We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, Broadcom and others in Network Management Applications."For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"I appreciate the ability to connect via SSH through Fortinet FortiManager to the FortiGates I manage. This feature allows me to gather information about the interfaces without having to physically connect to the device. This is a convenient aspect that I find valuable."
"FortiManager offers a full zero-touch provisioning feature that allows us to create a template of our devices and onboard them remotely without visiting the site."
"The most valuable features are the centralized management of the firewalls."
"The main benefit of Fortinet FortiManager is the ability to control all the devices from a central location, view their statuses, and manage their configurations and updates from a single management console."
"The user interface is very easy to navigate."
"This solution enables you to centralize the rules and the configuration of all the equipment."
"Setup, setting policies, and reporting were all very easy. We had no issues whatsoever getting the solution up and running."
"The most valuable feature is service assurance."
"The most valuable feature is the protocol to manage anything."
"The most valuable features of Zabbix are flexibility and a single interface for different types of monitoring."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The most valuable features in Zabbix are those that help us overcome bottlenecks in CPU usage, as well as reduce memory delay. I know that we have only reached the tip of the iceberg of what Zabbix's features can do for us, and we have not used all of them yet."
"Zabbix is scalable."
"It has improved our server performance monitoring overall. We know right away when there are problems. It has built-in statistics, so we can go back and see if there's spiking. We can check what's happening every day around the same time and check the configuration to see if there's something that's running and needs to be fixed."
"For the IPSEC tunnels, Fortimanager doesn't have all of the features that are available on Fortigate."
"In the next release, FortiManager should include more protection features."
"Can be difficult to configure."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"This solution needs more experienced technical support staff. There's nothing special about it compared to other vendors."
"The price is a bit too high."
"There are a lot of bugs that need to be fixed, for example, the ZTP."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"For us, the initial setup was complex"
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"I think the reporting part of Zabbix can be improved in terms of more user-friendly graphics to display the collected data. Many simple users who don't know how to use Zabbix properly might get confused by the reporting, although at the same time it is very versatile for my company."
"The user web interface is a little bit too basic, we need to link Zabbix to Grafana to have more options, such as graphs and charts. The interface needs to be improved. Additionally, there could be better integration with Grafana API."
"Correlation of events would be a wonderful addition."
"An area for improvement would be the ease of doing aggregation from the value or different devices."
"Zabbix isn't a great tool for cloud-specific monitoring - its connection to public clouds needs to be improved. Other areas for improvement would be the lack of dashboards and integrations."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 100 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI.
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