We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Security Onion based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."There are customizable workflows that you can work with. You can automate certain tasks in FortiAnaylzer in the incidents and events sections."
"The scalability is good. It is also good in the cluster nodes. You can make multiple FortiAnalyzer clusters groups, and you can distribute the logs between these FortiAnalyzer nodes. In other words, you can expand the scale."
"The most valuable is its robust and comprehensive reporting functionality, providing a thorough overview of various metrics."
"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."
"The solution is easy to use and easy to integrate."
"It's easy to set up the product."
"It is a simple and solution."
"The log events are quite useful for us."
"The most valuable feature of Security Onion for security monitoring is its ability to find infected ports."
"Security Onion is the most mature solution in the market."
"We use Security Onion for internal vulnerability assessment."
"From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities."
"In terms of what could be improved, sometimes it's lagging and it also has some graphical issues with the GUI."
"The pricing could be better. They could work to make it more competitive on the market."
"We'd like to see more embedded features."
"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."
"They can include integration with devices, such as firewalls, endpoints, from other vendors. They can include graphic monitoring of everything in the network, not just Fortinet products. It would also be good to include customizable reports and customizable views of the reports."
"They need to make the monitor better."
"The following could be better: operation and maintenance, high-availability architecture, and management link embedded in the transmission link."
"Security Onion's user interface could be improved."
"The product is not easy to learn."
"The initial setup of the solution is a little bit difficult."
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 81 reviews while Security Onion is ranked 33rd in Log Management with 3 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Security Onion is rated 7.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Security Onion writes "A mature and affordable solution that is easy to install and easy to update". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Security Onion is most compared with Wazuh, Elastic Stack, TheHive, Splunk Enterprise Security and Nagios Log Server. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Security Onion report.
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