We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Nagios XI based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The stability is very reliable. It offers very good performance."
"I like FortiSIEM because it integrates natively with our other Fortinet solutions and the Fortinet Fabric, but it also integrates with Cisco, Palo Alto and other security fabrics."
"Some of our customers who use this solution have seen improvement in their connection with load balancing on both connections."
"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."
"Both the collecting logs and duo correlation are valuable features for us."
"It's a very nice solution to work with."
"The Threat Hunting feature provides complete traffic analysis."
"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."
"I can monitor a software made in-house to software of bigger companies."
"An excellent solution that is easy and intuitive to implement."
"Nagios allows us to configure any device so that we can send pager alerts when people don't have access to emails. It also allows us to schedule downtime and maintenance."
"The ability to set up templates and groups of checks, as well as customize the checks themselves."
"The most useful aspect of this solution is the ability to customize it for the client agent."
"Nagios XI is a simple monitoring tool with performance management."
"The installation is no problem. I've installed Nagios several times."
"The solution is pretty stable."
"The only drawback is the licensing model. It can get expensive if you want to integrate more solutions."
"It lacks a "wizard" that shows a particular user's activity or particular circumstance. I think the interface is intimidating because there's so much information there."
"FortiSIEM is not a market leader in the SIEM space."
"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."
"If there is a configuration on the wrong side of the network or there are changes that result in harm to our IT infrastructure, the solution should immediately fix it."
"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."
"Our team tried configuring MS SQL database logs with Fortinet FortiSIEM, but it did not work for some time."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"There's room for improvement in the visibility, and in the ability to extract information. Stuff like this should be more simple."
"The scalability of Nagios XI is scalable. However, it is not easy to do."
"The installation and monitoring need improvement."
"They need more documentation for the plugins."
"Open-source software is usually not user-friendly."
"It is really difficult to integrate Nagios XI with another system to generate logs and alert our management of failures in security infrastructure."
"The technical support is variable - sometimes I get answers, but most of my tickets go unanswered."
"I would like to see support for notification via SMS."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while Nagios XI is ranked 9th in IT Infrastructure Monitoring with 54 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Nagios XI is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Nagios XI writes "Great for monitoring IT services infrastructure with nice tools and helpful notifications". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Nagios XI is most compared with Nagios Core, Zabbix, PRTG Network Monitor, Wireshark and Icinga. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Nagios XI report.
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