AWS and Azure. Users leverage its scalability and flexibility, benefiting from dynamic thresholds, anomaly detection, and detailed visualization. All these features contribute to improved management of IT assets and streamlined operations. Users suggest improvements in mapping, reporting, and automation for remediation, desiring more customizations and an expansive application performance monitoring toolset.

What are LogicMonitor's key features?

Customizable Dashboards: Allows personalization of monitoring views.
Robust Alerting: Offers advanced alert configurations.
API and Plugin Support: Ensures integration with apps like ServiceNow.
Dynamic Thresholds: Facilitates proactive issue resolution.
Anomaly Detection: Aids in identifying potential issues early.

What ROI should users look for in reviews?

Operational Efficiency: Enhanced by detailed visualizations and dashboards.
Scalability: Supports growing IT environments effortlessly.
Proactive Management: Facilitated by flexible alerting and monitoring.
Flexibility: Customization in monitoring diverse environments.

LogicMonitor is widely implemented across industries, providing monitoring for infrastructure in sectors like telecommunications, cloud computing, and managed services. Managed service providers particularly value its ability to track client environments, deliver proactive alerts, and generate comprehensive reports, while its integration with cloud platforms like AWS and Azure offers users centralized management and visibility into IT assets worldwide.

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