Fortinet FortiAnalyzer Reviews

The feature I find most valuable is the reporting customization.

Areas for improvement would be the default template reporting and the user-friendliness of the report customization. In the next release, I would like to see more information about tracking intelligence.

I have been using this product for over five years.

This solution is stable.

This solution is scalable.

Technical support is fine, but they could improve their understanding of the customer environment when troubleshooting.

The initial setup is ok.

The pricing of this product should be about 10-20% lower.

This is a good product, but I think there are better ones for log analytics. I would rate this product seven out of ten.

• Real time reports
• Reports on who tried to attack
• FortiGate monitor

Before using FortiAnalyzer, people would surf wherever and we could not monitor or see which computer in the company goes where. Everyone had the same IP. Now, using the analyzer, I am able to see each IP separately, including user name and other stats. One time the police called and told me someone from the company was breaking the law and I was able to monitor the specific computer.

They should learn from CheckPoint how to design UX for admins.

No issues encountered.

It's very stable.

I've not used them yet.

I've not used them yet.

We previously used a previous solution.

It was straightforward.

We did it in-house.

It's a great ROI for the price.

Only get it if you need it.

We're resellers of Fortinet. The solution is a product for doing diagnostics on their security environment. Our primary clients are banks or medical organizations.

The solution is very easy to deploy. 

We are very familiar with the product. It makes it easy to use and implement. 

The interface is easy to configure and fast to deploy. For that reason we use FortiAnalyzer.

FortiAnalyzer only works with other Fortinet products. If you need to analyze the data from other devices, other vendors, this solution is not the best one to use.

The interoperability with other vendors is lacking. It's very limited. You can scan the logs from other vendors within FortiAnalyzer, however, it only collects these logs. You can't analyze anything coming from other devices or vendors. This works very well with Fortinet products. When you need to interoperate with other vendors, it's difficult, because you don't have that support.

In future releases, we'd like to see more granular reporting. The reports on offer right now are pretty short.

We've been using the solution for more than ten years at this point. It's been a decade or so.

The stability of the solution is excellent. It's very robust. We don't have issues with bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's extremely reliable.

The scalability is okay, however, it depends. If you do your homework and make the right sizing, you don't need the scalability. However, if you need scalability, it depends on the kind of client. You may need to change the box or move the FortiAnalyzer to another analyzer - something bigger - or maybe move the analyzer hardware to a better machine, depending on the customer.

Normally, we deal with small to medium-sized organizations.

The technical support is very good. We have support right here in our country, and they give us very good support. We don't have a problem in this case. We've very satisfied with the level of service we get.

The initial setup is not complex at all. It's very, very straightforward.

The deployment is quick and it's easy to configure. How long it takes depends on the size of the company that we are working for. Normally, we're able to do it within the same day, and we deploy the device or the virtual machine within that time frame. Depending on the requirements of the company, we may also optimize the reporting.

We handle the deployment ourselves. We've been doing it for so long at this point, we've very comfortable with it.

We use different deployment versions of Fortinet solutions. We use, for example, 200E and 200D and 100 too. These are the most popular. Right now, use the virtual environment.

This is a product that is very good for when you're using a Fortinet ecosystem. If you have a mix of vendors, it's not recommended.

Overall, I would rate the solution at a nine out of ten. We've been quite happy with their offering.

The anti-virus protection it offers our clients is solid.

Currently, no solution can offer you 100% protection from viruses such as WannaCry ransomware. Fortinet should strive to improve their prevention systems.

I have been using this solution for about two to three years.

This solution is stable.

FortiAnalyzer does slow down when there is a heavy load of users, but it still does its job. Also, when many logs are generated throughout many sessions, the Analyser slows down. 

The technical support is not very reliable. Sometimes it takes them up to a week to get back to us. 

The initial setup is not complex. The basic setup takes roughly 30 minutes to one hour — reconfiguration can take up to one day.

If you have Fortinet Firewall, you must implement FortiAnalyzer because, without the Analyzer, you can't generate the polls. 

On a scale from one to ten, I would give this solution a rating of seven. I would give them a higher rating if they improved their scalability.

This product is only used for logs and reporting.

It gives us reporting features, which are helpful in the case of troubleshooting and audit purposes.

It has detailed reporting, e.g., user-wise reporting, threat analysis, etc. It also gives you live logs, which can be really helpful during troubleshooting. 

It should have customized reports as well. While it currently has them, you need to write a script which is not straightforward.

No issues.

No issues.

I would rate it as a two out of 10. The technical support takes at least two days to reply on any ticket post raised on their website. 

We did not have a previous solution.

Initial setup is straightforward, and it has an easy setup.

It depends upon the company.

We evaluated SonicWall and Cisco.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is simple and reliable. It does what the product says it would do. We have a lot of replacements in Turkey, Palo Alto, Check Point, and Forcepoint. We are replacing these various vendors with Fortinet products. But there are some software issues, like bugs or bug fixes. Otherwise, we are very happy with Fortinet products.

In terms of what could be improved, sometimes it's lagging and also has some graphical issues with the GUI. The correlation mechanism and the analytics are not as good as the competitors like Check Point or Panorama. But for IoT and SoT, it has graphical dashboards and analytical diagram tables that can correlate various logs from other products like FortiMail and FortiWeb, so it is a good mechanism for Fortinet products. If you have various Fortinet products for your firm, you can use FortiAnalyzer like a synchro mechanism.

But it needs development for software issues like the GUI bug, some logs not showing, not collecting some logs... They need to fix them.

I have been using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for almost five years and maybe six years experience with Fortinet products.

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.

We have SLA agreements with the customers, so we are giving the technical support.

The initial setup is very simple.

If it is an individual environment, it may take one hour to complete the entire initial setup.

If the hardware requires physical adjustments for the cabinet location or the protected area, then it may take 2 hours.

I would absolutely recommend FortiAnalyzer. Fortinet products have internal logging mechanisms if they have internal disks or stores. But if you have multiple location SD-WAN branches for multiple areas you are controlling with FortiGate, the hardware doesn't give any disk or storage, only limited storage. So if you want to go further on the logging, you have limited options, maybe one week or two weeks. So if you're using a FortiAnalyzer in the SD-WAN branches, you have a centralized logging mechanism, so you can collect all the logs in a  central location and you can make the correlations or analytics with all the devices. Otherwise, you can go device, device to see what is happening on each site.

On a scale of one to ten, I would give Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a seven.

To improve this rating, as I mentioned, I need to see the older bugs, the graphical user experience, made better, like Check Point. Check Point is more visual than FortiAnalyzer. If the customer has experience with the Check Point logging mechanism, they will seek additional features in the FortiAnalyzer, but it has to be more visual. 

So as I said, the graphical issues must improve.

The product is really helpful in examining the logs of multiple firewalls on a single GUI.

Log View is the most valuable part for us, as we can view logs from different Fortigates on a single GUI. 

Another important feature is real-time logs, they help a lot in troubleshooting.

I think some improvement is required in real-time log monitoring, as sometimes it gets stuck or displays results after a delay.

No issues yet.

No issues after installing the 1000E.

Good.

We used view local logs before this.

It's straightforward, just add in different FortiGuards the IP address of FortiAnalyzer.

It's worth spending on FortiAnalyzer if you have multiple firewalls in your network.

I use Fortinet FortiAnalyzer to analyze network logs for increased security protection.

We can see and know our network traffic graphically.

Based on the logs of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer you can have it trigger actions. For example, if the log has a word or a sentence you specified it can send an alert to an email address or SNMP trap.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer cannot use as SNMP Manager so cannnot receive any queries of SNMP. They should add this feature in the future to help manage solutions.

I have been using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer for approximately eight years.

I have found the solution to be stable. However, when the computer's resources are low the analysis becomes slow. There could be some optimization done.

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable. It can handle small to large-scale analysis.

The initial installation is easy. You set up the interface IP address and then you can have access. If you use the web GUI, it's very easy to connect to FortiGate and other Fortinet solutions.

If a company purchases FortiGate they should purchase Fortinet FortiAnalyzer together. The reason is FortiGate does not have an interface for analyzing logs but if you have the Fortinet FortiAnalyzer it can analyze logs and give reports on the logs giving you more protection.

I rate Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a nine out of ten.