We compared Amazon CloudWatch and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization through. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing, without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. 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: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"Scheduling is a valuable feature."
"What my company likes best about Amazon CloudWatch is that it's on AWS. My team also likes it for its log feature. As the solution is on AWS, it also has good pricing and resource availability, plus it's what clients choose. My company also chose AWS for Forge ECS, and at the time, there was a need for the log features provided by Amazon CloudWatch, so it's the solution my team went with."
"You can enable alarms and metrics, and it has robust integration with AWS services. You can also trigger events. For example, if the CPU utilization is above 80%, it can launch a new instance for you."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is the monitoring and UI."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is collecting the logs from Lambda."
"We can create events and alerts. We use the information to dive down into the infrastructure performance."
"The alarms are one thing I love about AWS CloudWatch. It has alerts that notify us when resource use is approaching the limit."
"CloudWatch immediately hooks up and connects to the KPIs and all the metrics."
"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."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"I would say that Fortinet's tech support is really good."
"It has a simplified and user-friendly interface."
"The most important feature is to be able to get reports or information about the state of all firewalls."
"The user interface is good and it is quite easy to use."
"The scalability is good. It is also good in the cluster nodes. You can make multiple FortiAnalyzer clusters groups, and you can distribute the logs between these FortiAnalyzer nodes. In other words, you can expand the scale."
"Technical reports clearly identify system checks, locations and areas, how many times things escape, which firewall is affected, and source IDs."
"CloudWatch's scalability could be improved."
"The technical support must be improved."
"There could be further enhancements through CloudWatch's partnerships."
"The product’s documentation must be improved."
"The solution should provide human-readable metrics."
"CloudWatch doesn’t monitor disk throughput by default."
"This product lacks some features: real-time data stream monitoring, application performance monitoring, mobile app monitoring, and live dashboards. Its workflows also need improvement."
"I would like to monitor inbound and outbound transfer. I would also like to control the traffic for load balancing."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"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."
"The solution could embed monitoring."
"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 solution can improve the incident response function to provide more detailed information on where the incident is originating."
"The technical support is not very reliable."
"The solution should be more price competitive."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". 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". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and Datadog. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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