We performed a comparison between Datadog and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"The tools are powerful and intuitive to set up."
"The tool's deployment is easy."
"Datadog has clear dashboards and good documentation."
"The application performance monitoring is pretty good."
"It has saved us a lot of trouble in implementation."
"Datadog has given us near-live visibility across our entire cloud platform."
"The infrastructure monitoring capabilities are really valuable. You can just log on and see everything that is happening within an IT environment."
"Their interface is probably one of the easiest things to use because it lets non-developers and non-engineers quickly get access to metrics and pull business value out of them. We could put together dashboards and give it to people who are non-technical, then they can see the state of the world."
"FortiAnalyzer has a robust ability to find a compromised host on your network, and when you identify a compromised host, you can address it."
"What I like the most is the monitoring system."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to create a customized dashboard."
"There are a lot of monitoring features available."
"We use the solution for enterprise firewalls, URL filtering, and SD-WAN."
"The traffic log information we receive from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is valuable."
"Technical reports clearly identify system checks, locations and areas, how many times things escape, which firewall is affected, and source IDs."
"We have recently had a number of issues with stability and delays on logging, monitoring, metric evaluation, and alerts."
"The way data is represented can be limiting. When I first tried it out a long time ago, you could graph a metric and another metric, and they'd overlay, but you couldn't take the ratio between the two."
"It lacks consistency in the APIs."
"Could be a little more user friendly."
"Lacks some flexibility in the customization."
"I found the solution to be stable, I did not experience any bugs or glitches. However, some of the managing team did."
"We need more advanced querying against logs."
"Additional metrics should be included."
"The user interface could be a bit more user-friendly."
"They can include integration with devices, such as firewalls, endpoints, from other vendors. They can include graphic monitoring of everything in the network, not just Fortinet products. It would also be good to include customizable reports and customizable views of the reports."
"When it comes to pushing logs to a SIEM, most of the time we have some issues when it comes to filtering."
"If Fortinet could introduce some firewalling or maybe FortiAnalyzer on the cloud, that would be interesting because I've never seen it on a cloud."
"The solution could embed monitoring."
"The reports are good, but they are over-summarized."
"The solution is expensive."
"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and Elastic Observability, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer. See our Datadog vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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