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."The features are good."
"It is easy to set up the solution."
"The SD-WAN deployment environment, and the SD-WAN templates are particularly useful. Managing the solution is very intuitive. The initial setup of the solution was very straightforward."
"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."
"A fully integrated solution."
"Without FortiManager, you cannot manage a complex environment across several sites with multiple firewalls."
"It is easy to manage a huge number of devices with FortiManager."
"FortiManager's most valuable features are web-based or web-rule-based policies, SD-WAN, and the ease of upgrading to new firmware."
"I have found that the reporting feature in Zabbix is most valuable. Additionally, the solution has given us bandwidth options, we are able to see where problems are. For example, we noticed a problem that occurred because of a bad interface going in the wireless VLAN."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The solution is stable."
"Zabbix is a cost-effective solution. We're a small organization with a few dozen devices to monitor, and it was available for free. We can see what we need. We haven't done an in-depth analysis on it, but we're currently okay with the product."
"Zabbix is an excellent performance monitoring tool."
"Zabbix is both stable and scalable."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"The flexible licensing model is one of the solution's most valuable aspects. It really allows for great flexibility for companies."
"We have experienced a series of minor bugs that necessitated contacted technical support on several occasions."
"The SD-WAN solution is difficult to manage on FortiManager because you need to share some configurations on the firewall side. Sometimes you lose all connectivity with the firewall, so it is challenging to apply the default configuration to the SD-WAN solution."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"If you have more than one FortiMail device, you can't manage it then with FortiManager on FortiGate."
"The information extraction through command lines was could improve to some extent. Although there were some command lines available, there were not enough options. For instance, I needed to obtain the management IP address of my two Fortigates, but the Fortinet FortiManager did not provide me with the IP address on the LAN interface. I attempted to find this information through the command line but was unsuccessful. I also searched for articles on the internet, but could not find a solution. This is an aspect that could be improved or potentially there is a method to access this information that I have yet to discover."
"There may be a communication issue. However, other items may be the culprit, such as network connectivity. It depends on the customer's network."
"The fabric for integrations or connections could be improved."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"When we have a problem, we have to do a lot of research to solve it."
"The graphical user interface could be customized a little bit more, and also the dashboard could be more friendly."
"I had problems using Zabbix when working with SUSE Enterprise; many companies use SUSE."
"Zabbix claims that there is an auto-discovery process but my team member was facing difficulty and was told that it's not really automatic, and there are some manual steps."
"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."
"To improve Zabbix, adding more features to support the monitoring of modern workloads like containers would be beneficial."
"The solution needs to add features for finding loopholes or problems and their root causes."
"The APM monitoring has room for improvement, although I hear that the new 5.2 version has some improvements in that area, and I'd like to give that a go. I would like to see a few more templates out there for different styles of monitoring. I use the Grafana interface for reporting. I would also like it to have an out-of-the-box ability to email reports. You can create reports, but to be able to email those reports would be really helpful. I've got users who are not interested in logging in and generating a report. They want it all pre-canned and sent to an email address. It would also be really handy if we could pin certain reports up onto platforms such as Teams or SharePoint. A GUI for the proxy server would be cool to have for debugging purposes and for the support teams to have a look at, but I don't know whether that's really feasible to do. I get enough from the log files themselves."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 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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