We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Security Onion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."It is a simple and solution."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the GUI and there is automation that can be done with playbooks and mini-books."
"Based on the logs of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer you can have it trigger actions. For example, if the log has a word or a sentence you specified it can send an alert or Syslog to an email address."
"Initial setup is ok."
"I like its simplicity. It is straightforward. We get reports and emails about the logs, and that's it."
"The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use."
"We use this functionality every day, and obtain reports on things like how many people are using the VPN, which websites are being accessed, and whether hackers are trying to penetrate into our network."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"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."
"The solution costs too much."
"The solution should be more price competitive."
"FortiAnalyzer's price could be lower."
"Feature-wise, it is working very well for us. We don't need any additional features. However, its pricing can be improved. For small business customers, price is an important factor."
"The technical support is not very good."
"I'm looking for something more efficient to analyze different foreign things. That's why FortiSIEM could compete with FortiAnalyzer."
"It is very important that FAZ can support FortiController as the architecture designed for the network. FortiController should be registered in FAZ at least for event logs."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
"The product is not easy to learn."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 30th in Log Management with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and Datadog, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Nagios Log Server. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Security Onion report.
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