We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."The firmware version upgrades are the most valuable feature."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"It's very easy to install, and it's easy to discover and communicate with your device."
"The features are good."
"There is something called zero-touch provisioning, where you can add a new device without any configuration. You just add it to FortiManager and then forget about it."
"It has multiple features in one box, which helps to avoid needing a lot of equipment. This is something that makes them unique."
"FortiManager offers a full zero-touch provisioning feature that allows us to create a template of our devices and onboard them remotely without visiting the site."
"It's a scalable product."
"Templates are good. We download them from the official Zabbix site or the community. If the information we need isn't available, we create custom templates based on client requirements."
"It not only provides the preconfigured item monitoring feature, but it is also easy to configure custom items."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"The most valuable feature is the monitoring of virtual machines."
"Zabbix is quite stable once it is set up. We haven't had any post-setup issues."
"The most valuable features are the monitoring and the ease with which we can set it up at customer sites with our custom Zabbix proxy and tools."
"Health and communication links availability."
"The documentation could be better."
"Areas for improvement in Fortinet FortiManager are scalability and stability."
"Its licensing model should be improved."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"It would be better if it were easier to run a routing protocol. In the next release, I would like them to enhance some features in the GUI rather than CLI or OSP. For example, whenever a customer generates an ISP directly on the firewall, it's complicated to configure the routing protocol."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"The interface could be improved. It is split up into different areas, which makes it more difficult to navigate and get the right section of the correct file. The solution is quite expensive, so it would not be suitable for small to medium sized organizations."
"The response times from technical support need to be a bit quicker."
"I want Zabbix to improve the UX/UI. Zabbix doesn't use a JavaScript chart for images, and I want them to improve this."
"The documentation gets a bit messy between versions and is not too detailed, which is a bit painful for first-timers, especially when they run into issues."
"The solution needs to add remote features."
"Outside of the normal standard monitoring, I would like to extend patching, importing patching, and supporting patching for Windows Servers."
"The user interface could be better."
"The dashboard and the graph section could be a little bit more professional."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM.
We monitor all Network Management Applications reviews to prevent fraudulent reviews and keep review quality high. We do not post reviews by company employees or direct competitors. We validate each review for authenticity via cross-reference with LinkedIn, and personal follow-up with the reviewer when necessary.