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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs Splunk Cloud Platform comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

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

Customer Service

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3.5
Splunk Cloud Platform's customer support gets mixed reviews, with premium users satisfied but many others frustrated by slow responses.
 

Room For Improvement

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3.5
Splunk Cloud Platform users face high costs, limited customization, performance issues, inadequate support, complex UI, and incomplete features.
 

Scalability Issues

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Splunk Cloud Platform is scalable and flexible but can be costly; suitable for various organization sizes with easy resource expansion.
 

Setup Cost

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Splunk Cloud Platform offers extensive features but is expensive with complex, non-transparent pricing, posing budgeting challenges for smaller businesses.
 

Stability Issues

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Splunk Cloud Platform is highly stable with minimal issues, quick resolutions, and high reliability, though customizations occasionally take time.
 

Valuable Features

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Splunk Cloud Platform offers customizable dashboards, quick setup, flexible log management, integration capabilities, real-time reporting, and requires no maintenance.
 

Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiAnalyzer
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.5
Number of Reviews
89
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 3.7% compared to last year.
Splunk Cloud Platform, on the other hand, focuses on Data Visualization, holds 0.4% 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.
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Computer Software Company
18%
Government
8%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Manufacturing Company
7%
Computer Software Company
26%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Educational Organization
6%
University
6%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
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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Sample Customers

General Directorate of Information Technology
Mindtouch
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