We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and PRTG Network Monitor 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 ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."
"The solution’s IP database is awesome."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."
"Its automated response feature has benefited our customer communication. Analysts feel more confident in providing timely responses."
"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."
"Analytics is the most valuable feature. The business service summaries in the dashboards and the correlations for the SIEM are also valuable features."
"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."
"Technical support has been very helpful so far."
"The solution is very easy to use and the web provides information with ease."
"From a network point of view, we can see the state of the network, as well as bandwidth usage and downtime."
"The fact that I can use custom MIB files to customize my sensors for the things that are not there as a default is a good feature."
"The network visualization helps us to drill down deeper."
"The product is simple and easy to implement."
"What I've found most valuable is the custom sensor, which allows you to write scripts or code to monitor a specific metric in your environment."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."
"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."
"The reporting feature is not very attractive for the upper management and I am not able to perform complex/nested queries."
"There is no proper guide for integration or configuration."
"The support of the product changed recently, and I don't think it's for the better. They should work to improve the support they offer to clients."
"Customer support service could be better."
"They need to integrate better with Cisco and Palo Alto."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is a little out of sight and needs more marketing efforts to be popular in the market."
"I would like to see a more robust platform and a new dashboard. In addition, the code is good, but it needs improvement."
"A room for improvement in PRTG Network Monitor is its sensors. Its application technology sensor, such as the IAS, .NET, etc., needs some improvement because it doesn't work as expected. For example, the IAS sensor doesn't give immediate information, and the information you get from it isn't of good value. The web GUI of PRTG Network Monitor also needs improvement because errors keep popping up if it's not been updated to the latest version. What I'd like to see in the next release of the tool is end-to-end topology mapping for the business model, and that should be required. There has to be a technical map. Technical mapping and topological creation are missing in PRTG Network Monitor, so I would like to see those in the future."
"The product could be improved by being cross-platform friendly."
"The technical support could respond a little bit quicker."
"PRTG Network Monitor can improve Layer 2 and Layer 3 network maps and the GUI more user-friendly. Additionally, they should bundle the features so I can monitor everything on one particular device."
"PRTG Network Monitor could improve by having a feature to allow uploading of preset standard network switch configurations and the ability to monitor the SLA configuration, such as uptime for the switches or internet connectivity. This would be very useful."
"Maybe in the future there will be room for improvement, but currently, there is nothing pressing that I can think of"
"We run it in a cluster, so we have two that run together. The cluster behind it is sketchy at times."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while PRTG Network Monitor is ranked 5th in Network Monitoring Software with 96 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while PRTG Network Monitor is rated 8.2. 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 PRTG Network Monitor writes "It's an all-in-one solution, and net flow is included in the licensing ". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and ManageEngine Log360, whereas PRTG Network Monitor is most compared with Zabbix, Centreon, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios XI and Auvik Network Management (ANM). See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. PRTG Network Monitor report.
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