We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Zabbix 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."Analytics is the most valuable feature. The business service summaries in the dashboards and the correlations for the SIEM are also valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the user and entity behave as analytics(UEBA). This feature mixes your data and provides useful information based on the behavior of the targeted."
"The event correlation is pretty robust. The GUI is pretty good."
"The interface is very easy to use. The connector in the core has FortiSIEM support from the vendor."
"I like the various options, including the option for CMDB and the easier access to create rules, playbooks, or use cases. It's also easier to use for creating dashboards and reports."
"The seamless integration with FortiGate is the solution's most valuable aspect."
"I like FortiSIEM because it integrates natively with our other Fortinet solutions and the Fortinet Fabric, but it also integrates with Cisco, Palo Alto and other security fabrics."
"It's very easy for anyone to work with."
"We are able to do problem determination on runaway processes."
"There is less computing power needed for scaling."
"The most valuable feature is network traffic monitoring."
"The level of discovery-based configuration that lets us auto-configure the monitoring for various systems is a valuable feature."
"The overall functionality of Zabbix is very good. The monitoring of bank applications that Zabbix provides is great. The information is displayed on a dashboard that is easily viewed."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"It meets my organizational needs. It's pretty easy to use."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"We expect the latest patch from Fortinet FortiSIEM to give the ability to work with signature files."
"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."
"Their product support, in general, is not that great. The product support is in the same ecosystem. Their support is improving but it's not that great.vvv"
"Its training can be improved. Its price also needs to be improved."
"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."
"There is no proper guide for integration or configuration."
"The backup and recovery process for this solution needs improvement."
"Network detection and response is a separate product."
"Zabbix technical support is sold separately."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"There are some features of Zabbix that are not good for reporting. The DX Spectrum solution has better reporting."
"When using this solution in enterprise monitoring, you are able to see that there are some issues with equipment that could be causing a problem. Sometimes you want to make a root command that you do not want to be executed automatically. What we have tried to do is open an SSH session directly from the solution's interface but it is not possible."
"Implementation is always tailored to the customer and the kind of information we need from the client to carry it out can make them very uncomfortable. Sometimes the clients are not ready to share it."
"The integration of the product is not so easy, especially when it comes to the application database."
"Zabbix does not draw automatic mapping of the network, this is something they should add in the future. There is a lot of effort that is involved in tailoring some of the settings which could be made easier."
"The server monitoring could be better."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 9th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Zabbix 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 Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh and AlienVault OSSIM, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, SolarWinds NPM, Nagios Core and Nagios XI. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Zabbix report.
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