Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Statseeker comparison

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

"We have found the most important features in Fortinet FortiSIEM to be the correlation, file utility check, latest file, and hash changes. These features are important for us."

"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."

"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."

"It works well with medium to large-scale enterprises."

"The best features Fortinet FortiSIEM offers are reliability and scalability, which have helped me in my work, especially because the license for Fortinet FortiSIEM is excellent from a cost perspective, and we can add more collectors as we expand."

"The most valuable features of the solution is its integration with other technologies, especially its ability to collect logs from Cisco and Aruba devices along with Fortinet products."

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

"This solution helps in terms of troubleshooting, and you can do capacity planning with it."

"The most important for us is how fast this solution is, as well as the granularity that you can get to, such as per-minute statistics."

"The monitoring provided by this solution helps us to track down and solve issues."

"It catches frequent flapping of the network and provides detailed reports of outages."

"If somebody is complaining about slow networking then this solution allows us to see various ports to find out whether they are being overloaded."

"Being able to look back historically at the uptime and downtime is invaluable."

"We are a smaller enterprise, but we're watching approximately fifteen-thousand switchboards with no problem at all."

"We are now able to easily track where problems are with bandwidth and port errors, rather than having to do a lot of diagnostics."

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

"Not very good on non-API features, lacks that functionality."

"When our team tried configuring logs for Microsoft SQL, it did not work."

"The product does not have Security Orchestration and Automation Response, I would recommend adding this feature."

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

"The UI could improve in Fortinet FortiSIEM. Humans view the UI frequently for data and if it was more visually pleasing it would be beneficial."

"With FortiSIEM, the issue has to do with the ways we can generate a report. It's not as flexible compared to that with other SIEM tools, like Splunk."

"Patching is not great - we're not getting the support we'd expect."

"I would like to see the solution incorporate diagnosis of the workstation."

"Detailed data can be hard to extract in CSV form. Sometimes, being able to dump down raw data would be good so various time periods across a longer period could be analysed. At present, data can be presented within Statseeker, but there is lots of "white space" between data points."

"I would like to see more comprehensive reporting and alerting."

"The interface could be more user-friendly and it would be nice if there were enhanced options for reporting."

"We haven't seen an ROI."

"I would like to see a friendlier user interface in the administration tool."

"The user interface needs to be made more intuitive."

"Configuration management: In configuration management it would be helpful if it would backup configuration files (running and start-up configuration) for devices. (Not sure if this is already available in the latest version)."

"The price is competitive."

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is not an expensive solution."

"Please be cheaper and more simplified."

"The price of Fortinet FortiSIEM was reasonable compared to other solutions."

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

"They have a yearly subscription."

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

"Statseeker is pretty cheap."

"It's probably $5K a year for the license."

"We pay a yearly maintenance fee of approximately $40,000 USD."

"The licensing cost is yearly and it's $5,000 to $8,000, I think."

"It would definitely be a yearly licensing cost, but I don't know what it is."

"When it came to selecting this solution, it came down to cost."

"One thing that needs improvement is how it's licensed. I understand historically the company licensed it off a same charge for everyone. I understand the company needs to make money, but how they introduced the tiered licensing model, and then multiple layers of licensing was a bit of an issue. So, on the whole, coming up with a licensing model that isn't confusing and complicated and is easy to understand would be one way to improve the product. They have told me lately that they're changing how they license stuff, but they haven't made that - as I understand it - in their marketing material public knowledge as of yet. I would say that at the moment it's a bit convoluted. It's confusing. Some of their basic licensing model is a bit of a ripoff. If you go over five or ten support calls in the basic licensing model they start charging you for support calls. I think that's a bit rich."

"We have permanent licenses so there's really no cost, other than ongoing maintenance. When I think about it, that's running us about $20,000 a year."