We performed a comparison between Flowmon and Fortinet FortiGate IPS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Zabbix, Datadog, Auvik and others in Network Monitoring Software."We can manage the entire system across the network and troubleshoot the pain points."
"The artificial intelligence and automatic detection system in Flowmon Solution are perfect for every, type of customer, such as government and commerce."
"It is an open platform, so in terms of integration, we are quite happy. We can integrate it with other SNMP solutions. We can also integrate it with security solutions, such as a SIEM solution."
"The solution is stable."
"The initial setup is straightforward."
"Fortinet FortiGate IPS has an easy-to-use interface and configuration."
"The initial setup is very easy."
"Regionally, we are well covered. Technical support is good in this area."
"The product has an inbuilt IPS software. We can configure it to block specific anonymous attacks that are happening."
"The solution is user-friendly."
"The GUI is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable features are security and vision, and all of the UTM functionality."
"The Wi-Fi side needs improvement."
"If there was better visualization in Flowmon Solution it would be good."
"The licensing price could be better."
"It would be helpful to have more details about the monitoring of the infrastructure. It should have support for SNMP. This is something that is currently not there in the product."
"I have used technical support and they could improve."
"Monitoring could be improved."
"While the security is good, we'd always prefer if it was even better to ensure protection."
"The interface could be better."
"There is room for improvement in being proactive about identifying and integrating new signatures."
"Overall, the integration could be better."
"We would like to see an improvement in the consistency of the product's performance levels."
"The web filtering categories could improve in Fortinet FortiGate IPS. There are too many websites under the category of Unknown and the other categories are not featuring all the necessary sites."
Flowmon is ranked 70th in Network Monitoring Software while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is ranked 4th in Intrusion Detection and Prevention Software (IDPS) with 54 reviews. Flowmon is rated 8.0, while Fortinet FortiGate IPS is rated 8.4. The top reviewer of Flowmon writes "A stable and scalable solution allowing for the visibility of and the blocking of threats". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate IPS writes "Very stable with good network protection". Flowmon is most compared with Darktrace, SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, WhatsUp Gold and Vectra AI, whereas Fortinet FortiGate IPS is most compared with Palo Alto Networks Advanced Threat Prevention, Trend Micro TippingPoint Threat Protection System, Cisco NGIPS, Check Point IPS and ExtraHop Reveal(x) 360.
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