Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Logz.io comparison

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 18, 2024

Fortinet FortiSIEM and Logz.io are both prominent in the security information and event management (SIEM) market. Despite FortiSIEM's strong security features, Logz.io appears to have the upper hand due to its overall features, ease of use, and customer satisfaction.

Features: Fortinet FortiSIEM offers extensive integration, advanced threat detection, and a wide range of security capabilities. Logz.io provides advanced logging, real-time monitoring, and extensive analytics capabilities.

Room for Improvement: Fortinet FortiSIEM users suggest improvements in performance, more intuitive system configuration, and better scalability. Logz.io users recommend enhanced data visualization tools, better scalability options, and improved integration features.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Fortinet FortiSIEM is noted for its complex deployment and requiring considerable time and expertise. Logz.io is praised for its straightforward onboarding process and higher customer satisfaction due to prompt and effective assistance.

Pricing and ROI: Fortinet FortiSIEM users find setup costs high but appreciate the long-term ROI. Logz.io users find the premium pricing justified by significant benefits and efficiency gains.

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Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Logz.io

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Categories and Ranking

Fortinet FortiSIEM

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

8th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.7

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Logz.io

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

24th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.1%, up from 3.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Logz.io is 0.3%, down from 0.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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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Derrick Brockel

Senior Manager of Operations at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is a consistent logging platform that provides excellent query mechanisms

We can query a lot of data points and build dashboards. The vendor is good at adjusting their models. Most companies want us to forecast our yearly use and pay it upfront on day one. With Logz.io, we commit to use 14 TB in a year. However, they measure us every month and give us a monthly bill. Depending on our monthly usage, we pay for 14 TB divided by 12 months or a little extra. It's a little bit more like AWS. Other solutions do not do it. They want their money upfront. We really like the dashboards. We have 36 sub-accounts. Each sub-account is an app, and we could put restrictions on that app. Previously, there were capacity restrictions on the sub-accounts. If we have a sub-account of 1 TB and use only 100 GB, we waste 900 GB that day. We could not share it between sub-accounts. Now, they provide an overhead volume. We do a reserve, and any sub-account could use anything over the reserve. It utilizes our footprint better.

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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

"FortiSIEM allows you to match IPs with threat intelligence feeds from sources like Kaspersky or Anomali, adding valuable context."

"Analytics. It can provide log information from the device. With log information, I can see if there is a threat"

"Both the collecting logs and duo correlation are valuable features for us."

"The interface is very easy to use. The connector in the core has FortiSIEM support from the vendor."

"The product is quite well-organized. The GUI makes it easy to navigate."

"FortiSIEM's log correlation is good."

"The product's initial setup phase was easy."

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

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"InsightOne is the main reason why we use LogMeIn. This is mostly because of log data that we are pushing tools and logs in general."

"We use the tool to track the dev and production environment."

"It is massively useful and great for testing. We can just go, find logs, and attach them easily. It has a very quick lookup. Whereas, before we would have to go, dig around, and find the server that the logs were connected to, then go to the server, download the log, and attach it. Now, we can just go straight to this solution, type in the log ID and server ID, and obtain the information that we want."

"The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable."

"The tool is simple to setup where it is just plug and play. The tool is reliable and we never had any performance issues."

"The other nice thing about Logz.io is their team. When it comes to onboarding, their support is incredibly proactive. They bring the brand experience from a customer services perspective because their team is always there to help you refine filters and tweak dashboards. That is really a useful thing to have. Their engagement is really supportive."

"We use the product for log collection and monitoring."

"The visualizations in Kibana are the most valuable feature. It's much more convenient to have a visualization of logs. We can see status really clearly and very fast, with just a couple of clicks."

Cons

"Improvements include making it easier for users to create their normalizers. Fortinet FortiSIEM uses XML for normalizing and parsing, which can be tedious and time-consuming. A simpler way of using regex could be helpful."

"When an alert triggers in Fortinet FortiSIEM, the layout or format can feel limited"

"The challenge I face with Fortinet FortiSIEM is the lack of support."

"Customer support service could be better."

"The biggest thing that could be better is a quicker response to support cases."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve to extend to several locations or sites."

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

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"The solution needs to expand its access control and make it accessible through API."

"The solution needs to improve its data retention. It should be greater than seven days. The product needs to improve its documentation as well."

"The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective."

"I would like granularity on alerting so we can get tentative alerts and major alerts, then break it down between the two."

"I would like them to improve how they manage releases. Some of our integrations integrate specifically with set versions. Logz.io occasionally releases an update that might break that integration. On one occasion, we found out a little bit too late, then we had to roll it back."

"Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle."

"When it comes to reducing our troubleshooting time, it depends. When there are no bugs in Logz.io, it reduces troubleshooting by 5 to 10 percent. When there are bugs, it increases our troubleshooting time by 200 percent or more."

"The price can be cheaper and they should have better monitoring."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Please be cheaper and more simplified."

"This is probably more on the lower cost end of the spectrum compared to competing products. Fortinet's license model is based on events per second, which makes sense, but that's not typical. It makes it very hard to calculate what your costs are going to be as you scale the platform because some log sources, such as firewall logs, are very noisy, and there are lots and lots of events per second, but some of them are not. So, it becomes a bit of a science experiment trying to guess what your costs are going to be as you scale the solution. This is where other competing products perhaps have a more straightforward license model."

"There is a need to make yearly payments towards the licensing charges attached to the product. The free version license of the product is available for two months."

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

"Pricing is determined based on the customer's budget."

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

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is cheaper compared to other products."

"We pay for a license for FortiSIEM. We pay for the license and renewal."

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"The product is a little expensive."

"You pay for what you need, and that is a good model. They are also quite happy to talk to you about your uses and your use case. They will even go as far as suggesting things that you don't need to do in order to save you money. At one point, I was quite surprised at how cheap it could be if we wanted it to be or how much they would help us manage our costs."

"At the time it was set up, we thought Logz.io was very reasonable for what we were getting in terms of how much time and hosting costs it was saving us, because you don't have to run the servers for it anymore."

"The product's pricing is cheaper than other solutions."

"The tool is an open source product."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

16%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Comms Service Provider

Computer Software Company

19%

Financial Services Firm

12%

Comms Service Provider

12%

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Fortinet FortiSIEM?

Fortinet FortiSIEM needs to provide better API integrations to users.

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

As a service, the cost is reasonable and affordable with scalable pricing based on the number of monitored devices. However, setting it up for oneself as an enterprise-licensed product can be quite...

What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products. Improving software stability and reducing bugs will make it a ...

What do you like most about Logz.io?

The query mechanism for response codes and application health is valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Logz.io?

The product is a little expensive. We're pushing 17 TB. It costs us one and a half million dollars a year.

What needs improvement with Logz.io?

Capacity planning could be a little bit of a struggle. The product must add some AI capabilities to learn from previous behaviors. Instead of us setting thresholds, the tool should learn the thresh...

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

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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

Logz.io is a leading cloud-native observability platform that enables engineers to use the best open source tools in the market without the complexity of operating, managing, and scaling them. Logz.io offers four products: Log Management built on ELK, Infrastructure Monitoring based on Prometheus, Distributed Tracing based on Jaeger, and an ELK-based Cloud SIEM. These are offered as fully managed, integrated cloud services designed to help engineers monitor, troubleshoot and secure their distributed cloud workloads more effectively. Engineering driven companies like Siemens, Unity and ZipRecruiter use Logz.io to simplify monitoring and security workflows, increasing developer productivity, reducing time to resolve issues, and increasing the performance and security of their mission-critical applications.

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.

Dish Network, The Economist, Forbes, Holler, Kenshoo, OneSpan, Siemens, Sisense, Unity, ZipRecruiter

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