FortiMonitor vs Splunk AppDynamics comparison

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Fortinet and Splunk are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Fortinet is ranked #43 with an average rating of 9.0, while Splunk is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.1. Fortinet holds a 0.8% mindshare in IM, compared to Splunk’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of Splunk users who would recommend it.

FortiMonitor

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90% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Mar 1, 2026

Splunk AppDynamics and FortiMonitor compete in the IT monitoring and analytics domain. Data indicates that Splunk AppDynamics has the upper hand with its comprehensive analytics and robust integration capabilities, whereas FortiMonitor stands out for its streamlined solutions and cost-effectiveness.

Features: Splunk AppDynamics provides advanced analytics, seamless integration with third-party systems, and in-depth insights across IT infrastructures. FortiMonitor offers a simplified interface, focuses on core monitoring capabilities, and provides an efficient user experience.

Room for Improvement: Splunk AppDynamics could improve its setup time and resource requirements. Enhancing the ease of use for smaller organizations may also be beneficial. FortiMonitor could expand its features to include more advanced analytics. Improving integration capabilities with third-party applications and offering more extensive real-time data analysis may be areas to explore.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Splunk AppDynamics requires more setup time and resources but offers flexible deployment models and highly regarded customer support for complex queries. FortiMonitor is ideal for quick setups with a streamlined deployment process and accessible, responsive customer service, catering to rapid implementations.

Pricing and ROI: Splunk AppDynamics involves a higher setup cost justified by its extensive functionalities, attracting organizations prioritizing capabilities over initial investment. FortiMonitor's competitive pricing offers significant ROI, making it attractive for businesses focusing on essential monitoring at a lower cost.

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Categories and Ranking

FortiMonitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

43rd

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (31st), IT Alerting and Incident Management (18th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (10th)

Splunk AppDynamics

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

4th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

6.6

Number of Reviews

278

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (1st), IT Operations Analytics (2nd), Mobile APM (1st), Container Monitoring (1st)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2026, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of FortiMonitor is 0.8%, up from 0.7% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Splunk AppDynamics is 2.5%, down from 2.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
Splunk AppDynamics	2.5%
FortiMonitor	0.8%
Other	96.7%

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

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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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Yasir Amin

Sr. Solution Architect, Project Manager at The National Commercial Bank

Root cause analysis has become possible but complex setup and agent issues still slow investigations

The limitations I notice include the instability of the agent, which crashes, and the application itself consuming memory under heavy loads. Additionally, the customizations are not easy to build, especially for new parsers and functionalities that are just supported out-of-the-box. Splunk AppDynamics needs to be more user-friendly so that even someone who does not know what is happening should be able to easily find the root cause of issues, as the tool is specifically designed for application developers, not from a user perspective for problem identification. My experience with the application performance monitoring capabilities of Splunk AppDynamics indicates that it is complex. The correlation from the front end to the back end is not working properly. In an application using the EUM feature and having the app agent, the app agent gives me the transaction data, but the EUM data does not correlate to the backend transactions, and I do not know why. It can be very complex to find the root cause in those scenarios, as there is a disparity in metrics, making it challenging. Even though Splunk AppDynamics is trying, my very large environment presents hurdles that medium-scale organizations might not experience. After spending around three to four years trying to get value from it, I still feel a lack of satisfaction. To get closer to a rating of 10 in the future, I would like to see whatever features are being provided made to work, particularly in large environments. Splunk AppDynamics claims it can do 100 things, but if those things are not functioning cohesively, it is ineffective. Instead of offering 100 features that do not work together, it would be better to focus on a smaller set of features that operate effectively. Changes happen daily with new applications and technologies, and Splunk AppDynamics needs to adapt more swiftly to keep up. The feature that helps detect and protect against vulnerabilities does raise concerns. I experience vulnerabilities in Splunk AppDynamics that I communicate to support for fixes, and they often respond by indicating that some fixes are available in new versions. This creates a continuous cycle of raising issues and waiting for resolutions through version updates.

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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

"FortiMonitor is 100% stable."

"It provides the best firewall features."

"Overall, I would recommend FortiMonitor to others."

"The solution helps to see client infrastructure. It has many boxes and blinks green or red when the station goes up or down. We have different domains for the device groups that we monitor."

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

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

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

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

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"Recently, it helped us discover some security issues, which now we see have been there for few years."

"Technical support is excellent; they are very responsive and technically intelligent."

"We have cut our MTTR by half just by deploying agents."

"It provides everything into one view, so we can track information from one place to another."

"A solution like AppDynamics is a definite advantage because it can pinpoint the areas that the person(s) reviewing the issue need to focus on, making the technicians a lot faster in remediating issues that an application is presenting."

"After installation of APM, we realized the value within five or ten minutes."

"AppDynamics' best feature is automation - for example, when I add a note, it can understand the data automatically."

"There are many features that are very valuable to us, but the ability to monitor the status of the users' experience in real-time is one of them."

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Cons

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

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

"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."

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

"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."

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

"For our type of country, it is always expensive, but it has competitive pricing."

"FortiMonitor needs to improve its alert system."

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"The graphical display of the monitoring data is very simple and unscientific."

"I have found it sometimes a bit difficult to trace the transaction all the way through to the application. I'm not sure if that problem is on the database side or on the application side, but that would be something that I would like to be improved. The traceability from the application to the database, sometimes, is a bit of a challenge. If you're using AppDynamics, with the Java agent, for instance, you need to be able to trace it through."

"I think AppDynamics is not really there yet. The scalability should be very easy."

"Regarding Search Guard functionality, there is room for improvement."

"The infrastructure is not as good as other solutions."

"The scalability could be improved. There is a limitation in terms of the technology that can be supported."

"I would like to see something that lets me set real dollar figures, not just to outages, but to the solutions as well... when I'm looking at problems and have found a problem that I know I need to address. I could flag it off and have AppDynamics estimate how long a person would have taken to find that without it. That would give me a lot of leverage for justifying the existence of APM, which I really need."

"I would like to see more artificial intelligence and machine learning brought in to monitor the statement and payment sum issues we have."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"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."

"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."

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

"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."

"FortiMonitor's price is very high."

"The price of AppDynamics could be reduced in my region."

"We have two different licensing models for this solution. One of them is the agent based model, which requires payment per agent. The other is an infrastructure based model, where the price is based on the CPU core. For the infrastructure model wholesale level pricing applies. All of the up to date licensing prices for this product are available on the manufacturers website."

"As a technical person, and as an application development team, they all understand that this is the right tool for us. But when it comes to budget and financial matters, it takes days and weeks to convince upper management to buy this tool. So they should do something more on licensing costs."

"We have purchased a few licenses for AppDynamics Database Monitoring and the price is high."

"Because it is priced per JVM, the price can increase pretty fast, into the millions. We have had challenges because we had to justify the price to our clients, as well, when we are putting in certain tools."

"The pricing of the solution is reasonable for what features you receive."

"The licensing scheme is very complex. They need to make it easier."

"It would be better if there were more solutions incorporated into the base price. "

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

10%

Comms Service Provider

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Outsourcing Company

10%

Construction Company

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	9
Midsize Enterprise	2
Large Enterprise	5

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	64
Midsize Enterprise	38
Large Enterprise	208

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 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 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...

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Any advice about APM solutions?

There are many factors and we know little about your requirements (size of org, technology stack, management systems, the scope of implementation). Our goal was to consolidate APM and infra monitor...

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What needs improvement with AppDynamics Server Monitoring?

There is room for improvement in auto-discovery and mapping. While it is very good, sometimes we need customization to match our application or business needs, but currently it is satisfactory. If ...

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What is your primary use case for AppDynamics Server Monitoring?

I use Splunk AppDynamics data collection features with agents. It is on-premises, particularly in hybrid and on-premises environments. I have used Splunk AppDynamics for business transaction monito...

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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.

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Splunk AppDynamics is a comprehensive performance monitoring tool providing end-to-end transaction tracking, real-time monitoring, and a user-friendly interface. With AI-powered features, it enhances operational efficiency and resilience by offering insights into user interactions and infrastructure issues.

Splunk AppDynamics excels in monitoring applications and infrastructure performance, offering extensive support across environments like AWS and cloud. It aids in application performance monitoring, end-user experience, database analysis, and proactive incident detection. Supporting Java, .NET, and other technologies, it provides real-time insights into application health, resource utilization, and transaction tracking, ensuring reliable user experiences. Challenges remain in UI complexity, agent-based architecture, integration with diverse environments, and documentation clarity. Its licensing model is costly, and customer support may be slow. Performance concerns exist in historical data granularity and network visibility.

What features make Splunk AppDynamics stand out?

End-to-End Transaction Tracking: Monitors entire user transactions for comprehensive visibility.
Real-Time Monitoring: Provides instant insights into system performance.
AI-Powered Anomaly Detection: Identifies anomalies with advanced machine learning techniques.
Code-Level Troubleshooting: Diagnoses issues at the code level for precise fixes.
Business Transaction Visibility: Offers detailed views into transaction flow across all system layers.

What benefits and ROI can users expect from Splunk AppDynamics?

Improved Application Performance: Enhances system efficiency and reliability.
Operational Efficiency: Streamlines monitoring and issue resolution processes.
Enhanced Business Resilience: Strengthens the ability to adapt to performance challenges.
Seamless User Experiences: Ensures uninterrupted service and user satisfaction.

Organizations in industries like finance and healthcare implement Splunk AppDynamics to monitor critical applications and infrastructure. Its capabilities in transaction tracking and AI-driven insights are crucial for maintaining system reliability, supporting technologies such as Java and .NET, and ensuring optimal resource utilization.

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