Fortinet FortiSIEM vs vRealize Network Insight comparison

"FortiSIEM's log correlation is good."

"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is less costly than other products and is available 24/7."

"The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."

"The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."

"FortiSIEM is a great tool for making security processes transparent."

"FortiSIEM's best features are the dashboards and customization."

"It gives us the opportunity to generate notifications based upon rules that get triggered, and the rules could be specific to PCI, HIPAA, GIBA, NIST, and so forth."

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"The best feature of this application is its ability to capture everything within the same application, as well as capture all the traffic."

"It especially helps with deploying NSX, that you're not having to manually chase down and figure out what you need to do to microsegment VMs. This gives a nice option where you can say, "Hey, this VM, show me what flows are there." I can export it out and then import it as an NSX rule and job done."

"By doing dependency mapping, it makes migrations more efficient. There are less outages that require engineers to spend additional hours troubleshooting the migration failures."

"The most valuable feature for me is the different views that you can get when selecting an application or a VLAN. It shows you the traffic flows. It gives you a visual representation of something that, in text, just may not make as much sense."

"It allows us to see how the network devices function as well as to see network glitches or fluctuations or dropping of packets."

"It allows us to go from virtual through NSX, up to the core, and see all of that in one pane of glass, it's pretty easy."

"A lot of time is saved when you use this type of software solution for the network. We have moved systems into the new data center and the servers and systems are much faster because of the very low latency between virtual machines."

"There could be more AI features included in the product."

"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."

"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."

"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"

"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."

"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."

"The graphs on the user interface could be improved as we often experience glitches."

"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 product is slightly complex use, while still being user-friendly. It could use more training modules, as it is not a straightforward product."

"The only reason I would not give it a nine or a 10 is for cost reasons. It seems to be one of those things that really belongs as part of the product inherently and not as an add-on. That would be my only concern."

"There are some random glitches in the Web UI, but they are usually pretty cosmetic in nature. I don't really seem to use any browser other than Chrome with it. I also get some weird errors from time to time on the hardware NetFlow Collectors, where it doesn't sync data."

"I would like to see more reporting features, more dashboards."

"The virtual appliance has rebooted."

"The compatibility with each and every component of the infrastructure is the main thing that I am looking for. I would like them to make sure that it's compatible with different kinds of storage systems, etc. I have seen the compatibility list. I feel it can be more compatible than it is right now."

"There is room for improvement when it comes to pricing because we pay here in Brazil, and all the costs are based on the dollar."

"Since Broadcom acquired VMware, it has been experiencing challenges. Many sales processes are not well defined."

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

"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."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight out of ten. Compared with Splunk or Oracle, Fortinet is cheap."

"The tool is really expensive. For what the tool does for our team, the price is fair."

"We pay for a license for FortiSIEM. We pay for the license and renewal."

"Its price can be better. We are Fortinet partners, so we can get discounts, but its price can be an issue at the beginning for others. There is a licensing scheme for every case. There are three licensing schemes that we can choose from."

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

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

"It reduces costs. It takes something that may be challenging and makes it more usable and visual by being able to bring in tools, seeing what their impact is, such as microsegmentation and application rationalization, and seeing it quickly."

"It has brought more money into our company."

"It's a little expensive, but for what you're getting out of the product, you often see the trade-off. It depends on the type of licensing you have. It might be a little too pricey for some."

"It's an expensive product because we have a lot of nodes."

"I rate vRealize Network Insight's pricing a seven point five out of ten."

"The solution has reduced the time that we spend on other products. For example, with NSX, we were able to quickly find things that we would normally spend days trying to figure out."

"They should include the product in NSX because it's important to have it for deployment."

"Cost always has room for improvement, you could always make it cheaper. But I think it's a good value for what you pay for it."