We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Sumo Logic Security 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."The most valuable features are customizing reports, and the ability to drill down to display critical information in real-time."
"The reporting features, which offer customization, real-time insights, and compliance support, are particularly noteworthy aspects."
"The most valuable is its robust and comprehensive reporting functionality, providing a thorough overview of various metrics."
"Logging is the best feature."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"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."
"It supports SQL for logging and reporting. Log data is inserted into the SQL database for log view and report generation."
"The analyzer is the most valuable feature."
"The features I found valuable with the Sumo Logic Security solution are the search option and the ability to customize the search for the information in the logs."
"The most valuable features of Sumo Logic Security are the rules, use cases, and ease of use. Additionally, the integration is straightforward and good GUI."
"We use it to ingest Windows domain controller logs. We use this to monitor if anyone is placed in particular administration groups that potentially shouldn't be. It helps us keep track of people."
"Sumo Logic Security is a good solution for searching the logs and identifying the issues."
"We can integrate threat intelligence solutions into the product."
"The tool has key features like operability. It will alert the admins whenever a device is onboarded."
"It gives us a bird's eye view of what's happening from our connection's point of view."
"The solution is quite stable."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer can improve by introducing integration with other Fortinet solutions with automation with one interface would be helpful."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
"In terms of what could be improved, sometimes it's lagging and it also has some graphical issues with the GUI."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer cannot receive any queries. They should add this feature in the future to help manage solutions."
"We are concerned about the compliance of our policy and institutional philosophy."
"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
"FortiAnalyzer's price could be lower."
"There are some API gaps that are missing."
"The initial setup is the most stressful, like learning how to use it."
"The integration with multiple sources could be better."
"In my opinion, this solution has a steep learning curve and requires practice if users to be able to use this tool very efficiently."
"If you want to up your subscription through the AWS Marketplace, it can be difficult. You can't just go back to the AWS Marketplace, and say, "I want a bigger one now." You have to contact the sales team, then they do it on the back-end. This could definitely be improved."
"It took a bit of trial and error to get it set up correctly based on everything we had to do. In the end, we had to send everything over HTTP, which was sort of a stop-gap."
"We would like to have some type of predefined setup for the logs, making the setup easier by default."
"There needs to be improvement on imported data which can be used within Sumo Logic to do more advanced queries."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 85 reviews while Sumo Logic Security is ranked 20th in Log Management with 18 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Sumo Logic Security is rated 8.6. 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 Sumo Logic Security writes "Used to store and monitor application logs and VPC flow logs". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Sumo Logic Security is most compared with Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel, Rapid7 InsightIDR, Splunk Enterprise Security and VMware Aria Operations for Logs. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Sumo Logic Security report.
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