Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Statseeker comparison

"It detects new technologies, vulnerabilities, and emerging threats on the internet."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. CMDB database collects data from a lot of pre-configured devices."

"One of the most valuable features is that we can combine SOC and NOC operations in the same tool. We can provide NOC and SOC services in the same tool for two separate teams. There are plenty of third-party solutions that integrate with FortiSIEM. All these solutions already have a ready integration, and we have the possibility to create a custom connector for these solutions. Its reports are also very good."

"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."

"I like the various options, including the option for CMDB and the easier access to create rules, playbooks, or use cases. It's also easier to use for creating dashboards and reports."

"It's a very nice solution to work with."

"These aspects make Fortinet FortiSIEM a valuable choice."

"It catches frequent flapping of the network and provides detailed reports of outages."

"The most important feature is just the fact that it doesn't aggregate the information up, and I can look at detailed information going back quite a long time."

"Statseeker helps to quickly see if you have a spike or something going on. In the future, we need to get NetFlow in the tool so we can see what the IP is."

"Being able to look back historically at the uptime and downtime is invaluable."

"In terms of network visibility, Statseeker can be very granular. We can tell it exactly where we want it to go and where we want it to check, or it can do an SNMP walk and find out where everything is. It's very detailed."

"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."

"If you need a product that's able to monitor all the ports in your environment or all the ports that you want, this is a great product to use. Statseeker is quite flexible in tailoring the product, spending time tailoring the product with you. It's fairly low maintenance. It's quite quick."

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

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

"The dashboard needs to improve."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is a little out of sight and needs more marketing efforts to be popular in the market."

"The only drawback is the licensing model. It can get expensive if you want to integrate more solutions."

"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."

"The support of the product changed recently, and I don't think it's for the better. They should work to improve the support they offer to clients."

"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."

"The challenge I face with Fortinet FortiSIEM is the lack of support."

"There is a little bit of room to improve in the alerting section to give some more options there. It's all I can think of right now off the top of my head."

"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)."

"We haven't seen an ROI."

"I would like to have soft alarming. If an inner-base all of a sudden triggers a threshold, we have to rely on a lot of other tools and then we go into Statseeker to verify it. If Statseeker would confirm it preemptively and trigger it into our network panel, that would be nice."

"The interface could be more user-friendly and it would be nice if there were enhanced options for reporting."

"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."

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

"This solution would be improved with better automatic discovery for ping-only devices."

"We bought the perpetual license, so we own the product, but there is a three-year support renewal fee for that."

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

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

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

"Manageable, however would be better as pay as you go versus CapEX."

"Please be cheaper and more simplified."

"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."

"They have a yearly subscription."

"Up until we actually talked to Statseeker, and Statseeker came and gave us an enterprise licensing model for multiple accounts, I would have said the pricing was not good value. The fact they've come to the party now and given us a very good discount, I would say it's probably about right, the pricing they're giving us now. But the retail pricing, if I went out and, as a separate company, and asked for pricing for one account, I probably would say their retail pricing is not competitive. The fact that they've given us a discount now because we have multiple servers across multiple accounts, I would say that pricing is about right, but not their retail pricing. It's too expensive."

"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."

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"When it came to selecting this solution, it came down to cost."