We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Pandora FMS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The most valuable feature is the anomaly-reporting alarms."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"One of the most valuable features is that we can combine SOC and NOC operations in the same tool. We can provide NOC and SOC services in the same tool for two separate teams. There are plenty of third-party solutions that integrate with FortiSIEM. All these solutions already have a ready integration, and we have the possibility to create a custom connector for these solutions. Its reports are also very good."
"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."
"It gives us the opportunity to generate notifications based upon rules that get triggered, and the rules could be specific to PCI, HIPAA, GIBA, NIST, and so forth."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM has its own validated and authentic IP database that marks malicious IP attacks against the firewall and generates an alert for the same."
"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."
"The advanced agents used to collect logs have been most valuable. We have also made use of the advanced intelligence this solution offers."
"It is easy to create your own custom modules if you just know a little bit of scripting. If you have unique requirements, you can just make your own modules. You can even grab checks from other vendors. There are open-source checks for various things such as SMTP, etc. There is a long list of different ones from Nagios. You can just use them, and within seconds, you get yourself a check that is monitoring whatever you need. It is really flexible. I guess that's why they call it Pandora Flexible Monitoring System (FMS). It is reliable. It does the job, and it alerts. It is also surprisingly feature-rich. Our network guy just recently asked about a particular protocol to monitor the bandwidth on the network, which is not a common protocol. When I looked it up, and I found that they cover it. It is very mature for a not-so-known product."
"You can configure several types of architecture for high availability or load balancing."
"Thanks to this software and to the work of the support team, we have everything under control."
"We are able to control our business with this all-in-one monitoring tool."
"The official forum is active enough to answer most of the high-end technical questions that you may have."
"The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system."
"This solution has screens that are easy to understand and provide a wealth of information."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."
"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."
"It would be good if the solution offered even more configuration options, especially in relation to the VPN so that it continues to be a very flexible option."
"It lacks a "wizard" that shows a particular user's activity or particular circumstance. I think the interface is intimidating because there's so much information there."
"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."
"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."
"The solution needs to do a better job with third party integration. Right now, that's lacking on the solution. I specifically am talking about the AWS environment. Most of the AWS environment products do not have that capability to integrate."
"A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"I think some improvements to the Android app would be good."
"Pandora FMS is relatively new, and the interface with the older version crashes at times. We have several different operating systems, such as Linux and Windows, and Pandora does not run as well in these."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"Pandora FMS is an overall great monitoring solution, but it does not have a community that is as large as Zabbix or Nagios."
"An update to the Android app would be appreciated."
"We would like the real-time monitoring of an interface to be improved within this solution."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while Pandora FMS is ranked 28th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Pandora FMS is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, Wazuh, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and SolarWinds NPM. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Pandora FMS report.
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