FortiMonitor vs PagerDuty Operations Cloud comparison

Fortinet and PagerDuty are both solutions in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category. Fortinet is ranked #9 with an average rating of 8.8, while PagerDuty is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.4. Fortinet holds a 1.3% mindshare in IMS, compared to PagerDuty’s 19.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 97% of PagerDuty users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 2, 2025

PagerDuty Operations Cloud and FortiMonitor compete in operational monitoring and incident management. Data suggests FortiMonitor has the upper hand due to its comprehensive feature set despite higher initial costs.

Features: PagerDuty Operations Cloud specializes in real-time incident management and automated workflows, improving operational efficiency. FortiMonitor provides extensive network visibility, proactive alerting, and comprehensive monitoring features, making it more robust.

Room for Improvement: PagerDuty Operations Cloud could enhance its feature set to be more comprehensive and improve integration with third-party tools. Its scalability in larger deployments might require attention. FortiMonitor could benefit from simplifying its setup process and expanding support for new vendors. It can also enhance user interface intuitiveness.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: PagerDuty Operations Cloud offers straightforward deployment and responsive customer support, ensuring smooth implementation. FortiMonitor, with a more complex deployment, provides personalized customer service, enhancing user experience.

Pricing and ROI: PagerDuty Operations Cloud is cost-effective with moderate ROI, suitable for price-sensitive customers. FortiMonitor, although higher in upfront cost, offers a superior long-term ROI due to its feature-rich offerings, providing greater value over time.

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Categories and Ranking

FortiMonitor

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

9th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (20th), IT Infrastructure Monitoring (23rd), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (7th)

PagerDuty Operations Cloud

Ranking in IT Alerting and Incident Management

1st

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Process Automation (10th), AIOps (13th), Critical Event Management (CEM) (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2025, in the IT Alerting and Incident Management category, the mindshare of FortiMonitor is 1.3%, up from 1.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PagerDuty Operations Cloud is 19.5%, down from 25.6% 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 (%)
PagerDuty Operations Cloud	19.5%
FortiMonitor	1.3%
Other	79.2%

IT Alerting and Incident Management

Featured Reviews

JaimeVasquez

Commercial Manager at IT-Experience

Monitoring capabilities keep operations running smoothly and alerts enhance proactive system management

We use FortiMonitor to monitor the infrastructure of our customers. We check on what is happening with their operations, monitor bandwidth, ensure configurations are appropriate for the customer, and identify if anything is going wrong The most valuable features of FortiMonitor are its redundancy…

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JeremyEmmett

Sr Director - Global Support APJ at HashiCorp

Centralized alert management with customizable routing and superior scheduling

Everything can always be better. Operations are somewhat limited by their integration package. For example, integrating with Jira was problematic until they updated to a better plug-in. The ability to build customized modules would be advantageous, allowing organizations to define their own integration modules. It would be useful to have a way to define all configurations in code that is similar to how Terraform operates.

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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

"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is the overall ability to monitor the health of the environment."

"FortiMonitor's dashboard is very informative and user-friendly."

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

"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."

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

"It provides the best firewall features."

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

"The product's initial setup phase is easy."

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"The solution's most valuable features are that it adds each alert as a service, has good scheduling capabilities, and includes the ability to write logic based on texts."

"The alerts are immediate in this solution, which allows us to respond to errors quickly."

"PagerDuty helps you bifurcate teams and redirect alerts to specific teams"

"The initial setup is a simple process."

"Alert deduplication and noise reduction for alerts are the major features that I found useful."

"The most valuable feature is definitely the flexibility of the schedule. The mobile app is quite also good for what we do: for receiving alerts, acknowledging, assigning, adding new responders. It has rich features for our needs."

"A cool feature is that it helps us to understand the flow of the alert. If the alert was coming to the current on-call and he didn't catch the call or didn't notice it for any reason, it starts being escalated automatically, according to the escalation schedule, or to other teammates. You can see the flow very easily on your phone or via the website, if you want to do a post-mortem."

"The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."

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Cons

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

". Enhancements in the dashboard, such as clearer alerting, maintenance window management, software version tracking, and better visualization, would be beneficial."

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

"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."

"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."

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

"I think the current features are really good for me, nothing else comes to mind right now. Maybe some small improvements could be made in the customization and configuration part of the UI to make it easier or more intuitive. Customizable UI options, like we saw in the demo, could be helpful for everyone. But in our operational environment, having clear health status and system details is crucial for us system engineers. One feature I'd really like to see is a credential management system. It would help us keep track of who's logged in and how many times, which is important due to user restrictions. Sometimes, we need to manage logins more efficiently, like logging off other users to free up credentials. So having a feature like that would be really helpful."

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

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"I would like to see more content in the notification messages; although, that might be a configuration on our end."

"PagerDuty could improve the event orchestration by enhancing features, such as easier condition setup inside the orchestration."

"I would like the UI to be more intuitive. I would like to be able to group or color-code the discoveries. When you create a system, you have a listing of all the different configurations. You can list them by teams, but some additional color coding would be helpful. I would break it down by incident controls. In other words, it should be broken down it into response teams and engineering divisions."

"It is difficult to send underlying trace files or statuses using PagerDuty."

"The biggest area for improvement with PagerDuty is noise suppression. There have been a handful of incidents through our use of PagerDuty over the years where one incident may lead to 30 to 50 pages because you're monitoring all these different things, and each thing is an individual page. There should be the ability to set up paging tiers and group correlations between some of the different pages. That is something that would be really valuable. We should be able to say this one page may have a group or a tree of effective other pages that may tier off of it. So, if you see those pages independently, go ahead and alarm, but if you see this plus that, don't do that."

"It is a very non-customizable product, so you cannot add things like root cause analysis or the classification of incidents based on the area where you are getting more incidents. For example, if you're getting a lot of database issues, that may be an are you want to probe."

"There is room for improvement with the time schedule. The way the schedule currently works is you assign all the team members in one schedule and it automatically spreads them around throughout the schedule... It would be better to be able to edit the schedule and place my team members where I want, or at least to have that option in addition to the automatic process."

"It’s quite hard to reach the support team."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"FortiMonitor's price is very high."

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

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

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

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

"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."

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

"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 cost is based on the package you select."

"The solution is paid on a monthly basis and represents about 1% of the platform's budget."

"There is a license needed to use PagerDuty."

"The cost is quite high. But if you want to get a full-featured application and you have a big team..."

"PagerDuty has monthly and yearly licenses available, the costs of which can get quite high if you have a large number of users."

"They're very good in pricing compared to the competitors in the area. I would rate them a five out of five in terms of pricing."

"The pricing may be about $1,000 per user."

"If we wanted phone calls or additional SMSs, we would have to pitch up for those. They give us so many per month per user, then we have to pay extra if it goes over that."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

25%

Manufacturing Company

Healthcare Company

Financial Services Firm

Computer Software Company

15%

Performing Arts

14%

Financial Services Firm

10%

Manufacturing 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	12
Midsize Enterprise	11
Large Enterprise	19

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...

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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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What do you like most about PagerDuty?

The product easily integrates with other solutions.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for PagerDuty?

The solution was expensive, but if all its features were utilized, it was considered worth the cost. The tier-based pricing model was cumbersome, and there was a desire for a service-based catalog ...

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Overview

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.

Fortinet

The PagerDuty Operations Cloud is the platform for mission-critical, time-critical operations work in the modern enterprise. Through the power of AI and automation, it detects and diagnoses disruptive events, mobilizes the right team members to respond, and streamlines infrastructure and workflows across your digital operations. The Operations Cloud is essential infrastructure for revolutionizing digital operations to compete and win as a modern digital business.

PagerDuty Features

PagerDuty has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

650+ integrations
Alerting
Native apps with push notifications
On-call duty scheduling
Automatic escalation of alerts
Reliable, distributed architecture
Incident reporting
Real-time monitoring
Network analysis
Issue tracking
Access controls/permissions
Service Level Agreement (SLA) management

PagerDuty Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing PagerDuty. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ideal for developers: With the PagerDuty solution, developers can spend more time focused on code. The solution’s powerful automation and noise reduction capabilities minimize interruptions and mobilize the right team in seconds.

Security incident response: Because of its integration ecosystem, PagerDuty enables you to respond to threats faster, tighten up security vulnerabilities, and get better cross-team visibility.

Critical event management: The solution makes it possible for your organization to get your crisis management team up and running quickly, keep all your business leaders and stakeholders informed in critical moments, and limit any disruptions that could impact your reputation or core business.

Service ownership: PagerDuty’s service ownership allows you to give everyone more autonomy, boost accountability, and minimize the impact of issues by quickly pulling in the right responder every time.

CollabOps: With this solution, you can integrate with chat and video tools like Slack, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams. Doing so makes it easier to contain incidents quickly, avoid manual errors, and streamline work across DevOps, CSOps, BizOps, and ITOps organizations.

Reviews from Real Users

Below are some reviews and helpful feedback written by PeerSpot users currently using the PagerDuty solution.

Brandon J., Director of engineering at a wellness & fitness company, says, "The SMS pages and the mobile application are pretty much the top two features."

PeerSpot reviewer Pramodh M., DevSecOps Consultant at a tech services company, comments, “The inbound integrations that PagerDuty provides with most of the DevOps tools are valuable. There is a flexible and easy way of integrating with monitoring tools. It allows us to configure the integration with APIs and plugins as well.”

Syed Mohammad A., Vice President - Operations and Client Services at a financial services firm, mentions, "PagerDuty let us set up rosters based on our shifts. We could assign a hierarchy for how the calls should be escalated and the number of times the call will be transferred between people before it is answered. It makes it easy to access an agent via mobile phone."

A Principal Architect at an energy/utilities company states, “The most important feature that is used is call scheduling. We are also able to actually call IT folks in the case of an emergency.”

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40% of the Fortune 100 TrustPagerDuty. Customers include: Slack, Intuit, Zendesk, Panasonic, Pinterest, Airbnb, eHarmony, McKesson, Comcast

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