Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Rapid7 InsightIDR comparison

Fortinet and Rapid7 are both solutions in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category. Fortinet is ranked #7 with an average rating of 8.2, while Rapid7 is ranked #14 with an average rating of 8.1. Fortinet holds a 3.2% mindshare in SIEM, compared to Rapid7’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 82% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 95% of Rapid7 users who would recommend it.

Fortinet FortiSIEM

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82% willing to recommend

Rapid7 InsightIDR

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95% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Fortinet FortiSIEM and Rapid7 InsightIDR are leading solutions in the SIEM market. Rapid7 InsightIDR is seen as having the upper hand due to its superior feature set and ease of use.

Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM offers comprehensive security information and event management capabilities, real-time analysis, and scalability. Rapid7 InsightIDR has user-friendly advanced threat detection, incident response features, and strong integration capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to enhance its analytics functions, simplify configuration processes, and reduce deployment times. Rapid7 InsightIDR could improve its log management, fine-tune alerting mechanisms, and expand its customer support options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiSIEM users experience longer deployment times and a learning curve. Rapid7 InsightIDR users praise its quick deployment and responsive customer support.

Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM is known for cost-effectiveness, providing solid ROI with lower initial costs. Rapid7 InsightIDR has higher setup costs but offers significant ROI through its advanced features.

To learn more, read our detailed Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Rapid7 InsightIDR Report (Updated: September 2025).

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiSIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

7th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

5.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Rapid7 InsightIDR

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

14th

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.4

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

User Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) (5th), Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) (25th), Threat Deception Platforms (5th), Extended Detection and Response (XDR) (16th)

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.2%, up from 2.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Rapid7 InsightIDR is 2.5%, down from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Fortinet FortiSIEM	3.2%
Rapid7 InsightIDR	2.5%
Other	94.3%

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

Oliver Jackson

Network Engineer at Laminar Communications Pty Ltd

Systems monitoring enhanced by firewall and intrusion detection features

My primary use case for Fortinet FortiSIEM is systems monitoring and alerting. I use it for standard functions like log monitoring, incident detection, and notification. My customers are mostly medium-sized enterprises ranging from engineering companies, mining companies, independent schools, and…

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Asim Naeem

Principal IT Security & Compliance at IBEX Holdings Ltd

Providing comprehensive insight into alerts while working towards AI enhancement

I definitely recommend Rapid7 InsightIDR. It is becoming better, with improvements being continuously made to the product. Right now, I do not have any advice about Rapid7 for other users because every organization or user has different criteria or multiple use cases, so I refrain from commenting on that. I rate the overall solution seven out of ten.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"Technical support is helpful."

"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."

"FortiSIEM helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."

"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."

"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."

"We have many application systems, and I can set up Fortinet FortiSIEM for users to monitor their systems."

"The solution is very stable. It's run for years without the need to do anything except, add new patches when they are available, which are always a good idea to install."

"It gives us the opportunity to generate notifications based upon rules that get triggered, and the rules could be specific to PCI, HIPAA, GIBA, NIST, and so forth."

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"InsightIDR has allowed us to find potential security issues that we did not know existed, and get remediation quickly."

"The solution's initial setup is easy."

"The technical support is a solid 10 out of 10 as they take the time to answer any questions or problems which may arise in a reasonable time frame."

"During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an application belongs to a known ransomware group. The system rates the threat, offering a clear detection ratio, such as 97 out of 100. It not only identifies threats but also illustrates the associated behaviors, helping us understand the potential risk to a particular endpoint."

"The UI is very good."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR integrates well with other solutions. It's also easy to configure because Rapid7 InsightIDR has a lot of instructions posted on their website that customers can follow if they need to get the source log."

"I have seen that Rapid7 InsightIDR provides security to the networks and endpoints in the company."

"The product works well. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."

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Cons

"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having better integration and extensions. This would benefit by allowing us to give more rules."

"There could be more AI features included in the product."

"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."

"The solution's technical support didn't help our company a lot."

"The process of installing Fortinet FortiSIEM and the customization of the alerts take too long."

"I would like to see easier implementation in the future."

"The solution's interface could be modernized and improved."

"The deployment of the platform took some time to set up and configure."

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"Currently, it lacks the functionalities provided by Rapid7's User Behavior Analytics (UBA)."

"They should add more configuration and security features to it."

"The interface for doing investigation needs to be enhanced with minor improvements that would make it more useful."

"There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"I would like to see more development in InsightIDR towards building their SIEM solution and converting it to XDR."

"There is a future in AI with Rapid7, however, it is not fully operated. There are certain limitations with Rapid7 that I am working on."

"The integration capabilities of the solution have certain shortcomings where improvements are required."

"Sometimes, it is hard to get the right queries to use. Currently, the tool lacks a pre-made set of queries."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight out of ten. Compared with Splunk or Oracle, Fortinet is cheap."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM is a lot less when compared to other solutions."

"Fortinet's products are not expensive, it is less than the competition."

"The solution is available for both, perpetual and subscription licenses."

"There are additional features that cost more than the standard licensing fees."

"Its price can be better. We are Fortinet partners, so we can get discounts, but its price can be an issue at the beginning for others. There is a licensing scheme for every case. There are three licensing schemes that we can choose from."

"Pricing is acceptable for more than 90% of our customers, as they normally get discounts."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

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"Licensing is by endpoint and amount of retention time (at least ours is). Default retention was one year, but we are able to push the retention further if needed. There's also a provide-your-own-S3 option for longer retention if you don't want to pay for the additional retention years in your Rapid7 agreement."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR is a cheaply priced product. On a scale of one to ten, where one is very expensive, and ten is very cheap, I rate the product's price at seven or eight."

"I rate Rapid7 InsightIDR's price a four on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."

"It is a reasonably priced solution."

"The team is very willing to work with companies. My suggestion is to call the Rapid7 sales department and see how they can help."

"It is more reasonably priced than other vendors."

"The pricing of the solution depends on the user. But there is a yearly licensing cost."

"Rapid7 InsightIDR's pricing is reasonable but we have challenges with the Minimum Order Quantity. It is not reasonable for customers who have less than one hundred devices. If they can reduce Minimum Order Quantity, it is good. You have to pay around 5000-6000 dollars per year for the product. The pricing includes maintenance and support costs."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

Comms Service Provider

Government

Computer Software Company

14%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	34
Midsize Enterprise	21
Large Enterprise	23

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	20
Midsize Enterprise	5
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiSIEM?

I am not familiar with the price and cost of Fortinet FortiSIEM. I cannot tell you if it is high, expensive, or low. However, I can say that it is cost-effective as it provides everything needed.

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What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Regarding Fortinet FortiSIEM, I cannot identify any specific areas for improvement because I can find everything I need. For the time being, I cannot find a real point for improvement. Everything i...

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What SOC product do you recommend?

For tools I’d recommend: -SIEM- LogRhythm -SOAR- Palo Alto XSOAR Doing commercial w/o both (or at least an XDR) is asking to miss details that are critical, and ending up a statistic. Also, rememb...

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What do you like most about Rapid7 InsightIDR?

During simulations or demonstrations, the tool generates alerts, providing details such as the specific application, its origin, and potential threats. For instance, it can identify if an applicati...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Rapid7 InsightIDR?

The product pricing is very cheap.

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

InsightIDR

Overview

FortiSIEM (formerly AccelOps 4) provides an actionable security intelligence platform to monitor security, performance and compliance through a single pane of glass.

Companies around the world use FortiSIEM for the following use cases:

Threat management and intelligence that provide situational awareness and anomaly detection
Alleviating compliance mandate concerns for PCI, HIPAA and SOX
Managing “alert overload”
Handling the “too many tools” reporting issue
Addressing the MSPs/MSSPs pain of meeting service level agreements

Fortinet

Parsing hundreds of trivial alerts. Managing a mountain of data. Manually forwarding info from your endpoints. Forget that. InsightIDR instantly arms you with the insight you need to make better decisions across the incident detection and response lifecycle, faster.

Rapid7

Sample Customers

FortiSIEM has hundreds of customers worldwide in markets including managed services, technology, financial services, healthcare, and government. Customers include Aruba Networks, Compushare, Port of San Diego, Cleveland Indians, Infoblox, Healthways, and Referentia.

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