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 solution is compatible with the cloud-native environment and they can adapt to it faster."
"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."
"The solution is quite stable. The performance has been good."
"Elastic Security is very customizable, and the dashboards are very easy to build."
"I like the indexing of the logs."
"Elastic is straightforward, easy to integrate, and highly customizable."
"One of the most valuable features of this solution is that it is more flexible than AlienVault."
"The most valuable features of Elastic Security are it is open-source and provides a high level of security."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"The solution allows for a lot of customization."
"The traffic log information we receive from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is valuable."
"What I like the most is the monitoring system."
"The most valuable features are customizing reports, and the ability to drill down to display critical information in real-time."
"The product works well with other products."
"The log events are quite useful for us."
"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."
"If the documentation were improved and made more clear for beginners, or even professionals, then we would be more attracted to this solution."
"The process of designing dashboards is a little cumbersome in Kibana. Unless you are an expert, you will not be able to use it. The process should be pretty straightforward. The authentication feature is what we are looking for. We would love to have a central authentication system in the open-source edition without the need for a license or an enterprise license. If they can give at least a simple authentication system within a company. In a large organization, authentication is very essential for security because logs can contain a lot of confidential data. Therefore, an authentication feature for who accesses it should be there."
"Authentication is not a default in Kibana. We need to have another tool to have authentication and authorization. These two should be part of Kibana."
"If you compare this with CrowdStrike or Carbon Black, they can improve."
"An area for improvement in Elastic Security is the pricing. It could be better. Right now, when you increase the volume of logs to be collected, the price also increases a lot."
"We are paying dearly for the guy who is working on the ELK Stack. That knowledge is quite rare and hard to come by. For difficulty and availability of resources, I would rate it a five out of 10."
"The training that is offered for Elastic is in need of improvement because there is no depth to it."
"With Elastic, you have to build the use cases for the specific requirement. Other products have a simple integration and more use cases to integrate out-of-the-box solutions for SIEM."
"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."
"When it comes to pushing logs to a SIEM, most of the time we have some issues when it comes to filtering."
"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."
"The pricing could be better. They could work to make it more competitive on the market."
"The traffic monitoring could be better, and stability could be improved."
"I would like to see an improvement in the technical support. Stronger authentication will also be a plus."
"The cost of FortiAnalyzer could be cheaper, especially when you are installing to a VM. For 90 percent of customers, the VM solution is enough."
"The only issue that I can see is with the cost. For example, if you buy support for one year, you are messed up next year. It's better to buy another gateway."
Elastic Security is ranked 5th in Log Management with 59 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 87 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 Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and syslog-ng. See our Elastic Security vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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