Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Statseeker comparison

"Fortinet FortiSIEM's most valuable feature is the simplicity in handling multi-tenancy and the ability to switch between different clients at the same time. That was handled flawlessly."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."

"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."

"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all the network events on a single pane and find the point of contact or point of the incident."

"The most valuable features of the solution is its integration with other technologies, especially its ability to collect logs from Cisco and Aruba devices along with Fortinet products."

"Technical support is helpful."

"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."

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

"The product simplifies monitoring by providing real-time alerts through a GUI dashboard, email and texts."

"We are a smaller enterprise, but we're watching approximately fifteen-thousand switchboards with no problem at all."

"This solution allowed us to track down trouble users."

"Key features for us are custom reporting, 95th Percentile, and trend lines."

"If somebody is complaining about slow networking then this solution allows us to see various ports to find out whether they are being overloaded."

"The solution reduces the complexity of our network monitoring because it can make my engineers do their jobs faster. The solution also reduces troubleshooting time for network administrators to pinpoint issues quicker."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is the simplicity of adding new devices into it."

"The most important for us is how fast this solution is, as well as the granularity that you can get to, such as per-minute statistics."

"The UI could improve in Fortinet FortiSIEM. Humans view the UI frequently for data and if it was more visually pleasing it would be beneficial."

"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."

"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."

"When compared with some competitors, in terms of performance, the CPU and RAM requirements and the capability of coordination with development all need some improvement."

"The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products."

"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."

"Customer support service could be better."

"Sometimes, if there are changes made by a user on a database server, it can be difficult to get that information on the fly. I would like to see a situation where once I specify a user with the database server I need, and with the changes they have performed on that, I don't need to continue my search pattern to drill down just to get the information."

"It could use more features on Netflow analyser, such as time series graphs and a single network export UDP port and UDP forwarding."

"It would be nice if they had twenty-four-hour technical support because we contact Australia and we have to wait for them to open."

"Configuration management: In configuration management it would be helpful if it would backup configuration files (running and start-up configuration) for devices. (Not sure if this is already available in the latest version)."

"That user interface for selecting things needs to be a little more intuitive."

"Detailed data can be hard to extract in CSV form. Sometimes, being able to dump down raw data would be good so various time periods across a longer period could be analysed. At present, data can be presented within Statseeker, but there is lots of "white space" between data points."

"I would like to see fully automatic updates so that our version is always current."

"The inclusion of configuration management features and SIP links would improve this solution."

"It doesn't do absolutely everything and it will require some additional software or hardware support to be a complete single solution."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is very cost-efficient compared to other SIEM solutions."

"Fortinet's products are not expensive, it is less than the competition."

"There are additional features that cost more than the standard licensing fees."

"This is probably more on the lower cost end of the spectrum compared to competing products. Fortinet's license model is based on events per second, which makes sense, but that's not typical. It makes it very hard to calculate what your costs are going to be as you scale the platform because some log sources, such as firewall logs, are very noisy, and there are lots and lots of events per second, but some of them are not. So, it becomes a bit of a science experiment trying to guess what your costs are going to be as you scale the solution. This is where other competing products perhaps have a more straightforward license model."

"Pricing is acceptable for more than 90% of our customers, as they normally get discounts."

"Pricing is determined based on the customer's budget."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM was reasonable compared to other solutions."

"They have a yearly subscription."

"We pay a yearly maintenance fee of approximately $40,000 USD."

"One thing that needs improvement is how it's licensed. I understand historically the company licensed it off a same charge for everyone. I understand the company needs to make money, but how they introduced the tiered licensing model, and then multiple layers of licensing was a bit of an issue. So, on the whole, coming up with a licensing model that isn't confusing and complicated and is easy to understand would be one way to improve the product. They have told me lately that they're changing how they license stuff, but they haven't made that - as I understand it - in their marketing material public knowledge as of yet. I would say that at the moment it's a bit convoluted. It's confusing. Some of their basic licensing model is a bit of a ripoff. If you go over five or ten support calls in the basic licensing model they start charging you for support calls. I think that's a bit rich."

"Compared to other solutions such as Zabbix and AKiPS, this solution is very well priced."

"The yearly cost varies as per the number of devices being monitored. The cost for 25,000 devices is about $4500."

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

"We now feel the pricing is a good value. Previously we had a just a normal license but now we've got an Enterprise license. Since the Enterprise, it's been a lot better value. We did think it was pretty expensive before, but with the Enterprise license it's almost less than half that price. If you have a number of accounts within the organization that use Statseeker, I would suggest get the Enterprise license."

"We have permanent licenses so there's really no cost, other than ongoing maintenance. When I think about it, that's running us about $20,000 a year."

"It's probably $5K a year for the license."