Fortinet FortiSIEM vs SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer comparison

"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 most valuable features of Fortinet FortiSIEM are the SD-WAN, Global LAN, and application controls."

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

"Our customer did not have security monitoring in the first place. With this solution, it provided security posture management and visibility about the security landscape and threats that they had."

"FortiSIEM provides a single PIN to monitor SOC and NOC. It's a nice tool for integration and monitoring. It provides multiple categories for monitoring based on security designations like low, medium, and high."

"The most valuable feature is auto-discovery. When you send logs from any device to port 514, it helps register those devices automatically."

"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."

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

"The initial setup was straightforward."

"The bandwidth indicates the utilization of the devices; if any issue occurs, it triggers an alert for me."

"So far, it is a very stable product."

"The monitoring is perfect, showing you the details for the utilization of resources and network bandwidth."

"It allows us to pinpoint which protocol is overloading the link."

"The solution helps manage networks."

"The software management tools are very useful for our customers."

"It doesn't cost too much."

"The graphs on the user interface could be improved as we often experience glitches."

"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."

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

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

"It's difficult to integrate unsupported devices with FortiSIEM compared to QRadar. It's easier to integrate and develop processes in QRadar. It's harder to develop a custom process in FortiSIEM."

"An improvement would be if FortiSIEM's licensing was based on the number of nodes rather than the EPS."

"The dashboards need to be improved. It gives you so much detail, but sometimes too much detail, especially to an executive, it's too much."

"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."

"The price of the solution is a bit high for our clients. They should consider adjusting their price model."

"The Atlas module that is used for building the network map is very bad."

"I would like to see better customization capabilities."

"Currently, it shows only the top ten applications or ports in use, while the remaining data appears as 'remaining traffic,' causing confusion."

"The tool itself is very complicated, so training is required to handle it effectively."

"It is very slow to pick the dynamics of the network."

"SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer could improve its flexibility and integration with AI to provide analytics beyond just showing up/down statuses and traffic volumes."

"Deployment needs improvement. The process is complicated, requiring attention to infrastructure settings and installation of components like the origin application server, platform, close storage, and policy agents."

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

"The price is competitive."

"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."

"They have a yearly subscription."

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

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

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

"We pay yearly, and we are happy with its price."

"The pricing is reasonable."

"While the pricing is fair, it could be better."

"The price of this solution is exceptional."

"I don't have information on the licensing cost for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer because it's bundled with another SolarWinds solution. My organization has seven different models and pays for the license yearly. My organization also had to deploy additional pollers, but the cost wasn't very expensive, though I can't give the exact numbers."

"SolarWinds' pricing structure is the primary reason why some customers opt for another solution such as ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer. In NTA, you are charged per port, meaning that if you have a 24-port switch you will be charged for 24 individual nodes. ManageEngine NetFlow Analyzer, on the other hand, charges per switch, such that if you add a switch, the entire switch will count as one single node."

"We have licenses for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer. In terms of pricing, its license is not that expensive versus other tools such as HP."

"The solution's licensing is high-priced."