Fortinet FortiAnalyzer Scalability
The solution is not really scalable. The solution is the largest. The solution is not in the security world and they don't have to have a threat on them to be secure. When we have a threat, we can't get distributed because our chain of logs is broken, and we don't get very regular events. We can't depend on this in the event of an accident or if they have to be reported because the chain is broken.
View full review »Scalability-wise, I rate the solution an eight out of ten. Approximately five administrators and some others to whom I have given read-only access use the solution.
View full review »We have different customers and are managing the network. We might have 500 people using the solution and maybe eight to ten customers utilizing the solution.
The solution is expensive. However, the issue is the cost. It will be expensive to scale. That said, if you want to expand, you can. I'd rate the scalability nine out of ten.
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
April 2024
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is highly scalable. You can easily adjust its capabilities to meet your evolving needs. Unlike other solutions I've used in the past, this one does not present any licensing restrictions. I had a requirement for increased terabytes per day and I smoothly upgraded my license through a simple process. I was provided with a trial license for the interim period and then my previous license was updated accordingly. The upgrade resulted in the desired terabytes per day and I was thoroughly satisfied with the experience.
At my company, there are four individuals who are utilizing this solution. These individuals consist of two network engineers, one security engineer, and myself serving as an administrator.
The scalability of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is good.
We have approximately 2,800 people using this solution in my organization on a daily basis.
The solution is suitable for all sized businesses.
View full review »We have ten network engineers in India working on this product. There are between ten people directly working with it.
In my location, we have 2,000 people and they are all users integrated into FortiAnalyzer. We are getting all logs for all these users through it.
It is a very scalable solution.
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Viswanathan Selvakumar
Senior Manager at Allsec Technologies Ltd
We have approximately three thousand users within our company. I would rate its scalability seven out of ten, as it should be improved.
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Sylvan
Works at renesas
The solution is scalable. Around 20 to 30 IT employees in our organization use the solution. I would rate the scalability a nine out of ten.
View full review »We can scale the solution, at least, according to our configuration.
About 200 people are using it in my company.
We will likely expand usage in the future.
View full review »The solution is scalable.
The management side requires an additional user account that is maintained and AD authenticated by the analyzer. It would be easier to integrate features without this required account that limits scalability from the management side.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer is scalable. It covers FortiGate firewalls, switches, etc. You can always buy more licenses or hardware if you need to upgrade.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer is scalable. It can even take over traffic from other analyzers. You can connect as many analyzers as you want to it.
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MatteoMazzei
Security Manager at Yarix S.r.l.
For our needs, FortiAnalyzer is scalable because we are not dealing with thousands of firewalls.
View full review »The solution is scalable. I rate it a seven out of ten.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
View full review »Compared to most other solutions, it is easier to scale Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. We also use FortiAnalyzer VM, so the scalability is pretty flexible. Around 1000 employees in our organization use the solution.
View full review »It offers a capacity of up to two thousand gigabytes of logs daily, showcasing considerable scalability. I believe it is a scalable solution that can easily accommodate increasing needs without compromising performance. Our clients fall into the enterprise category. I would rate it eight out of ten.
View full review »I am currently utilizing the cloud version of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, and the scalability it offers is exceptional. Unlike the on-premises version, I have not encountered any issues.
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reviewer2132547
solution architect at a non-profit with 51-200 employees
The scalability is okay. I'd rate it between five and seven out of ten.
We have 2,000 users on the solution right now.
View full review »This is a scalable solution.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
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Jan Christiaan
Network Security Engineer at Social Security Commission
We have found this to be a fairly scalable solution.
View full review »The solution is scalable and expandable. It's not an issue at all.
We have three people working on it in our organization.
View full review »We have around 2,000 users.
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reviewer2255289
IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees
It is scalable. We could change the size. It was easy.
We have mainly two people working with Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. My colleague and I from the Netherlands work on it. All IT departments also can access it. In total, we have five or six users, but mainly, two of us work on it.
View full review »Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
View full review »It's a very scalable solution. I'd rate the ability to extend ten out of ten. It's excellent.
We work with mostly small and medium companies.
View full review »I would say that more than ten of our clients are working on this solution. I would say that it is kind of scalable since it comes in different form factors. Owing to the different form factors and sizing of the solution, you can add and get increased capacity. This can help a person to add more firewalls and devices.
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AhmedNatil
Security Manager at Alternative Solutions
The solution is scalable.
This solution is suitable for all sized companies.
I rate the scalability of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer a nine out of ten.
View full review »Scalability is irrelevant to me because we have a small setup. One analyzer is enough for me.
View full review »Depending on the licenses you procure, the number of devices, and the storage space that you have, to be able to attain those logs and reports, the solution can scale.
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reviewer953235
Security Engineer at a recreational facilities/services company with 10,001+ employees
It's pretty scalable. The units that we have are the right size for the amount of stuff that we're running, but they do have products that scale up to handle significantly more Fortigate firewalls in log stuff than we do. I would say about 20 people use FortiAnalyzer. There's me, the security engineer, and the network engineering team, which uses it to look at stuff on the firewalls or check the firewall logs. And our information security group uses it to look at stuff that's going on with the firewalls as well as compromised hosts. It is being used pretty well as we get further down the path of deploying our FortiGate-managed endpoint product. There'll be more users and probably more use cases for it in the future.
View full review »It is easy to scale; there are no challenges.
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reviewer930837
Senior Manager (Engineering Department) at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees
In terms of scalability, it really depends. For our customer, the SME customer, not that many people need it. If you talk about scalability around analysis, related to the hub and space, the hub disk size, and the capacity of the box, for the on-prem model, we need to choose it with some buffer. We can't foresee any scalability issue for that customer.
We only have one client on the solution.
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reviewer1386216
Conseiller en architecture technologique at a government with 1-10 employees
I can't speak to the scalability. It's not an aspect of the solution I've tried to deal with. I'm unsure if it expands easily or if it would be difficult to do so.
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AbyJoseph
CEO at Corem Technologies
I don't think the built-in memory can be upgraded for the Analyzer. I think it is not possible. That means that the hardware is more suitable for large companies.
View full review »It is a scalable solution. Our company is very proud of FortiGate solutions.
View full review »For cloud, the solution is always scalable. We have about ten customers using Fortinet FortiAnalyzer.
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777246
Solutions Consultant at a manufacturing company with 11-50 employees
I give the scalability of the solution an eight out of ten.
This solution is suitable for enterprise customers with a large number of devices and logs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer enables the compilation of log files over a period of time, such as 90 days in Thailand. This is especially useful for gathering and analyzing data.
View full review »The product can scale. It's simple to expand as necessary.
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Sayed Qurany Ali
Senior System Administrator at Citystars Properties
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
We have five managers that are using the solutions.
View full review »The solution does not scale easily. It's a hardware solution. We have FortiAnalyzer hardware, and since it has a hardware agent on the storage ware, it requires Forti capacity for analyzing purposes. There's only a finite amount of space in the hardware itself. It isn't infinite.
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reviewer1217868
Information security officer at a financial services firm with 1-10 employees
You pay compared to the volume of logs you collect. It is very scalable. It's highly expandable. On a scale from one to ten, I'd rate the scalability ten out of ten.
We have less than five network engineers using the product.
View full review »FortiAnalyzer is scalable. When my organization expands in any way, I can implement a FortiAnalyzer as a collector only, it will collect the log, and I can send this to the main analyzer. If I use the virtual alert mode, this is a stackable license, so I can expand the log size or the internal hard-disc log size by purchasing a license. There is also a workaround solution, to automatically upload the old log file to shared storage and delete the old one, which gives more space in the hard drive.
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reviewer1718736
Vice President of Innovation and Customer Solutions at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is easy to scale. We have approximately 50-100 employees using this solution.
View full review »Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable.
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MahmoodAbdollahi
Senior Network Engineer at Dejpaad
It's a scalable product and expands well.
Only admins use the solution. There are three to four people with direct access to the product.
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Imad Awwad
Group IT Manager at a manufacturing company with 1,001-5,000 employees
The scalability is pretty good. It's only limited in the log size. You can buy five gigs or 10 gigs if you need to. It depends on how you're going to handle/store the logs.
That said, it is scalable since you are only billed with the size of logs you are using as per the packages and you don't need to modify the cpu/ram. I have it installed on a VM environment and it's connecting to data all over my sites that are both inside and outside Lebanon.
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Ashok Lamsal
Security Engineer at a financial services firm with 501-1,000 employees
The solution is scalable but there are additional costs if you want to increase the scalability.
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reviewer1406484
Jr. Engineer at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees
It is scalable. This solution is being used for a government department with a lot of users.
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reviewer1392267
Fraud Risk Analyst at a university with 1,001-5,000 employees
For the cloud version, you can expand it as you need it.
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AlesCiber
ICT System Specialist at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees
This is solution is very scalable.
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Dharmarajen Palanee
Technical lead at Rogers Capital Technology Services Ltd
The scalability of the program is good and we are hoping to increase our usage. I would like to see new features and better functionality, though. For the scalability of the FortiAnalyzer, we need to take into consideration the time it will take to load 30 users instead of only 14. So maybe we would perhaps need an upgrade license for FortiAnalyzer deployment in that case.
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Mazin Al Bulushi
Information Security Specialist at Ministry of Heritage and Culture
We have 600 users and do plan to increase usage in the future.
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H+Erbs Molefi
Network Administrator at a university with 501-1,000 employees
My understanding from the literature is that you can connect up to two FortiGate devices, or firewalls. Right now I have two 900D firewalls connected in the same network.
We have approximately twenty-five hundred users, including students and staff. There are six people who manage this solution. At this time, the current solution is enough and we do not need to increase its usage.
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Raul Pastrana
Consultor de Seguridad at Netrix, LLC (X956)
No scalability issues. You should know how many logs per second or minute are generated in your network to avoid issues with scalability.
View full review »We have had no problems with scalability.
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Dilip Saraf
Regional Head at MASS INFONET (P) LTD.
The scalability is good. If a company needs to scale the solution, they are able to do so very easily.
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Rafael Riera
Pre-sales Engineer at a wholesaler/distributor with 51-200 employees
It is scalable up to the maximum requirement of our customers. Our customers don't require a lot of firewalls, such as 100 or 1,000.
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PrideChieza
Network Security Engineer at ZOL Zimbabwe
The licensing limits the storage in terms of how much information it can store. For example, you can collect seven gigs of log files in a day.
We have twenty firewalls connecting to FortiAnalyzer. We are moving some of them to the FortiCloud platform because we get thirty days of reporting on a non-subscription basis with FortiCloud. With FortiAnalyzer, we would have to pay for more licenses.
At this stage, we do not plan to increase usage. The majority of our clients who have entry-level firewalls are now depending on FortiCloud. It is more robust than us having more of the FortiAnalyzer devices. Because FortiCloud is accessible from anywhere, a client can easily manage it, rather than us giving them access to the Fortianalyzer. So, we're finding FortiCloud being a better option than us having an on-site FortiAnalyzer.
View full review »It is easy to scale.
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Mohammed NAJI
Head of Service at MPM
We have between 20 and 25 users and we plan to increase this number, so I believe the program is scalable.
View full review »The scalability is also fine if you do your prerequisites right. If so, you won't have any issues. But if you don't do your scoping right, and more logs come into the system - more than it can handle - you will face issues. You need to do your scoping right to get it to be stable and scalable.
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Luis Gerardo Gonzalez
Systems Architect at ZENTIUS
It is a little complex in terms of scalability and mostly because we're using a kind of high-end systems. For scaling, you have to order a different licensing and move more power and computing into a new architecture. It doesn't have that much scalability.
Our clients are SMB or small and medium businesses, but we also have plenty of customers on the campus wide area network.
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Rupsan Shrestha
Technical Presales Engineer at Dristi Tech Pvt.ltd
I'd say that it's very scalable. Scalability depends on which version of the appliance you're using.
If you're using a hardware-based appliance, it's obviously tough to scale as that would require purchasing new devices. If you go to cloud services or virtual services, it's pretty easy to scale. You need to purchase new VMs and add the IOCs that you need, which is easy.
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reviewer1526976
IT Security Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
The scalability might be limited depending on the installation.
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reviewer1247817
Presales Technical Specialist at a computer software company with 201-500 employees
It is scalable.
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reviewer911601
Chief Technical Officer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
This solution is scalable.
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reviewer1266429
Implementation Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
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.
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HassamUddin
System Administrator at a logistics company with 51-200 employees
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.
View full review »No issues.
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reviewer1502592
Security Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees
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.
View full review »No issues after installing the 1000E.
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reviewer880938
IT Network, Security Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is scalable. It can handle small to large-scale analysis.
View full review »The FortiAnalyzer is not scalable.
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Fortinet FortiAnalyzer. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
767,847 professionals have used our research since 2012.