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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)

25th

Average Rating

8.2

Reviews Sentiment

7.5

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (20th)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2025, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.3%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Logz.io is 0.3%, down from 0.5% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

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HamedWasel

Senior Network Security Engineer at Orange

It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors

FortiSIEM needs to expand its integration with third-party vendors. I don't know if Forcepoint has been added, but there were limited resources for integrating Forcepoint solutions when we implemented FortiSIEM. It integrates well with other Fortinet products and solutions from established cybersecurity companies like Palo Alto but doesn't integrate with some of the newer vendors. I would also like to see FortiSIEM add more of the features available in FortiSOAR. You need to buy two separate solutions to get these features, but they should all be available in one product.

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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

"The tool's most valuable feature stems from the fact that I can see a complete analysis, like all the incidents that have happened, and it detects everything in real-time."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is easy to use."

"FortiSIEM is a great tool for making security processes transparent."

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard. CMDB database collects data from a lot of pre-configured devices."

"Real-time monitoring makes life quite easy for me."

"The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."

"Analytics is the most valuable feature. The business service summaries in the dashboards and the correlations for the SIEM are also valuable features."

"The most fascinating aspect of FortiSIEM is its integration with the MITRE ATT&CK framework."

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

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

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

Cons

"The stability of the product is an area of concern where improvements are required."

"Their technical support is horrible. By horrible, I mean a train wreck of a disaster that has fallen off a bridge and caught fire."

"The built-in APIs in Fortinet FortiSIEM are somewhat lacking and could be improved for better integration with external ITSM products."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is a little out of sight and needs more marketing efforts to be popular in the market."

"Our team tried configuring MS SQL database logs with Fortinet FortiSIEM, but it did not work for some time."

"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."

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

"Creating parsers to try make unknown events or currently unsupported devices produce meaningful information is extremely cumbersome."

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

"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."

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

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

"The product needs improvement from a filtering perspective."

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

"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."

Pricing and Cost Advice

"Manageable, however would be better as pay as you go versus CapEX."

"Please be cheaper and more simplified."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is very cost-efficient compared to other SIEM solutions."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

"FortiSIEM's licensing is based on EPS, and its pricing is competitive in the market."

"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."

"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."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM is a lot less when compared to other solutions."

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"The tool is an open source product."

"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."

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

"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 is a little expensive."

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Top Industries

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Computer Software Company

17%

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Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

14%

Healthcare Company

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?

Fortinet FortiSIEM is high-priced. Previously, its licensing model required separate licenses for devices, agents, and EPS, which was quite rigid. The revised model is subscription-based and more f...

What needs improvement with Fortinet FortiSIEM?

FortiSIEM is a bit resource-hungry, so work should be done on hardware resource utilization to consume less hardware. Another major problem is its licensing model, which initially required separate...

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

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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