We compared Amazon CloudWatch and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users' reviews in five categories. We reviewed all of the data and you can find the conclusion below.
Features: Amazon CloudWatch users liked the solution’s simplicity, intuitive interface, and ability to handle large workloads. Users also praised CloudWatch’s comprehensive monitoring and alerts. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Some reviews mentioned that Amazon CloudWatch could improve performance and dashboard visualization through. Others noted that the solution lacked compatibility with some databases. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Customers generally have positive opinions about Amazon's customer service. They commended the support team for its availability and timely issue resolution. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Amazon CloudWatch is generally described as easy to set up. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Amazon CloudWatch offers a flexible pricing structure based on usage and processing, without any separate licensing cost. Some users said that scaling up can be costly due to the need for additional storage space. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Amazon CloudWatch offers a return on investment by minimizing the need for manual monitoring. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"The detection is the most valuable feature."
"The solution gives us very good real-time data."
"It is a robust analytical tool and it goes beyond mere functionality and extends into the realm of providing comprehensive insights."
"Setting up this product was easy. I found data analytics as its most valuable feature."
"I can put it in a simple term, its simplicity is always there."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is its ease of use and logs. You do not have to go to each separate system to see the logs, such as Syslog and they are located in one dashboard GUI."
"The most valuable feature of Amazon CloudWatch is intrusion prevention."
"The product helps us collect and store various metrics to set test alarms."
"It's a very stable product."
"One of the most valuable features is the ability to analyze data in real-time using AR features to pull data from the industrial DB. You can know what is going on and see in milliseconds where the network is underperforming."
"One of the greatest advantages of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is its ability to integrate with a variety of software and solutions, providing comprehensive visibility into the network. The solution's strength lies in its capability to work with Fortinet's own products, such as the FortiAP access point, which allows for deep monitoring, automation, correlation, and incident management. However, this functionality is not present when utilizing other products, such as those from Cisco, limiting the visibility and benefits that can be gained."
"It has a simplified and user-friendly interface."
"We use this functionality every day, and obtain reports on things like how many people are using the VPN, which websites are being accessed, and whether hackers are trying to penetrate into our network."
"It is easy to integrate Fortinet FortiAnalyzer with other products. You have a better overview of what's going on."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"Technical reports clearly identify system checks, locations and areas, how many times things escape, which firewall is affected, and source IDs."
"It would be beneficial for CloudWatch to provide an API interface and some kind of custom configuration."
"The solution's auto-scaling could be improved."
"There's a learning curve with Amazon CloudWatch since we have to learn to write the queries to extract the keys and logs."
"The product's configuration has some challenges. The solution needs to be more user-friendly."
"Right now, in relation to monitoring services, there are too many services and too many metrics per service."
"I think something that can be improved are the alerts and alerting mechanism based on no rejects. We want to have it more flexible and that is one of the key things that is required."
"The product should provide more features."
"What would make Amazon CloudWatch better is if it includes more on-site checks, particularly status checks on the CPU, network input/output, etc. It would also be helpful if there's built-in swap space, disk, and memory monitoring in Amazon CloudWatch because, at the moment, my team has to configure it manually through a shell script."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer cannot receive any queries. They should add this feature in the future to help manage solutions."
"Our organization wants the solution to be able to provide us access to a centralized dashboard that displays a log view for all firewalls under Fortinet FortiAnalyzer."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to search logs in integrated solutions."
"The setup of the solution can be improved because it is currently complex."
"The pricing could be better."
"The solution can improve the incident response function to provide more detailed information on where the incident is originating."
"The interface or GUI does not work properly on Microsoft Edge. The behavior or the view is different on Microsoft Edge versus on Chrome or Firefox. When some buttons do not work, I am forced to switch to Firefox."
"The product should be integrated with other third-party solutions for context exchange."
Amazon CloudWatch is ranked 12th in Log Management with 40 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews. Amazon CloudWatch is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Amazon CloudWatch writes "Instantaneous response when monitoring logs and KPIs". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Amazon CloudWatch is most compared with Zabbix, Datadog, Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver), Dynatrace and SolarWinds NPM, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM. See our Amazon CloudWatch vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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