We compared Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Wazuh seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that because Fortinet FortiAnalyzer’s integration capabilities are limited, its price is expensive, and there is a question about how effective its technical support is, Wazuh is a better investment.
"Technical reports clearly identify system checks, locations and areas, how many times things escape, which firewall is affected, and source IDs."
"There are a lot of monitoring features available."
"The report templates are valuable. It works very well, and integrations also work well."
"There are customizable workflows that you can work with. You can automate certain tasks in FortiAnaylzer in the incidents and events sections."
"The interface is simple and easy to navigate."
"The IBS (Intent Based Segmentation) and application web filtering are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"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."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to analyze data in real-time using AR features to pull data from the industrial DB. You can know what is going on and see in milliseconds where the network is underperforming."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"Wazuh offers an enhanced HDR version that outperforms its competitors."
"It is excellent in terms of visualization and indexing services, making it a powerful tool for malware detection."
"The configuration assessment and Pile integrity monitoring features are decent."
"It is a stable solution."
"It's stable."
"Wazuh offers numerous features, such as the ability to define custom rules for detecting malicious activities and remembering behaviors."
"The interface or GUI does not work properly on Microsoft Edge. The behavior or the view is different on Microsoft Edge versus on Chrome or Firefox. When some buttons do not work, I am forced to switch to Firefox."
"They could always improve the interface and the user experience."
"The solution lacks business intelligence features. It's much too basic."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is not in the cloud environment like some of the other products. There could be a possibility of extending its functionality to the cloud environment. If possible, they could have a deal with or integrate with other firewall manufacturers, like Palo Alto and Cisco, and mix the information. It is a difficult functionality. I don't know if any product in the market provides such functionality."
"The integration between specific tenants and FortiAnalyzer can be simplified when utilizing a multi-tenant EMS for our FortiClient."
"One of the main disadvantages is not having a direct link to the security policy when you see something in the log."
"The traffic monitoring could be better, and stability could be improved."
"The support could be better for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer here in Mexico."
"Log data analysis could be improved. My IT team has been looking for an alternative because they want better log data for malware detection. We are also doing more container implementation also, so we need better container security, log data analysis, auditing and compliance, malware detection, etc."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"Some features, like alerting, are complex with Wazuh."
"Its user interface for sure can be improved. It is not so comfortable to use if you're looking for specific logs."
"Wazuh needs more security and features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
"It would be great if there could be customization for the decoder portion."
"The biggest part that's missing is threat intelligence. It isn't inbuilt, and if a sudden incident occurs, we don't get that feedback inside the SIEM tool. That's a big gap, I see. It would be better if we could get the threat intelligence feeds integrated with the SIEM tools. That would help us push value solutions to the clients in a big way."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog, Datadog and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Wazuh report.
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