We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and VMware Aria Operations for Logs 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."The product can scale."
"It gives us reporting features, which are helpful in the case of troubleshooting and audit purposes."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"FortiAnalyzer has a robust ability to find a compromised host on your network, and when you identify a compromised host, you can address it."
"I would say that Fortinet's tech support is really good."
"Our use case for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is analyzing traffic. We use it to investigate complaints about account access, check if something is blocked or working, and understand what's happening inside them."
"There are a lot of monitoring features available."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"It is a highly stable solution...It is a highly scalable solution."
"What I like is that you can have different storage locations for different applications."
"The tool helps my company deal with security and log analysis, which are very important areas for us...It is a scalable solution."
"The system's management and its alerts are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"vRealize Log Insight has been running without any issues."
"The setup and installation are very easy."
"I like the interface."
"The virtualization solution supports data center virtualization, network and security."
"We would like to see some improvement on the upgrade process around this solution. There are sometimes communication issues when a new version of the firewall is implemented, and it fails to report back to this product."
"The solution can improve the incident response function to provide more detailed information on where the incident is originating."
"I think some improvement is required in real-time log monitoring, as sometimes it gets stuck or displays results after a delay."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to have more out-of-the-box connectors for integration with other solutions."
"Their in-house technical support is extremely slow to respond. We have our own in-house team to manage issues so clients don't have to wait over two weeks for a response to issues."
"The pricing could be better."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is not in the cloud environment like some of the other products. There could be a possibility of extending its functionality to the cloud environment. If possible, they could have a deal with or integrate with other firewall manufacturers, like Palo Alto and Cisco, and mix the information. It is a difficult functionality. I don't know if any product in the market provides such functionality."
"Paid or free does not matter, but it is complex to find good training material for vRealize Log Insight."
"Log Insight should be better at dealing with audits and security logs. We use another product called QRadar for that."
"The product's price falls on the higher end of the spectrum, making it an area of concern."
"It needs better integration with third-party analytics tools."
"Documentation is lacking, including some guide as to how to use the expressions. It is not clear how to look for a log, for example. Some examples in the documentation might be helpful. I think that VMware had good documentation, but it's no longer hosted. The documentation is not as easy to understand as it was before."
"In the VMware environment, one area for improvement is the handling of VM failovers due to host failures, such as unexpected shutdowns from hardware issues. Currently, High Availability (HA) doesn't seem to recognize whether the VMs are online during failover, treating them as offline or unavailable."
"The tool is expensive."
"Technical support should be improved."
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 84 reviews while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is ranked 10th in Log Management with 24 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while VMware Aria Operations for Logs is rated 8.2. 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 VMware Aria Operations for Logs writes "Gives a clear forecast about existing machines, and has an automation feature that helps in reducing a lot of ambiguities and managing operational efficiencies". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and ManageEngine Log360, whereas VMware Aria Operations for Logs is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Elastic Security, LogRhythm SIEM, Graylog and IBM Security QRadar. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. VMware Aria Operations for Logs report.
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