Fortinet FortiAnalyzer Reviews

I am using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for tracing anything that happens in the network.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by having better integration with other vendors.

I have been using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for approximately five years.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is highly stable.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.

We have five managers that are using the solutions.

The support was great for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer.

I rate the support from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a four out of five.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer was simple. The full deployment took approximately two or three hours.

We used a local partner of Fortinet that was assisting us with the deployment. We had a two-person team for the deployment.

I rate Fortinet FortiAnalyzer an eight out of ten.

The primary use cases are log management and the reporting fraud forum. It provides a vision of the network.

From my perspective, we need to see the traffic in a good way so we can know what has happened in our network. The analyzing tools and the monitoring tools and the logs are the important part in the network.

The traffic monitoring could be better, and stability could be improved.

I have been using this solution for about two years.

The solution should be more stable.

For the cloud version, you can expand it as you need it.

I haven't contacted technical support.

The solution is easy to install.

FortiAnalyzer was in the product itself, but two years ago they split it from Fortinet. We paid the license two years ago.

I would rate this solution 9 out of 10. 

I can recommend this solution for other users. 

The primary use case for Analyzer, is for keeping the logs and for different types of reporting.

The features that our customers have found most valuable are their different type of reports including the drill down report, as well as the flexibility to connect to any number of appliances which can be connected to it centrally.

In terms of what can be improved, of course the cloud storage possibilities are there, but the cost and the renewal parts are high. Pricing-wise, it not affordable for the normal customer. Most of the people want to see different types of reporting, but FortiAnalyzer's fee is a little bit difficult.

We have been selling and supporting FortiAnalyzer for customers for three to four years.

All the Fortinet services are very stable products.

Maintenance and networking are under the Fortinet warranty so we cannot do anything on that. It means we can just coordinate things. It is based on the ticket.

I don't think the built-in memory can be upgraded for the Analyzer. I think it is not possible. That means that the hardware is more suitable for large companies.

Their support is fairly good.

The initial setup was simple.

In terms of fees, one is subscription and one is the hardware warranty. There are two types of subscriptions - one is a security subscription and the other one is the support.

A lot of products are coming with built-in facilities, but FortiAnalyzer is a much better solution. People may like it, but affordability is a problem.

For customers who need to have different types of reporting presentable to different levels of hierarchy, FortiAnalyzer is a lovely solution. Otherwise, there is no point in getting some logs. It should be presentable.

On a scale of one to ten, I'll give FortiAnalyzer an eight or nine.

The normal use case for FortiAnalyzer is log review, log analysis, etc.

FortiAnalyzer makes it much easier for us to find an apparently compromised host on the network.

FortiAnalyzer has a robust ability to find a compromised host on your network, and when you identify a compromised host, you can address it.

Though FortiAnalyzer has improved over the last few versions, the user interface still has room for improvement. It's a bit dated-looking. I guess that's the nicest way to describe it. In FortiAnalyzer, I would like the ability to turn off some of the services. So, for example, FortiAnalyzer can take data from FortiCamera products and turn off the FortiCamera stuff to lighten the load on the box or turn off the FortiSock product.

I've been using FortiAnalyzer for about seven years.

FortiAnalyzer is really stable. It runs very well on its own and doesn't really need much TLC. It's a good product.

It's pretty scalable. The units that we have are the right size for the amount of stuff that we're running, but they do have products that scale up to handle significantly more Fortigate firewalls in log stuff than we do. I would say about 20 people use FortiAnalyzer. There's me, the security engineer, and the network engineering team, which uses it to look at stuff on the firewalls or check the firewall logs. And our information security group uses it to look at stuff that's going on with the firewalls as well as compromised hosts. It is being used pretty well as we get further down the path of deploying our FortiGate-managed endpoint product. There'll be more users and probably more use cases for it in the future.

I haven't really used a different solution previously. We've always used FortiAnalyzer in concert with Splunk.

FortiAnalyzer is a pretty straightforward product to deploy. It took half a day to deploy a pair of FortiAnalyzers and set them up in high availability mode. I deployed it by myself. These are hardware appliances, so there were a couple of devices that needed to be racked, powered, and configured.

I believe that these devices were procured with a five-year maintenance and support license up front. I work at a university, so the vendor provides a considerable higher ed discount.

It's all part of our Fortinet ecosystem, so we didn't really consider alternatives. I have a significant investment in FortiGate firewalls, so it just made sense to add FortiAnalyzer.

I rate FortiAnalyzer eight out of 10. It does an outstanding job of what it does. But the vendor doesn't necessarily live up to the hype, which is why it only got an eight out of 10. There's a lot of hype about the Fortinet security fabric. But for the large customers that buy their large firewalls and deploy them in infrastructure components, the Fortinet fabric does not work. If you are considering FortiAnalyzer, I suggest having a complete understanding of how your firewall infrastructure works in terms of what data you're going to and from it for analysis and what you're looking for in that analysis.

For most of our customers, we are installing FortiAnalyzer as a VM-based solution. We installed a big analyzer for just one customer because they needed too much storage capacity. We have about 10 clients using it currently.

We prepare reports for our customers, and when the manager sees them, he's pleased. They show how many users connected, how many attacks happened, and the number of attacks stopped. The management of the IP depends on your report, so the customers need it. We are customizing these reports every day or every week, depending on what the customers need. We send emails with these reports, and the managers are also pleased about it. Also, technical guys are thrilled because they can solve problems very quickly. It's working on the SQL Server, so techs can do a quick search in real-time and see everything in the port analyzer's interface query.

FortiAnalyzer has a user-friendly interface with a quick response and good analytics. It's very secure because it's taking the log from the devices on a secure channel, so there is no problem with that in your network. Because you're getting the information from a secure channel, it's also possible to back it up in a storage solution. 

We have been installing FortiAnalyzer bundled with other products for about six or seven years.

Setting up FortiAnalyzer is very straightforward. It takes just 30 minutes or less. With our installation, we sent our FortiGates log, email logs, and other logs for the three devices we're currently running to the analyzers we are using within the public architecture.

The license depends on the storage capacity. If you want to take a log of up to 1 gigabyte daily, it's free, if I remember correctly. But if you want 5 gigabytes daily, it's licensed at different prices. The cost of FortiAnalyzer could be cheaper, especially when you are installing to a VM. For 90 percent of customers, the VM solution is enough. 

I would rate FortiAnalyzer 10 out of 10

We primarily use the solution in order to analyze data.

If you have two devices that need to communicate with each other, so you can see where any issue is as you can see every single communication. It shows the flux of communication.

The most valuable aspect of the solution is its ability to pinpoint where the issue is. If two devices need to communicate together, you can see which interfaces they are using. 

The stability has been very good so far. We haven't had any issues with it.

Technical support is always quite responsive and very helpful.

Overall, the product is quite good. It integrates well and has good reporting and logging.

The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use.

From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities. It's very complete for our purposes.

I've been working with the solution for less than a year. It's still quite new to me.

The product has been quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. Its been reliable in terms of performance overall.

I can't speak to the scalability. It's not an aspect of the solution I've tried to deal with. I'm unsure if it expands easily or if it would be difficult to do so.

I personally have opened two tickets with technical support in the past and everything has gone very well. They were knowledgeable and responsive and they helped me solve the issues. I have no complaints about their level of service. I've been very satisfied with them.

By the time I joined my current organization, the solution was already installed and configured. Unfortunately, I was not a part of the process and therefore can speak to how easy or difficult it was.

I don't handle the licensing or the costs. I can't speak to how much it is for our company or if it is expensive or affordable. I'm not privy to that kind of information.

That said, it's my understanding, as a comparison, that Fortinet products are cheaper than their Cisco counterparts.

We just installed our latest version a few weeks ago. It's the brand-new version of the product.

For those considering the solution, I've been told that it's cheaper to buy Fortinet or FortiGate instead of buying Cisco ASA. If cost is a concern, it might be a good idea to look at Fortinet.

We are just customers and end-users of Fortinet. We don't have a business relationship with them.

Overall, I would rate the solution at an eight out of ten. It's largely been very good.

As part of a company, we manage customers of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. The solution is used to analyze and locate traffic in a particular network. 

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer has helped my organization improve operational efficiency. The company has been using it for ten years. 

Report generation is very easy when using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. Checking and reading the logs becomes seamless with the solution. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer also allows fast logging on a license when requesting information. For example, when you are trying to locate a logged destination or using the tool to find an error or fault, the basic networking is very fast. 

The upgrade process for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is slow. 

I have been using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for four years. 

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a stable product. 

The solution is highly scalable. 

It's easy to deploy Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. The solution needs to be upgraded every two or three years. The product is very easy to maintain. 

Due to the multiple features and the large environment compatibility, the solution is quite expensive. I would rate the pricing an eight out of ten. 

At our company, Kibana is sometimes used to pull logs and develop graphical representations from it. 

I would rate the solution an eight out of ten. I would advise others never to jump into upgrading to the latest firmware; wait until the present environment products are being used. There have been bad releases in the past, so everyone needs to carefully analyze options. 

My clients mainly use Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for the log and automation.

This solution can be deployed on-premise and on the cloud.

The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the GUI and there is automation that can be done with playbooks and mini-books.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer can improve by introducing integration with other Fortinet solutions with automation with one interface would be helpful.

I have been using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for approximately four years.

The stability of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is good.

I rate the stability of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a ten out of ten.

The solution is scalable.

This solution is suitable for all sized companies.

I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a nine out of ten.

My clients had a mixed experience with the support from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. Some had good experiences and others had poor experiences.

I rate the support of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a ten out of ten.

Neutral

My customers have tried Palo Alto Panorama and we only had positive feedback from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer.

The initial setup of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is simple.

The price of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is expensive.

I rate the price of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a ten out of ten.

I rate Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a ten out of ten.