Palo Alto Networks Panorama Valuable Features
I find this solution valuable for full monitoring, centralized control for reporting, and centralized management. These features are instrumental in achieving effective results.
View full review »One of the key advantages of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its unified platform that is quite similar to the firewall interface, making it easier for tech consultants to manage.
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Cliff Girodo
Consultant at a computer software company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama, in my case, is the reporting. It provides all the necessary information. However, when extracting reports to a CSV file, the lack of correlation to the actual report generated is an issue. You get a CSV file with a vague name, which is inconvenient when sorting through multiple reports. Naming the reports properly for easier identification would be helpful. Despite this, the tool allows for extensive customization of reports, which is a significant advantage.
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Buyer's Guide
Palo Alto Networks Panorama
June 2025

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Panorama has the capacity for SD-WAN configuration, which is appreciated alongside its capabilities for firewall management and firmware upgrades. The SD-WAN capability is particularly valued because it allows for easy management of firewalls remotely. It also provides a single pane of glass to manage its entire portfolio, offering cost savings as less manpower is needed.
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Tejas_Jain
Principal Security Architect at Deloitte
The valuable features of Panorama include log collection, policy optimization, ability to migrate policies from other platforms, and platform stability and uptime.
View full review »Panorama integrates security management by allowing easy modification of policy by account, IP, or application. This flexibility helps IT departments securely manage Internet security.
View full review »Palo Alto Panorama offers robust logging and reporting capabilities, allowing us to extract reports in a user-friendly GUI format with graphical representations. For example, we can track bytes sent and received for specific applications and users since we use Palo Alto XDR for analysis, reporting, and forensics.
We benefit from a certain level of customization in our reports, utilizing predefined templates and tailored reports. This includes user activity reports, application reports, and SaaS platform reports. We forward logs to a separate SIEM solution, enabling us to monitor TCP and inspect SSL traffic.
View full review »Managing the firewalls in the branch locations from a central management console is easier. We can schedule tasks like firmware updates and send rules or policies to all the firewalls in a single stretch. Palo Alto is one of the best firewalls we can have in our environment. It has one of the best back-end databases for signatures and behavior-based analysis. Recently, the vendors integrated it with a lot of AI for threat prevention. Palo Alto is a leader in the market.
View full review »The solution doesn't need a proxy for the Prisma Access Firewall.
We can maintain our own policies within the solution and block things from the proxy perspective.
View full review »The main value of Palo Alto Networks Panorama lies in its ability to centralize management, similar to FortiManager. It provides a single dashboard for all firewalls, allowing centralized control over different feeder systems based on Palo Alto. It's a comprehensive solution for managing firewalls globally.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its innovation and impressive capacity to handle network traffic efficiently.
View full review »In Panorama, installing the policy, and pushing the policy, it's quite seamless.
It is a centralized management tool. Instead of logging into each firewall and configuring it or deploying the policies, it's quite easy as everything is in one place. We can push the policy and install the policies centrally instead of individually on each firewall.
In order to push a policy via Panorama, we need to ensure that the firewall is syncing with the management server. I have hardly found any post-upgrade issue with the Panorama management server or the Palo Alto firewall. They are never out of sync.
The initial setup is straightforward.
It's scalable.
The solution is stable.
View full review »The most valuable aspect of Palo Alto Networks Panorama for me is the centralized management of multiple firewalls. It saves time, provides consolidated visibility into my network, and allows me to configure all firewalls from one web interface, eliminating the need to access each firewall separately.
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GokulAnand
Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
It was a good functional tool. When we had multiple Palo Alto devices to be managed, it provided a lot of visibility onto those solutions. It was a good and useful tool.
The solution helped us consolidate and use logs.
The UI was fine. The visualization would be almost similar to Palo Alto Firewalls.
Overall, the functionality was very good.
It was a stable product.
It's easy to set up.
View full review »The solution offers good logging features.
The management is great.
It is easy to set up.
The solution is stable.
I can scale well.
Using a Palo Alto solution is very straightforward.
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NoamRotter
Cloud Security Engineer at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees
Basically, in my firewalls, I usually create new signatures and deploy them for each endpoint firewall in each region. It's great for creating signatures and activating activities.
It's pretty user-friendly. The user interface is good.
The product has been stable.
View full review »It's really the central management component that helps us. From a configuration point of view, when we are implementing it for large organizations where the customer owns a hundred firewalls, it's just easy to manage them all at one central location. I think that's probably one of the best features from a visibility component.
View full review »Threat prevention and traffic monitoring are the most valuable features for us. We use them the most.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is the simplicity of rule management. Both this device group and template management are very easy to use.
Especially for big, worldwide clients, one of the most valuable features is being able to create some rules to place on the security groups.
View full review »What I like about Palo Alto Networks Panorama is that it's stable and setting it up isn't complex.
View full review »It's easy to deploy any software or policies. Even if you have multiple devices across the globe, if you have urgent searching or maybe policy enforcement, you can do it easily.
The interface is easy to understand and manage. It's an intelligent device and can capture any spyware or vulnerabilities.
It's a leader in the market, and they observe the market requirement and upgrade the software accordingly.
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Jumras Saeyang
Associate IT Director at Siam Makro PCL
Most firewalls are the same, however, it depends on the service. If they have a good service, that means they guarantee that our business does not have any impact. That is a very important part of business today.
Palo Alto is very user-friendly.
It's a stable solution
Technical support is quite helpful.
We can scale well.
View full review »Palo Alto Networks Panorama provides many features, such as alerts, traffic monitoring, and logs.
View full review »A valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is reporting because it gives you different reports on data, logs, and threats. It has easy policy management and control, NAT, PBF, decryption, and visibility.
I also like the centralized firewall management feature of the product.
The technical support for Palo Alto Networks Panorama is responsive.
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IanThompson
Security Analyst at ARINSO Deutschland
Feature-wise, Palo Alto Networks Panorama had a mix of everything. With the centralized view for the firewall, it was really convenient to have the same rule set for all. We could check everything from the logs, do some packet tracing, and more. In the beginning, we had BrightCloud as a database provider, but we eventually moved to Palo Alto Networks Panorama, which was also convenient. So, we can say that the ease of use was a big factor.
View full review »The most valuable feature of Palo Alto Networks Panorama is its ease of use.
View full review »The solution is easy to use.
View full review »Palo Alto Networks Panorama has a lot of features.
View full review »The entire ease of use is most valuable. If you're managing firewalls locally with PAN-OS, the look and feel of Panorama is the same. So, you don't have to relearn another product. If you're used to managing firewalls from Palo Alto, you can easily use Panorama to manage them. It looks and feels the same.
Our primary issue at the moment is to manage Prisma Access because we just switched over to using Prisma Access for our customers. My newest one is in North America. It is a great tool for that. The fact that you can push out your Prisma Access just dynamically and it changes into Prisma Access Cloud is fantastic.
View full review »Templates and the possibility to apply a configuration to many devices at the same time are the most valuable features. We are able to create templates, and we don't need to go to each firewall to make changes. We can make changes in Panorama, and it automatically applies those changes to all those firewalls on which we want to apply the changes. It provides centralized management.
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JamesJiang
IT Security Analyst at a energy/utilities company with 51-200 employees
I like the user ID and the application ID as it's easy to identify the popular applications and the EZT does the security checking in regards to the user and the application ID.
The initial setup is very easy.
The solution is easy to manage. It has a good interface as well.
The solution is stable.
The product can scale.
The solution offers good integration potential.
View full review »The solution is suitable for all sized businesses.
View full review »The product is very efficient.
View full review »I found logging and management features the most valuable in Palo Alto Networks Panorama.
Another good feature of the product is that it lets you define global firewall policies and templates. For example, if you have standard procedures, you can create a single template and apply it to all your firewalls. This feature is attractive to many users.
I also like that Palo Alto Networks Panorama is easy to configure and manage.
View full review »I like the quality of this product, and it performs. It's the best solution in the IT business.
View full review »I find the portal, and the filter function to be the most valuable features. I found it easy to learn how to pull information from the logs.
View full review »It's an excellent product. It's doing its job, and we like it. The ease of use is quite nice. Everything about the reporting and everything about Palo Alto Networks Panorama is good.
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Brijesh Rajput
Cybersecurity architect at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees
The most valuable feature is that the management unit is centralized, so you can manage different regions from one place.
View full review »Panorama enables you to provision all your firewalls and other things as a cluster. It is quite useful for that.
It is a very simple product. It does what it is designed to do.
View full review »The management and the deployment features are most valuable. We can easily deploy and manage the devices. We can do fast deployments without moving from our office and by just providing a short description to the end-user about how to install the physical device.
With Panorama you are able to manage a large number of firewall and to simplify change and incident management process .
With Panorama, firewall rules may be managed mixing preconfigured templates (common on all/some firewalls) and more specific rules
From Panorama Dashboard you have an immediate view about the status of all the firewall deployed.
One of the most valuable aspects for us is the fact that all of the policy management and configuration management is able to happen right from the centralized management. This makes everything much easier.
The initial setup is pretty simple.
The solution, especially the latest versions, is very stable.
The product can scale well.
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Suresh Ukkalkar
Manager - Projects & Programs at BhaktiVedanta Hospital
Security is the most valuable aspect of this solution. We find that the security level is very high.
The user interface is very good. it's easy to navigate and very user-friendly.
The installation process is very simple.
The product is scalable.
The stability has been good.
We have found the technical support to be very helpful.
View full review »It is great that the records go back to 30 days.
Palo Alto's user interface is much more user-friendly than other platforms.
View full review »The most valuable aspect of this solution is the ability to manage our devices centrally. Additionally, we can monitor the workforce connections, receive reports, and use the backup feature.
It has shared profiles for all gateways. If I do not have Panorama, I need to create a separate profile for each and every gateway by logging into that particular gateway, but with Panorama, I can create a shared profile and just push it down to each and every gateway connected to it.
View full review »The threat prevention and layer seven security features were the most used and important for us. All operations are quite good in this solution.
View full review »Panorama is very easy, easy to administrate, and easy to control.
View full review »The application ID or App-ID feature is a good feature for us. We are also using IPS and content inspection features. The firewall can inspect the packages that are passing through my network.
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Leo Tse
Security Manager at a transportation company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The underlying technology is very good, considering that we are moving to a work-from-home environment.
Panorama is a straightforward tool. Palo Alto is comparative to other firewalls. Some firewall tools are more user friendly, and, from a technical perspective, it is very user friendly as well. It's not like Check Point. We use a setup for offshore development centers. For all those ODCs, we usually use a Palo Alto device. We have few perimeter firewalls which are Palo Alto but for the perimeter predominantly we use Check Point.
You don't need an overly experienced workforce to handle Palo Alto. It's very easy to use.
The solution if extremely flexible and scalable.
View full review »The solution works on a single pane of glass, so we have a good overview of everything happening.
We can easily look at security alerts.
Our team has the option to make configuration changes at any given time.
There are excellent reporting capabilities within the product.
The setup is quite easy.
View full review »The most valuable features are the management features like the ACL (Access Control List) management. These give us the capacity to make effective use of the capabilities of the product.
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Sakher Najdawi
Head of IT Department at a logistics company with 11-50 employees
The most valuable feature is the ease of use that comes from the GUI. I have found that you can do almost everything from the GUI. You rarely have to log into the CLI, at perhaps once in six months or a year.
This solution offers a lot of advanced functionality that is easy to deploy and not available from other vendors. An example of this is credential theft. Credentials are sometimes collected through phishing emails or websites, and this solution helps to reduce that type of attack. Every five minutes, Palo Alto updates the list of phishing websites. You can set up a profile to ensure that if anybody tries to access such a website, whether it be Http or https, then the attempt will be blocked.
Palo Alto will automatically monitor the contents of POST messages and check to see if they contain credentials such as a username and password. If they do then it may indicate an attempt to steal credentials by an external site. The traffic will be blocked, the incident will be reported, and the admin will be notified.
This solution makes the lives of security admins very easy in cases, as an example, for configuring IPS. If you want to secure traffic between any two zones, we need to make sure that the applications are identified, the users are identified, and all of the security profiles are applied. These including antivirus, anti-spyware, and IPS. This solution makes the configuration very easy.
Each firewall is treated as a security sensor where the firewall talks to the cloud and a machine running artificial intelligence helps to detect malware or other threats. This is an important step in the protection that this solution offers.
View full review »The most valuable item is centralization and we can get all of the router bases in a single window.
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DenysLahutin
Sales engineer at MUK
It's user-friendly. Users can easily manage the configurations, the policies, and the objects inside Panorama, inside the Palo Alto Network devices.
It is really useful for big deployments. It's useful for users that have two devices.
We have the ability to install Panorama in a public cloud deployment, and of course, Palo Alto also has their own cloud in which you can store the logs of all of your devices and basically get the reporting and get management for these logs through Panorama. Palo Alto has cloud firewalls and they are also manageable through Panorama. This is like a cherry on the top of all of your network security from Palo Alto in your organization.
The setup is easy.
The most valuable features of Palo Alto Networks Panorama are centralized management. We can manage all our firewalls.
View full review »What's most valuable in Palo Alto Networks Panorama is that it allows us to see the status on the network side, particularly on the endpoint, because we also use it for the internal network.
View full review »What I find brilliant in Palo Alto Networks Panorama is that you can create variables. The template stack function of the system is also valuable. You can create one profile for several firewalls, and I find that really, really cool. If there's a file on the network that needs to have an address arrangement, you can just import it similar to how you do a CSV import. It's a solid product and it does what it's supposed to do.
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Rajiv Mukherjee
Lead Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
This solution is user-friendly. It is centrally managed and provides role optimization, without the need for additional tools. We also make use of URL filtering and App-IDs.
View full review »We are attracted to Palo Alto because it is stable. It is very simple to use.
When they bring anything to the market, it is really well done.
View full review »The telemetry visibility is really good as well as the automated workflows for creating policies. The overall solution is quite intuitive to use.
View full review »I like its flexibility.
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Darshil Sanghvi
Consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
One valuable feature is centralized management. We are able to manage it centrally for two to three remote offices, our head office and our data centers. So, it is very simple to manage.
The second valuable feature is that it stores a lot of the logs. When we require it, we can get the dump, and we can get the logs.
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Swapnil Talegaonkar
Technology consultant at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees
The most valuable features of this solution are that its look & feel is exactly same as normal firewall, easy to explorer all of its features, also it has the Log Collector mode. This mode allows us to store our logs for two years in the solution itself.
View full review »Centralized firewall management and update management are the most valuable features.
View full review »The ability to manage a large number of firewalls from a single point is most valuable.
View full review »The firewall rules and policies are the most valuable aspects of the solution.
The interface and dashboard are quite good.
We haven't had any issues with the management of the solution.
The product offers good technical support and documentation.
We haven't had issues with scalability or performance. It's been very stable over the years.
I don't recall the initial setup giving us any troubles.
View full review »Via the management display, you can actually manage multiple firewalls within it. We have multiple sites and are able to manage multiple firewalls very well.
The initial setup was straightforward.
The solution scales well.
The product has been quite stable so far.
Technical support is helpful and knowledgeable.
The user interface is pretty good.
The pricing of the product is fair. It's not too high.
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SathishKumar
Project Specialist at integra software
The reporting is great.
View full review »The most valuable feature in my opinion is the compliance capabilities that help us meet defined requirements. These features are very effective at identifying things that need to be properly hardened.
View full review »I think the centralized management is a valuable feature because you can set corporate wide policies and push it out to all the firewalls without touching each one.
View full review »The most valuable aspects of the solution are the backup to recovery, pushing out the patches, and scheduling.
It also has good reporting capabilities in it as well.
View full review »What I really like about this program, is the easy integration of the firewalls and the core management interface, which is almost exactly the same as the single firewall.
View full review »The interface is very easy to use. You can do most jobs from one single console.
View full review »The most valuable feature is WildFire.
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Mohamed Sharaf
Security Consultant
What I like most about this solution is that it allows me to push multiple policies on multiple followers at the same time. For instance, I can work on a policy and it gets submitted on more than one file. It is a good feature for me to have, because I have many branches, so it gives me the ability to implement more than one policy, or to implement one policy on multiple files. I like the ease of management for the policies in the all files.
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MohamedMansour
Security Unit Manager at Digital Hub Egypt
The dashboards are very good on Palo Alto. They offer a centralized dashboard for managers as well.
View full review »It's helpful that the solution allows us to control all the firewalls from one device. You can check and monitor all the devices also, from one website. It's also got easy troubleshooting capabilities.
The interface of Panorama is very user-friendly. It's easy to find and get information and create reports.
View full review »The management console: It provides a single pane of glass for all the firewalls to feed information into.
View full review »Its automatability: You need it to automate things. We have used it for URL blocking. For example, if there is a threat out there, and we needed to immediately block a new malicious URL across a global enterprise, this is pretty difficult. With Panorama, we can automate this easily with their API.
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Bruce Bennett
Sr. Systems Analyst at a manufacturing company with 5,001-10,000 employees
Panorama: Provides a central management capability for all of the firewalls. It has the ability to manage the devices in groups based on their use. We use the firewalls in two primary functions and the ability to provide management of the different groups of firewalls is very useful.
Firewalls: The application ID capabilities have been very useful for things like Active Directory, and not having to identify every port that Microsoft has decided to use.
View full review »It's a reliable solution.
View full review »When a customer has many locations and they would like to push policies to all of the firewalls from one central location, Panorama is the product that enables customers to do this. They can configure templates and push them out to all locations. This makes it easy to manage.
All of the reports and events from different locations can be managed centrally.
View full review »Panorama provides management functionalities.
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Palo Alto Networks Panorama
June 2025

Learn what your peers think about Palo Alto Networks Panorama. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: June 2025.
860,711 professionals have used our research since 2012.