We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and VMware Aria Operations for Logs based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"It supports SQL for logging and reporting. Log data is inserted into the SQL database for log view and report generation."
"It is a simple and solution."
"The solution allows for a lot of customization."
"The feature that I have found the most valuable is to be able to see everything in our network in a single task. A single menu and the graphical bar charts that it provides to give insights are very useful. It also gives very good metrics on bandwidth utilization, CPU, and device performance. It is very simple and easy to use as well."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since, in our company, we have never experienced the solution crashing or having any other issues."
"The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use."
"The most important feature is to be able to get reports or information about the state of all firewalls."
"The trace log is the solution's most valuable feature. It's very helpful in troubleshooting problems."
"Log Insight correlates with the VMware product log. It can assemble the logs you want, making it easier to find the output, incident, or keyword you want to search."
"The most valuable feature is server virtualization. It's been very useful."
"We are using it because we have a VMware product. It has its own built in dashboards for VMware products, and that's a good thing."
"It is a very useful tool if you have a VMware environment."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"It gives the customer a quick overview, so they don't have to dig. There's a clear dashboard with many sensors in a single space. He gets a helicopter view of his environment, but he can investigate further if there are serious issues. It's pretty user-friendly."
"The solution lacks business intelligence features. It's much too basic."
"From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities."
"The solution costs too much."
"We would like to see some improvement on the upgrade process around this solution. There are sometimes communication issues when a new version of the firewall is implemented, and it fails to report back to this product."
"The technical support is not very good."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not good at managing multi-version environments. If all your FortiGate are at different versions in the field, that's difficult. The one thing we didn't like is the fact you have to have 100% of your environment at the same release, which is not pleasant, to have it fully functional. You can have a different release, but to have it fully functional 100% of your environment has to be the same release."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by having better integration with other vendors."
"The technical support takes at least two days to reply on any ticket post raised on their website."
"In vRealize login files, we have limitations regarding log partitions."
"The solution should be more user-friendly. The user interface and dashboard could be simplified."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"Log retention should have more options for user control."
"The dashboard needs to be improved because this is what I need to monitor my infrastructure."
"Integration with other vendors is something that could be improved, they could add more vendors."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"I would like to see more tutorials or at least an introduction video from the supplier, so you can become proficient and get the most out of the solution. You might not get the full benefit from a logging or reporting solution because you might not have a particular tool enabled. You could leave something out of your analysis because you aren't aware of it or you don't know how to set it up."
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and Nagios Log Server, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and Wazuh. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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