We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiManager and Zabbix based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Cisco, Fortinet, HPE Aruba Networking and others in Network Management Applications."It makes management very easy."
"For the whole security fabric from Fortinet, with a simple click you can see if some workstations or services are affected by an attack. You can really easily quarantine it, check the solution, and fix it."
"The central management feature is the most valuable to me."
"The solution is very stable."
"There is something called zero-touch provisioning, where you can add a new device without any configuration. You just add it to FortiManager and then forget about it."
"Everybody is quite happy with the way that the graphical user interface works."
"The features are good."
"The setup is very simple."
"Zabbix has a roadmap and they are continuously and frequently adding new features."
"The initial setup, while not simple, is easier than other products."
"It's a very reliable platform and we've never had any issues regarding the scalability or the stability of Zabbix."
"The features I found most valuable are the user interface and a wide range of network devices that are easy to configure."
"The template system in Zabbix is very beneficial as it saves time in configuration."
"The performance and bandwidth are valuable features."
"Dashboard and the customization of the items and triggers are the most valuable features."
"Its overall flexibility is most valuable. When our customers have some custom applications that are not necessarily covered by the community or a standard monitoring tool, we use Zabbix to build our own modules with our own templates. This feature has been useful in using Zabbix for infrastructure and IT monitoring. It has also been useful for industrial equipment monitoring. Zabbix is very lightweight. It is efficient in terms of performance because it doesn't use a lot of resources."
"Troubleshooting for Fortinet products is more difficult than competing products like Cisco and Palo Alto."
"The scalability has room for improvement."
"The FortiManager is more complex and they can make it easier to use the VPN manager. All other features are okay. However, the VPN manager is more difficult and can cause some issues in the environment, if you do not have the experience to use it."
"You cannot integrate with other solutions."
"The solution could improve by having better integration with other solutions other than Fortinet."
"Fortinet is releasing quite a lot of new versions and I would say that most of the versions are not well tested before they're pushed out. Even the new versions sometimes are a bit buggy before it's all correct."
"Setting up FortiManager can be complex because it involves changes from other devices and a lot of configuration."
"Pricing-wise, it could always be less, even though it is less expensive than Palo Alto."
"Zabbix is powerful, but it is difficult to understand initially. There are many things that can be improved, but we might not be using Zabbix to its fullest extent. The software has more features than we need."
"They should open an SSH session from the web interface."
"Improvement is needed as per customer requirements."
"There are a lot of areas for improvement, specifically in the dashboards and reports functionalities."
"The networking monitor is not too easy to work with."
"The only improvement I would suggest, revolves around its AI and ML capabilities."
"Even though it’s such a powerful monitoring system, it would be more helpful if it had a flexible UI."
"In the next release, I'm hoping for features targeted towards larger users with more customizable options. Despite this, I think pre-canned reports that can be used straight out of the box would be beneficial rather than having to configure each report individually. Additionally, a deeper dive into software configurations on the machines would be useful, although I understand there may be challenges in implementing this due to scripting requirements. More documentation would also be appreciated."
Fortinet FortiManager is ranked 3rd in Network Management Applications with 61 reviews while Zabbix is ranked 1st in Network Monitoring Software with 101 reviews. Fortinet FortiManager is rated 8.0, while Zabbix is rated 8.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiManager writes "Easy to set up with good integration capabilities but we've had troubles when moving devices". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Zabbix writes "Allows any number of customizations but lacks functionality for finding root causes". Fortinet FortiManager is most compared with Fortinet FortiGate Cloud, Fortinet FortiOS, Cisco DNA Center, AlgoSec and Fortinet FortiWeb, whereas Zabbix is most compared with Centreon, Checkmk, Nagios Core, Amazon CloudWatch and SolarWinds NPM.
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