We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Security Onion 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."Report generation is very easy"
"The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use."
"The solution is quite easy to deploy."
"FortiAnalyzer's best feature is centralized log analysis. It's based on SQL database, so I can fully customize my report, chart-wise and log-wise, and can create as many reports as I want without any limit."
"Overall we are satisfied with all the features the solution provides."
"It gives you live logs, which can be really helpful during troubleshooting."
"Logging is the best feature."
"I would say that Fortinet's tech support is really good."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"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 somebody is new to the system they find it difficult to perform certain operations, like backups, and to see where the reports are."
"The technical support is not very reliable."
"There are a lot of solutions on the market and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is limited. It cannot be used across multiple vendors. They can improve by advancing their technology."
"The UI could use some improvement. It can be tough for a beginner to navigate because you don't know what to do even if you read the guide. I've talked to some users who said that they couldn't figure out what to do even after looking at the documentation."
"Our organization wants the solution to be able to provide us access to a centralized dashboard that displays a log view for all firewalls under Fortinet FortiAnalyzer."
"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."
"Their pricing model is not the best and needs work."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 85 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 33rd in Log Management with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. 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 Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Nagios Log Server. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Security Onion report.
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