We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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."The event handling solution in the platform is very good and useful."
"It gives us reporting features, which are helpful in the case of troubleshooting and audit purposes."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"The features that our customers have found most valuable are their different type of reports including the drill down report, as well as the flexibility to connect to any number of appliances which can be connected to it centrally."
"The solution is quite easy to deploy."
"It is easy to integrate Fortinet FortiAnalyzer with other products. You have a better overview of what's going on."
"The product can scale."
"One of the greatest advantages of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its ability to integrate with a variety of software and solutions, providing comprehensive visibility into the network. The solution's strength lies in its capability to work with Fortinet's own products, such as the FortiAP access point, which allows for deep monitoring, automation, correlation, and incident management. However, this functionality is not present when utilizing other products, such as those from Cisco, limiting the visibility and benefits that can be gained."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"It's easy to use."
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"It should have customized reports as well. While it currently has them, you need to write a script which is not straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer can improve by introducing integration with other Fortinet solutions with automation with one interface would be helpful."
"The deployment is complex and has room for improvement."
"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."
"It will be better if behavior or indicators of compromise were on the same licensing schema. Currently, it is an advanced feature that you have to purchase as an add-on. This is the reason we're trying to do the ELK so that we can integrate them and create those rules by using open-source software. It will also be better if it has some more integration with IT service management tools so that we can do endpoint protection and response based on those indicators of compromise or those behavior analysis rules that create events that can automatically flow. We can inject that data into a service incident ticket on our IT service management tool, and that way we can assign the ticket to the proper teams and respond right away. Currently, we only have integration with ServiceNow."
"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
"It would be good if the product could provide data about the websites users visit."
"The pricing could be better. They could work to make it more competitive on the market."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 25th in Log Management with 10 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. 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 Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and Datadog, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Amazon CloudWatch. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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