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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Executive Summary
 

Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
90
Ranking in other categories
Log Management (8th)
Splunk Cloud Platform
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
4.4
Number of Reviews
56
Ranking in other categories
Data Visualization (3rd), IT Alerting and Incident Management (3rd)
 

Mindshare comparison

While both are Systems Management solutions, they serve different purposes. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is designed for Log Management and holds a mindshare of 2.4%, down 3.5% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 0.5% mindshare, up 0.3% since last year.
Log Management
Data Visualization
 

Featured Reviews

Kiarash Heydari - PeerSpot reviewer
We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic
The solution has very heavy features. Similar to when we get an app, usually, it's less than what we want. When we send all our logs over to the analyzer, it almost crashed on the first try. We must first get our logs tuned up and then set up the Fortinet FortiAnalyzer or it will crash. This is very complicated and heavy work for such a simple task, and it's a big issue for that app. The setup of the solution can be improved because it is currently complex. The cost of the solution is high and can be improved.
Mark Furman - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers real-time threat detection by continuously analyzing incoming logs and correlations
The Splunk Cloud Platform has improved our observability. We can see a lot more information both good and bad, but at least we have the information. It is important that Splunk Cloud Platform has visibility into our cloud-native environments. It comes to observability. And with the visibility, we're able to link, especially with our cloud environment, with Azure the correlations for threat reporting, correlations for account breaches, and correlations for compromised data ex-filtration that's going in and out. Splunk Cloud Platform has improved our mean time to resolution. It stepped down our investigation times. An investigation that used to take ten minutes is now down to five or six minutes per incident. It offers real-time threat detection by continuously analyzing incoming logs and correlations. These trigger pre-defined alerts, and any suspicious activity will be reported within five or six minutes. Splunk Cloud has saved costs through time savings. I can focus that time on other tasks improving productivity. We saw time to value within the first month of implementing the Splunk Cloud Platform. Splunk Unified Platform helps consolidate networking, security, and IT observability tools. We're primarily focusing on the security area and building out the correlations. We haven't moved to the infrastructure side yet. That is something we have on our company roadmap.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is a complete package for managing our equipment."
"We use the solution for enterprise firewalls, URL filtering, and SD-WAN."
"The most valuable features are customizing reports, and the ability to drill down to display critical information in real-time."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is reporting."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"The most valuable features of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer are the dashboards and supporting services."
"The program is stable and it gives me great visibility."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to create a customized dashboard."
"Not having to manage Splunk Cloud's infrastructure is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the SPL because without it we wouldn't be able to correlate and build our use cases and manage what we have for our data inside Splunk."
"In my organization, Splunk Cloud Platform has improved the issue revolving around transactions."
"It's made searching for data easier. Users like it. We're still in the migration process, but overall, it's a lot easier to use."
"I have done health checks several times now, and those have been very valuable in getting more information about what is going on in my platform. There are also recommendations on what is going on in my environment."
"It is a stable product."
"Splunk Cloud has helped us to be able to focus on getting more information out of our data."
"For my purposes, I like the ability to aggregate lots of data from different sources. I like being able to report for management and being able to get alerts on thresholds being out of sync."
 

Cons

"The solution could embed monitoring."
"Fortinet has a new bug every month, which needs to be improved."
"When it comes to pushing logs to a SIEM, most of the time we have some issues when it comes to filtering."
"From my point of view, at this time, the solution isn't lacking any features or functionalities."
"The solution could improve by allowing the ability to search logs in integrated solutions."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"It's possible that they could add some advanced analytics and some proactive controls for logging analytics. That will help a lot."
"The solution can improve the incident response function to provide more detailed information on where the incident is originating."
"Since I work on data collection from external sources and send them into Splunk, I miss its ability to collect that data through REST API applications."
"From an enterprise standpoint, we are more limited in terms of what data we can export and how we can present it."
"They can offer more self-service capability to their customers. Currently, most of the things happen behind the Splunk Cloud Platform. As a customer, I do not have an opportunity to see my platform. If they can offer more self-service to see the health of my endpoints and stack, it would be appreciated."
"The administration could use improvement. We have to rely on support more often than we're used to."
"The support from the Splunk team is generally good, but sometimes, there's a lack of coordination between our account reps and the hands-on technical people. This misalignment can lead to issues with getting what we need done and what is happening."
"First-time users may struggle with the user interface. When I first used Splunk, I entered my username and password. After that, we get a dashboard on the left side with apps. At the top, you can click the gear icon to view the settings. Within those settings, there's a distributed console option with several settings. It's a bit overwhelming for a beginner. The user knows what they want and can search for it in the search bar. If I see several apps, my first instinct is to scroll down to find the app, or perhaps you will find that search and report. That bugged me when I was learning."
"Splunk should offer various options for real-time monitoring."
"The only disadvantage of Splunk Cloud compared to Splunk Enterprise Security is that you only have two options for long-term storage: AWS S3 Buckets and GCP."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is very expensive."
"In the local market sometimes people are being charged more than other solutions. Although the market is competitive, legitimate suppliers do not receive a large enough discount to pass onto the customers."
"I believe that these devices were procured with a five-year maintenance and support license up front. I work at a university, so the vendor provides a considerable higher ed discount."
"The company's choice to utilize Fortinet FortiAnalyzer was based on the overall security strategy and compatibility with existing solutions. It was deemed the best fit as it provided a centralized point of visibility for all of their security solution, including Fortinet FortiGate firewall, FortiClient, Forti EMS, and FortiAP. The company conducted a thorough evaluation of various solutions in the market but found that none of them could fully integrate and manage all their solutions as effectively as Fortinet FortiAnalyzer."
"There is a license needed to use this solution."
"I rate the product's price a six on a scale of one to ten, where one is cheap, and ten is expensive."
"It is expensive for small business customers. It is only available for customers with a high number of firewalls to manage or to report. If a customer has only five boxes of FortiGate, the price of FortiAnalyzer can be more than the five boxes. So, we can't easily put this solution for small business customers."
"t varies depending on your needs. However, after-sales support is expensive."
"The lack of transparency around the SVC licensing makes it difficult to explain the costs to our clients."
"Splunk Cloud Platform fell within our budget so we pulled the trigger and implemented it."
"The certifications are costly."
"Splunk Cloud Platform's pricing is a little on the higher end."
"The price is something that people complain about."
"As far as the pricing goes, it was what was expected. It is a premium product. There were no surprises there."
"We were on ingest. We were on-prem, and when we switched to the cloud, we went to an SVC model, and that has been a huge help. We are now able to ingest more data than before."
"The price for Splunk Cloud Platform is the same as our maintenance costs for Splunk Enterprise on-premises."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
27%
Financial Services Firm
13%
University
7%
Educational Organization
5%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
 

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiAnalyzer?
The reporting features, which offer customization, real-time insights, and compliance support, are particularly noteworthy aspects.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Fortinet FortiAnalyzer?
Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is quite an expensive tool. On a scale from one to ten, where one is cheap and ten is expensive, I rate the solution's pricing an eight out of ten.
What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiAnalyzer?
Fortinet has a new bug every month, which needs to be improved.
What do you like most about Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk has sped up our response and reduced the time we spend manually monitoring any logs for ticketing tools or servers. It saves us around two hours daily.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Splunk Cloud Platform?
Splunk Cloud is affordable, depending on your license. I don't know how much it costs exactly, but my colleague said it depends on your licensing and which features you use.
What needs improvement with Splunk Cloud Platform?
First-time users may struggle with the user interface. When I first used Splunk, I entered my username and password. After that, we get a dashboard on the left side with apps. At the top, you can c...
 

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General Directorate of Information Technology
Mindtouch
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