We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) 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."Special notifications about compromised phones are valuable because we have some guest networks, and sometimes, people are connecting phones that are connected to compromised websites. We want to be informed about it. We sometimes have some cases where we want to analyze the connection from inside to outside ports. So, it helps with a lot of things. It depends on our needs."
"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 reporting features, which offer customization, real-time insights, and compliance support, are particularly noteworthy aspects."
"Initial setup is ok."
"The ability to gather all gateway information and logs in a single location is the most valuable feature."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"The initial setup is easy, and the deployment is fast."
"Separating sections or conditions on Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is quite clear."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"Google's technical support is very good."
"The features that I have found most valuable are its graphs - if I need any statistics, in Kubernetes or Kong level or VPN level, I can quickly get the reports."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
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"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 integration with other vendors for log collection could be enhanced."
"In terms of what could be improved, sometimes it's lagging and it also has some graphical issues with the GUI."
"I think some improvement is required in real-time log monitoring, as sometimes it gets stuck or displays results after a delay."
"We would like to do the reporting, logging, and administration of all the public devices and all the IoT devices. We wish to add the switches, and routers from different vendors, so it's not a vendor-specific diagnostic solution."
"It should have customized reports as well. While it currently has them, you need to write a script which is not straightforward."
"The cloud version can be expensive. If the customers could get the resources to store the logs on-premises, it would be much better."
"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 product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"The logging functionality could be better."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
"It could be even more automated."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"The process of logging analytics can be improved"
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 26th in Log Management with 10 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. 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 Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and Datadog, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, Amazon CloudWatch and New Relic. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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