FortiMonitor vs VMware Aria Operations for Applications comparison

Fortinet and VMware are both solutions in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category. Fortinet is ranked #27 with an average rating of 8.0, while VMware is ranked #42 with an average rating of 7.5. Fortinet holds a 0.6% mindshare in IM, compared to VMware’s 1.3% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Fortinet users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of VMware users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 9, 2024

VMware Aria Operations for Applications and FortiMonitor compete in the application monitoring category. VMware Aria Operations for Applications stands out for its comprehensive integration and analytics capabilities, whereas FortiMonitor offers superior security features and scalability.

Features: VMware Aria Operations for Applications includes advanced performance analytics, cloud-native integration, and automated insights to enhance operational efficiency. FortiMonitor offers detailed threat monitoring, robust network management, and security-focused features for compliance-ready organizations.

Room for Improvement: VMware could improve by enhancing its threat monitoring capabilities, reducing complexity in cloud integrations, and offering more straightforward setup processes. FortiMonitor might enhance its analytics features, additional cloud-native support, and offer more flexible customization options.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: FortiMonitor is known for its straightforward deployment and responsive customer support, speeding up onboarding. VMware Aria Operations is valued for seamless integration with existing infrastructures and extensive configuration options despite being less responsive in support.

Pricing and ROI: VMware Aria Operations for Applications provides flexible pricing models with competitive initial setup costs, offering a strong ROI through comprehensive analytics. FortiMonitor requires a higher initial investment but provides long-term value with enhanced security features.

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Categories and Ranking

FortiMonitor

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

27th

Average Rating

8.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Network Monitoring Software (31st), IT Alerting and Incident Management (11th), Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) (4th)

VMware Aria Operations for ...

Ranking in IT Infrastructure Monitoring

42nd

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) and Observability (40th), Container Monitoring (9th), Cloud Monitoring Software (32nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the IT Infrastructure Monitoring category, the mindshare of FortiMonitor is 0.6%, up from 0.6% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of VMware Aria Operations for Applications is 1.3%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

IT Infrastructure Monitoring

Featured Reviews

LinhNguyen7

IT Manager at PTECH

Jun 18, 2024

Can be deployed with great ease by users

I use the solution in my company as an alarm in the antivirus part I work on your website, so I don't use FortiMonitor. However, I may start using the product again in the future since my company might have customers who demand it. I think its useful feature is its alarms because if some hacker…

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Yves Sandfort

CEO & Majority Shareholder at Comdivision Consulting GmbH

Aug 1, 2022

Easy to deploy, worth the money, and helpful for uptime monitoring and performance insights

Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more. The other thing for us is that while it is great that we have all these standard metrics, it would be good if we can also more easily define standard metrics to be consumed for our own application. At the moment, for a lot of applications, we have to reinvent the wheel every time. If there was something so that we can build our own packaging of metrics, it would be helpful. In the future, we might be deploying our software to other customers as well. So, they should make it easier to redeploy that. There should be more customizable dashboards. The Wavefront dashboards are very technical and a more business-oriented dashboard design would definitely help.

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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

"FortiMonitor is really easy to use for monitoring the logs on FortiGate...It is a stable product."

"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is the overall ability to monitor the health of the environment."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is what the devices are used for. We have big backups for our Cradlepoint solutions, but FortiMonitor is a great routing device and we love working with them."

"The most valuable feature of FortiMonitor is user monitoring. We are able to see if the user is following the policy or not from their system. Additionally, the solution integrates well with Fortinet FortiGate and has centralized management."

"With FortiMonitor, you can get all the logs of the traffic information of the destination or the source."

"It provides the best firewall features."

"The tool continuously improves, adapting to support new vendors and technologies. Importantly, it automates the process, triggering alerts when devices require attention, and eliminating the need for manual intervention."

"FortiMonitor's dashboard is very informative and user-friendly."

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"The features I find most valuable is the querying and alerting capabilities."

"This solution allows me to have true visibility for any metrics when it comes to my cloud, and private."

"No issues with stability."

"The most valuable aspects of the solution are its ease of use and its ease of implementation."

"VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support."

"The solution is great for virtualization and preparing the infrastructure in Tanzu to test products. It's very fast and has good visibility."

"For us, the ease of deployment in combination with TMZ was the most important part because we don't have to manually deploy a complex monitoring solution. We can more or less do that with the click of a button, and we are not dependent on the developers to provide us with all the necessary features and functions to make that work. We can just deploy it on a workload cluster and monitor at least a good part of the workload. If we want to go into detail, we clearly need to make changes, but for a good part of application monitoring, it gives us good insights."

"Tanzu itself, integrated with multiple solutions, bestows support and security upon a container platform, especially when it comes to managing open-source container platforms such as Kubernetes."

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Cons

"Sometimes, during high CPU usage, we cannot access FortiMonitor and must refresh it."

"The solution's initial setup process is time-consuming."

"I think the current features are really good for me, nothing else comes to mind right now. Maybe some small improvements could be made in the customization and configuration part of the UI to make it easier or more intuitive. Customizable UI options, like we saw in the demo, could be helpful for everyone. But in our operational environment, having clear health status and system details is crucial for us system engineers. One feature I'd really like to see is a credential management system. It would help us keep track of who's logged in and how many times, which is important due to user restrictions. Sometimes, we need to manage logins more efficiently, like logging off other users to free up credentials. So having a feature like that would be really helpful."

"We use FortiToken, and it's a pain to use because you have to send things through your phone and then confirm by email. Only after this can you log in. It's dual-factor authentication. I wish that I could just log in or bring up a dashboard where I could log in from."

"FortiMonitor's monitoring could be much better. It should be like, in Palo Alto."

"FortiMonitor needs to improve its alert system."

"The tool's price in Vietnam is high, making it an area of concern where improvements can be made."

"FortiMonitor could improve by having compatibility with other operating systems, such as Linux."

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"The main problem I have is that the license cost is very high."

"The documentation and integration with Kubernetes could be improved."

"It could use a URL document server. Everything in the market is moving towards automation and everybody's looking for the single click operations as well relational data locality."

"I would like to see integration with Kubernetes cluster and APIs so that you can manage the entire stack."

"Its billing model is consumption-based. I understand the consumption-based model, but it is not necessarily easy to estimate and guess how many points or how much we are going to consume on a specific application up until we get to that point. So, for us, it would be helpful to have more insights or predictability into what we can expect from a cost perspective if we are starting to use specific features. This can potentially also drive our consumption a bit more."

"The initial setup should be easier and more seamless."

"They could make it more easy to plug-in data so that a nontechnical person will be able to use it, like accountants or finance people. That way they don't have to ask us."

"The implementation is a long process that should be improved."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"FortiMonitor's price is very high."

"There are additional costs needed for certain functionality, such as scalability."

"The price of FortiMonitor is approximately $200 annually for 225 users. The price is competitive."

"In terms of licensing, while it may not be the most expensive option on the market, it's relatively cost-effective. You can obtain licenses at a lower cost, with the calculation being straightforward. For example, if you onboard around 5,000 devices, you'll need approximately 5,000 licenses, as each device typically counts as one license."

"On a scale from one to ten, I rate the pricing a nine since it is a good solution that is available at a cheap price."

"The tool's pricing model in Vietnam is a bit high. I rate the product price as an eight out of ten."

"We have a large customer base for Fortinet, and the additional buying power got us really great discounts."

"Compared to other solutions, FortiMonitor is a very expensive solution."

"I don't have the details. In our case, there is a mixture in place. We have production usage, and we are also doing training for VMware. So, we also have a training instance. It is worth the money you would spend on it. That's because if you were to build all of this yourself by using some of the open source tools, then you would need a lot of time."

"I would rate the pricing as three out of five."

"The licensing costs are very high, particularly when you consider that we have to purchase a level 1 license for every integration, such as the load balancer, HAProxy, and the MSSP. And if you want to use vSAN, that's another license. Then, of course, Tanzu Observability has its own separate license."

"Different locations require different setups. In your terms, around 300 to around 400K USD."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

27%

Manufacturing Company

Construction Company

Retailer

Financial Services Firm

18%

Computer Software Company

16%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

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Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What is the best network monitoring software for large enterprises?

I have a clear bias because I work for Panopta. We aren't a fit for everyone, but I can confirm that Panopta is a lot less work to stand up and maintain. It's also a lot easier to use and onboard n...

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What do you like most about FortiMonitor?

In FortiMonitor, we're linked up with our Netgear, CactusServer, and NOC. It's really valuable because everything's migrating to one dashboard for us system engineers. We can keep an eye on traffic...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for FortiMonitor?

The tool's pricing model in Vietnam is a bit high. I rate the product price as an eight out of ten.

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What do you like most about VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

VMware comes with a support team, and if you have trouble, you can easily create a ticket, and VMware will help you. Therefore, the best aspect is the support.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

I would rate the pricing as three out of five.

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What needs improvement with VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront?

It's hard to set up Tanzu clusters. It's hard to do a POC. Once you set up a customer's environment, you easily see the problems. The initial setup should be easier and more seamless.

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Also Known As

Panopta

Tanzu Observability, Wavefront, Wavefront by VMware, VMware Tanzu Observability

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Overview

FortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted.

VMware Tanzu Observability by Wavefront is a powerful tool for monitoring and analyzing the performance and availability of applications and infrastructure in real-time.

With its comprehensive monitoring capabilities, visualizing and analyzing data becomes effortless. The real-time alerting system ensures timely issue resolution, while scalability and a user-friendly interface provide a seamless experience for smooth operations.

Sample Customers

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1. Atlassian 2. Cisco 3. Databricks 4. DigitalOcean 5. Equinix 6. Fidelity Investments 7. Google 8. Hewlett Packard Enterprise 9. Honeywell 10. IBM 11. Intel 12. JetBlue Airways 13. LinkedIn 14. Lyft 15. Mastercard 16. Microsoft 17. MongoDB 18. Netflix 19. Nvidia 20. Oracle 21. PayPal 22. Pinterest 23. Qualcomm 24. Red Hat 25. Salesforce 26. SAP 27. Spotify 28. Square 29. TMobile 30. Twitter 31. Uber 32. VMware

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