Fortinet FortiSIEM vs ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer comparison

Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer

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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

ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer

Ranking in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

35th

Average Rating

7.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Log Management (38th)

Mindshare comparison

As of December 2024, in the Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) category, the mindshare of Fortinet FortiSIEM is 3.2%, up from 3.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is 1.1%, down from 1.4% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Featured Reviews

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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Muhammad Jahangir

Manager devops at emergent

Feature rich, useful web log collection, but support could improve

We have a PCI DSS standard environment and a centralized login server. We are using ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer for all of the logins. We have the firewalls, such as Fortinet, and many other devices sending their logs through this solution The most valuable features of ManageEngine EventLog…

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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 helped us discover all the threats at the time that were attacking the IT services of the company. We now have multiple-level authentication."

"It's easy to manage. There's a web interface and a command line, depending on what the user is comfortable with. There's a large knowledge base available, and the support is timely."

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

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

"The most valuable feature is the ability to view all the network events on a single pane and find the point of contact or point of the incident."

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

"The most valuable feature is the anomaly-reporting alarms."

"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."

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"The log management has helped to improve my organization."

"It's one of the easiest products. It's very simple to use."

"ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is easy to gather reports to give to management. My supervisor has access to the solution and he enjoys the graphs."

"The tool's reports show activities."

"The initial setup is straightforward"

"The user interface is very good."

"The reporting features are noteworthy, as they provide templates that streamline the process of generating reports"

"The most valuable features of ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer are the number of capabilities, file integration monitoring, web server log collection, and alert configuration."

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Cons

"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having a signature update."

"The log collection and configuration management are not great."

"Does not have load-sharing or high-availability, and these are important things to implement. I can do the same things in another way, but not naturally having these features makes it complicated."

"The support of the product changed recently, and I don't think it's for the better. They should work to improve the support they offer to clients."

"The only drawback is the licensing model. It can get expensive if you want to integrate more solutions."

"Sometimes, if there are changes made by a user on a database server, it can be difficult to get that information on the fly. I would like to see a situation where once I specify a user with the database server I need, and with the changes they have performed on that, I don't need to continue my search pattern to drill down just to get the information."

"They need to integrate better with Cisco and Palo Alto."

"The performance can be improved. Sometimes it takes a long time to fetch data."

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"The solution is stable. However, there are limits. For example, we can do 2,500 Syslog events per second, but if we want to do more we have to install the distributor structure, and then we can expand how many events we can do. They could improve the stability."

"The scalability is limited."

"The first tier of customer service and support is not great."

"The customization of reports could be a lot easier. It is not difficult but it could be made easier."

"The solution should improve on its log capturing capabilities."

"Support could improve to make the solution better."

"What I'd like to see as an improvement to ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is for it to be more AI-driven. Having more automation would also make the solution better."

"I would like to see more detailed reports."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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

"The tool is really expensive. For what the tool does for our team, the price is fair."

"If one is cheap and ten is expensive. I rate the tool's price as an eight out of ten. Compared with Splunk or Oracle, Fortinet is cheap."

"The solution is available for both, perpetual and subscription licenses."

"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."

"Fortinet's products are not expensive, it is less than the competition."

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

"The price of the solution is expensive. The license is scalable. If there are 10 devices it is simple to license."

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"Licensing for ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is paid yearly."

"There is a yearly subscription for the solution."

"We paid for the license of the solution and the deployment. The price of ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is less expensive than other solutions."

"ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is a low-cost solution. It costs approximately $1,000 per month per server for a perpetual license."

"There is a license required for these solutions. The customer can choose the license type, such as an annual license purchase or a perpetual license. If the customer wants maintenance they will have to pay annually."

"ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer is expensive. Its licensing costs are annual."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

17%

Financial Services Firm

Government

Manufacturing Company

Computer Software Company

20%

Government

10%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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 ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer?

The reporting features are noteworthy, as they provide templates that streamline the process of generating reports

What needs improvement with ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer?

There's a lot to improve in terms of connectivity. Currently, we're utilizing it across various infrastructures and environments, including others' cloud. However, connecting it to our infrastructu...

What is your primary use case for ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer?

We use ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer to collect logs from all our IT assets, including servers and databases. We utilize these logs to detect triggers, alerts, or security incidents related to Del...

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Also Known As

FortiSIEM, AccelOps

EventLog Analyzer

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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

Your organizations IT infrastructure generate huge amount of logs every day and these machine generated logs have vital information that can provide powerful insights and network security intelligence into user behaviors, network anomalies, system downtime, policy violations, internal threats, regulatory compliance, etc. However, the task of analyzing these event logs and syslogs without automated log analyzer tools can be both time-consuming and painful if done manually.

EventLog Analyzer provides the most cost-effective Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software on the market. Using this Log Analyzer software, organizations can automate the entire process of managing terabytes of machine generated logs by collecting, analyzing, correlating, searching, reporting, and archiving from one central location. This event log analyzer software helps to monitor file integrity, conduct log forensics analysis, monitor privileged users and comply to different compliance regulatory bodies by intelligently analyzing your logs and instantly generating a variety of reports like user activity reports, historical trend reports, and more.

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.

Moody National Bank, EnCircle, Goldleaf Financial Solutions, Inc, IBM, Ernst & Young, Micro Linear, Silverbeck-Rymer Solicitors, Provincial Court of British Columbia, Eleventh Judicial Circuit of Florida, OGILVY & MATHER, E! Entertainment, Tribune-Review Publishing Co.

Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer