We performed a comparison between Elastic Beats and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Splunk, Datadog, Wazuh and others in Log Management."The security aspects in general have been very useful to use."
"There's a whole spectrum of features on the solution that users can take advantage of. It's a very robust product."
"Storage in SSD helps in generating customized reports."
"FortiAnalyzer's best feature is centralized log analysis. It's based on SQL database, so I can fully customize my report, chart-wise and log-wise, and can create as many reports as I want without any limit."
"FortiAnalyzer has a user-friendly interface with a quick response and good analytics. It's very secure because it's taking the log from the devices on a secure channel, so there is no problem with that in your network."
"There are customizable workflows that you can work with. You can automate certain tasks in FortiAnaylzer in the incidents and events sections."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"The feature I find most useful is the handy dashboard."
"The event handling solution in the platform is very good and useful."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since, in our company, we have never experienced the solution crashing or having any other issues."
"At some level, the documentation, the information as far as the components, it's sometimes a little difficult to find the information necessary to implement aspects."
"The dashboard is not user-friendly. The solution, in general, isn't great from a user's perspective."
"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
"The integration with other vendors for log collection could be enhanced."
"I would like to see an improvement in the technical support. Stronger authentication will also be a plus."
"One of the main disadvantages is not having a direct link to the security policy when you see something in the log."
"They could improve the user interface a bit."
"The solution should include the ability to customize reports so that customers receive greater value and high level reporting."
"We would like to do the reporting, logging, and administration of all the public devices and all the IoT devices. We wish to add the switches, and routers from different vendors, so it's not a vendor-specific diagnostic solution."
"It is very important that FAZ can support FortiController as the architecture designed for the network. FortiController should be registered in FAZ at least for event logs."
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Elastic Beats doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Log Management while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 44 reviews. Elastic Beats is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "It creates a central point of management and control, giving you real-time insight into what is going on. ". Elastic Beats is most compared with , whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer and LogRhythm SIEM.
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