We performed a comparison between Elastic Security 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: Elastic Security is commended for its adaptability, extensive customization options, and seamless integration with the ELK Stack. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. Elastic Security could improve by reducing resource usage, automating threat response, and simplifying the user experience. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Some Elastic Security users found their support helpful, while others experienced difficulties and delays. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Elastic Security generally has a straightforward setup but may require trained specialists. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Elastic Security is considered affordable and cost-effective, with pricing based on the size of the monitored environment. 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: Elastic Security has shown mixed results in terms of ROI, with some users expressing concerns about the quality of their premium support. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"The feature that we have found the most valuable is scalability."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the prevention methods and the incident alerts."
"It can handle millions of loads at a time, and you can always use the filters to find exactly what you are looking for and detect errors in every log message you are searching for, basically."
"It's very customizable, which is quite helpful."
"I use the stack every morning to check the errors and it's just so clear. I don't see any disadvantage to using Logstash."
"We chose the product based on the ability to scan for malware using a malware behavioral model as opposed to just a traditional hash-based antivirus. Therefore, it's not as intensive."
"The most valuable feature is the scalability. We are in Indonesia, more engineers understand Elastic Security here. So it is easier to scale and also develop. In features, the discovery to query all the logs is very important to us. It is very easy, especially with the query function and the feature to generate alerts and create tools. Sometimes we use the alert security dashboard to monitor our clients."
"The most valuable feature is the speed, as it responds in a very short time."
"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."
"The analyzer is the most valuable feature."
"FortiAnalyzer helps us discover what's happening on the network."
"Log View is the most valuable part for us, as we can view logs from different Fortigates on a single GUI."
"The program is stable and it gives me great visibility."
"It is very stable and reliable."
"The event handling solution in the platform is very good and useful."
"The solution is quite easy to deploy."
"This solution is very hard to implement."
"The solution does not have a UI and this is one of the reasons we are looking for another solution."
"The tool needs to integrate with legacy servers. Big companies can have legacy servers that may not always be updated."
"There is room for improvement in the Kibana dashboard and in the asset management for the program."
"I would like more ways to manage permissions and restrict access to certain users."
"Upgrades currently released as stacks when it should be a plugin or an extension to save removal and reinstallation."
"I would like the process of retrieving archived data and viewing it in Kibana to be simplified."
"Email notification should be done the same way as Logentries does it."
"It doesn't easily integrate with other solutions."
"The solution should be more price competitive."
"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."
"They could always improve the interface and the user experience."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not good at managing multi-version environments. If all your FortiGate are at different versions in the field, that's difficult. The one thing we didn't like is the fact you have to have 100% of your environment at the same release, which is not pleasant, to have it fully functional. You can have a different release, but to have it fully functional 100% of your environment has to be the same release."
"I believe that its technical support is the only aspect that requires significant improvement."
"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."
"The solution should include the ability to customize reports so that customers receive greater value and high level reporting."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 85 reviews. Elastic Security is rated 7.6, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Elastic Security writes "A stable and scalable tool that provides visibility along with the consolidation of logs to its users". 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". Elastic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM Security QRadar and ArcSight Logger, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and syslog-ng. See our Elastic Security vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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