We performed a comparison between Datadog and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Datadog users like its customizable displays, error tracking, and advanced AI/ML capabilities. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Datadog could enhance its usability and reduce its learning curve. Users said integration was another pain point. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: While many users spoke highly of Datadog’s support team, others reported slow support, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Datadog’s setup is considered straightforward, and users often receive help from a partner or vendor. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Opinions about Datadog's price are divided. Some users found it costly, but others thought it was acceptable. Some said the pricing model could be clearer and better explained. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Users said Datadog saved them time and improved visibility into security blind spots. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"The most valuable features have been: Sharable dashboards, TimeBoards, dogstatsd API, Slack Integration, Event logging API. CloudTrail Events, Tags, alerts, and anomaly detection. EBS Volume Snapshot Age, which they added upon request."
"We can handle debugging and find out why things are breaking in our applications."
"The many dozens of integrations that the solution brings out of the box are excellent."
"With Datadog I can look at the health of the technology stack and services."
"The ease with which we can filter, use metrics, and give accounts to customers, then let the customer filter, set up metrics, and alerts. This has been a big win for us."
"Straightforward to integrate and automate."
"It is easy to implement and scale applications with standardized visibility, monitoring and alerting"
"The dashboards and the performance of the software have been great."
"The IBS (Intent Based Segmentation) and application web filtering are the most valuable aspects of the solution."
"From my perspective, we need to see the traffic in a good way so we can know what has happened in our network. The analyzing tools and the monitoring tools and the logs are the important part in the network."
"Separating sections or conditions on Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is quite clear."
"It is a simple and solution."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"The most valuable features of the solution are the reports and the playbooks."
"Many of my clients are financial institutions that transmit files from around the country across a VPN. In a setup like this, it's helpful to have a centralized dashboard to manage firewalls and other security solutions across a distributed environment. You can do all sorts of analysis and configure it to trigger alarms."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"I think better access to their engineers when we have a problem could be better."
"Datadog is expensive."
"Datadog needs more local Asia-Pacific support, and if they don't have a SaaS solution in Asia-Pacific, they should offer an on-prem version. I'm told that's not possible."
"Datadog is so feature-rich that it is often hard to onboard new folks and tough to decide where to invest time."
"Datadog could be improved if it could detect other software in a container or server."
"Datadog could always lower the price!"
"The on-premise version is very difficult to upgrade."
"While I like the ease of use, when compared with Tenable Nessus they could still improve their usability."
"FortiAnalyzer's price could be lower."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not good at managing multi-version environments. If all your FortiGate are at different versions in the field, that's difficult. The one thing we didn't like is the fact you have to have 100% of your environment at the same release, which is not pleasant, to have it fully functional. You can have a different release, but to have it fully functional 100% of your environment has to be the same release."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"One of the main disadvantages is not having a direct link to the security policy when you see something in the log."
"From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities."
"The reports are good, but they are over-summarized."
"The cloud version can be expensive. If the customers could get the resources to store the logs on-premises, it would be much better."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could improve by having better integration with other vendors."
Datadog is ranked 3rd in Log Management with 137 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 87 reviews. Datadog is rated 8.6, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Datadog writes "Very good RUM, synthetics, and infrastructure host maps". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Datadog is most compared with Dynatrace, Azure Monitor, New Relic, AWS X-Ray and AppDynamics, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Datadog vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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