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 SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."
"The integration is quite good."
"The product is a combination of management and monitoring from the same interface."
"The solution brings device management into one single pane of glass and is a pretty good product."
"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"The solution is very stable."
"It is easy to deploy to licenses."
"The initial setup was straightforward."
"Every new asset placed in the environment can be automatically detected, predicting human failures."
"We like the user-interface for this solution, which makes it an easy to use tool."
"We detect problems before the customer does and before it actually happens using the predictive functions in Zabbix."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"There is a problems page that shows us every warning or problem that occurs on our VMs globally. The map screen is also really useful because this is something that was missing. I don't know every other tool in the market. So, I don't know if this is a good point of only Zabbix, or other tools are also doing it, but from my point of view, this is the most useful page that I use, along with the problems page that efficiently lists the problem, recovery time, ending hours, starting hours, and so on."
"The solution is stable."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"The solution's design has recently changed and it is visually pleasing with more color, for example, there is blue, black, and white."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"Issues arise when customers experience unstable electricity or poor grounding conditions."
"Fortinet FortiManager could improve them by adding more portfolio components."
"The areas that need improvement are implemenation and support. In terms of implementation, it mainly needs clear documentation."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"The price always has room for improvement."
"The fabric for integrations or connections could be improved."
"The GUI could be more intuitive. Also, we'd like streaming telemetry. Zabbix might have this feature, but I haven't seen it yet. It took us a long time to get started because the documentation isn't very descriptive. We had to go through various sources like YouTube and forums to get this solution working."
"I would like to better be able to monitor Oracle processes."
"It should be easy to modify the front end."
"If Zabbix had a better dashboard then it would be nice."
"The reports are not great and should be improved."
"The product could be more secure and more stable."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"There's a small module of APM, however, it is not an enhanced version. People usually ask for a full-fledged APM solution."
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.
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