We compared Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Wazuh seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that because Fortinet FortiAnalyzer’s integration capabilities are limited, its price is expensive, and there is a question about how effective its technical support is, Wazuh is a better investment.
"The most valuable features are customizing reports, and the ability to drill down to display critical information in real-time."
"The log analysis and reporting are both quite good."
"It's a very stable product."
"Support is helpful."
"I would say that Fortinet's tech support is really good."
"I have found incident management and also identifying new threats, analyzing the network traffic, and finding out the issues with the network traffic such as any security issues to be valuable. I also like the compliance reports."
"It gives us reporting features, which are helpful in the case of troubleshooting and audit purposes."
"The most important feature is to be able to get reports or information about the state of all firewalls."
"Wazuh automatically scans the host for CIS benchmarks for the latest updates and vulnerabilities and gives a host score. It provides a percentage of perceived risk due to of non patches or any missing patches on that work."
"Wazuh offers an enhanced HDR version that outperforms its competitors."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"Wazuh's most beneficial features for our security needs are flexibility, built-in rules, integration capabilities, and documentation."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"The product’s interface is intuitive."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"The log monitoring and analysis tools are great in addition to SIEM file activity monitoring."
"Feature-wise, it is working very well for us. We don't need any additional features. However, its pricing can be improved. For small business customers, price is an important factor."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by having better integration with other vendors."
"It is very important that FAZ can support FortiController as the architecture designed for the network. FortiController should be registered in FAZ at least for event logs."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve the user interface, and the experience of users receiving the reports and tracking could be better."
"It would be good if the product could provide data about the websites users visit."
"If Fortinet could introduce some firewalling or maybe FortiAnalyzer on the cloud, that would be interesting because I've never seen it on a cloud."
"The solution costs too much."
"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"The tool doesn't detect anomalies or new environments."
"Wazuh needs more security and features, particularly visualization features and a health monitor."
"It would be great if there could be customization for the decoder portion."
"Scalability is a challenge because it is distributed architecture and it uses Elastic DB. Their Elastic DB doesn't allow open source waste application."
"The only challenge we faced with Wazuh was the lack of direct support."
"Adding the flexibility to integrate various plug-ins or modules into its core system would enhance functionality."
"Log data analysis could be improved. My IT team has been looking for an alternative because they want better log data for malware detection. We are also doing more container implementation also, so we need better container security, log data analysis, auditing and compliance, malware detection, etc."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki, LogRhythm SIEM and Datadog, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, Splunk Enterprise Security, AlienVault OSSIM and CrowdStrike Falcon. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Wazuh report.
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