We compared Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs Wazuh based on our users’ reviews in four categories. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Comparison of Results: Based on the parameters we compared, Wazuh seems to be the superior solution. Our reviewers feel that because Fortinet FortiAnalyzer’s integration capabilities are limited, its price is expensive, and there is a question about how effective its technical support is, Wazuh is a better investment.
"It has a simplified and user-friendly interface."
"The anti-virus protection it offers our clients is solid."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is the capturing of traffic for reports."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its performance."
"It is very stable and reliable."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a complete package for managing our equipment."
"From my perspective, we need to see the traffic in a good way so we can know what has happened in our network. The analyzing tools and the monitoring tools and the logs are the important part in the network."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"Wazuh is free and easy to use. It is also adjustable, and we can use it on the cloud and on-premises."
"The deployment is easy and they provide very good documentation."
"One of the most beneficial features of Wazuh, particularly in the context of security needs, is the machine learning data handling capability."
"I like the cloud-native infrastructure and that it's free. We didn't have to pay anything, and it has the capabilities of many premium solutions in the market. We could integrate all of our services and infrastructure in the cloud with Wazuh. From an integration point of view, Wazuh is pretty good. I had a good experience with this platform."
"Wazuh is simple to use for PCI compliance."
"Its cost-effectiveness is the most valuable aspect."
"Good for monitoring, active response, and for vulnerabilities."
"It's very easy to integrate Wazuh with other environments, cloud applications, and on-prem applications. So, the advantage is that it's easy to implement and integrate with other solutions."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer should come bundled with other Fortinet solutions. Additionally, the performance and updates could improve. They need to test their updates better so there are not as many bugs."
"Automated reports focusing on compliance issues would provide a clearer understanding of potential gaps and the need for remediation."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
"I feel that Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a little bit heavy, making it an area where improvements are required."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"One thing we struggled with FortiAnalyzer was integration with SIEM. We also had issues with the new threats and APTs. There were false positives, so we needed to have some ratings related to false positives."
"Feature-wise, it is working very well for us. We don't need any additional features. However, its pricing can be improved. For small business customers, price is an important factor."
"Pricing should be about 10-20% lower."
"The tool does not provide CTI to monitor darknet."
"A lack of certain features creates limitations."
"Wazuh should come up with more in-built rules and integrations for the cloud."
"There's not much I like about Wazuh. Other products I've used were a lot more functional and user friendly. They came with reports and use cases out of the box. We need to configure Wazuh's alerts and monitoring capabilities manually. It'd be nice if we could select from templates and presets for use cases already built and coded."
"The computing resources are consuming and do not make sense."
"They could include flexibility and customization capabilities by modifying for customers based on partner agreements."
"The technical support can be improved. Wazuh has some bugs that need to be fixed. It would be good if we can have automation with respect to incidence responses."
"While it is scalable, it can suffer from reduced latencies."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Wazuh is ranked 2nd in Log Management with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Wazuh is rated 7.4. 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 Wazuh writes "It integrates seamlessly with AWS cloud-native services". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog, Datadog and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, whereas Wazuh is most compared with Elastic Security, Security Onion, AlienVault OSSIM, Splunk Enterprise Security and Microsoft Defender for Cloud. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Wazuh report.
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