We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Fortinet, Cisco, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"Technical support is great. When we have sent urgent tickets and they do reply back within fifteen minutes."
"The integration is quite good."
"You can configure it at your ease."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiManager is the ease of manageability and policy-pushing functionality."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"It makes management very easy."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The most valuable feature is that it provides network segregation for server monitoring."
"The solution allows you to configure and customize how you want to collect information from servers or other systems."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The solution allows for good integration with other products."
"We are able to monitor our virtual infrastructure, virtual machines, windows servers, databases, and the network using a simple network management protocol. We are able to pull almost all the metrics that we want, receive notifications, and have them integrate with telegrams for certain devices that are critical, such as UPSs."
"Within the management of some features on FortiManager, specifically the management of user objects used for VPN service, FortiManager is quite weak."
"The CLI could be enhanced."
"The GUI is not ideal."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"You cannot integrate with other solutions."
"It requires a lot of resources. This is the main challenge."
"Wizards could be improved in pushing policies."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"In terms of user-friendliness, large maps could be more interactive. We should be able to click on some areas and move some objects. It would make it simpler to see things while analyzing some dedicated parameters."
"We would like to monitor other touchpoints such as ATM machines. It would be great if it can provide monitoring of ATM machines. Compatibility with other products would also be great."
"The stability could be better."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"It would be helpful if they translated the documentation to Cyrillic languages."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 1st in Network Management Applications with 42 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 2nd in Network Monitoring Software with 40 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up, quick response to threats, and collaborates well with other Fortinet products". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Very mature, easy to scale, and free to use". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Nagios XI, Nagios Core, Splunk Enterprise Security and Centreon.
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