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."We like the fact that we can run minute-by-minute reporting form this solution."
"Log View is the most valuable part for us, as we can view logs from different Fortigates on a single GUI."
"The log events are quite useful for us."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a complete package for managing our equipment."
"Initial setup is ok."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to create a customized dashboard."
"The most valuable is its robust and comprehensive reporting functionality, providing a thorough overview of various metrics."
"It's easy to use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"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."
"Provides visibility into the performance uptime."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
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"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."
"The solution costs too much."
"The user interface could be a bit more user-friendly."
"FortiAnalyzer only integrates with Fortinet solutions. That is a limitation because many organizations use multiple vendors. It's often a mixture of Cisco network hardware and equipment from other vendors, such as switches, access points, etc."
"The cloud version can be expensive. If the customers could get the resources to store the logs on-premises, it would be much better."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not scalable."
"Pricing-wise, it not affordable for the normal customer. Most of the people want to see different types of reporting, but FortiAnalyzer's fee is a little bit difficult."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to have more out-of-the-box connectors for integration with other solutions."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"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."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"It could be even more automated."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be more stable."
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 9 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 7.8. 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, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and Grafana. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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