Fortinet FortiSIEM vs Statseeker comparison

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

"Fortinet FortiSIEM is highly scalable. I would rate its scalability nine out of ten."

"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."

"We find the solution to be stable."

"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."

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

"I like the various options, including the option for CMDB and the easier access to create rules, playbooks, or use cases. It's also easier to use for creating dashboards and reports."

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

"It also allows us to predict the capacity on WAN circuits, as well as other circuits, to help us plan for upgrading."

"This solution provides us with a quicker response in troubleshooting."

"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 most important feature is just the fact that it doesn't aggregate the information up, and I can look at detailed information going back quite a long time."

"Key features for us are custom reporting, 95th Percentile, and trend lines."

"The product simplifies monitoring by providing real-time alerts through a GUI dashboard, email and texts."

"Device grouping is very easy, and you can discover thousands of devices in a few minutes."

"The most valuable feature is the dashboard, where you have everything right there on the screen."

"The deployment of the platform took some time to set up and configure."

"We need to see incident reports about the event log, without events from the administrator or through human interaction."

"Performance could be enhanced, but I do not wish to elaborate on needed improvements."

"Network detection and response is a separate product."

"The dashboard needs to improve."

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

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

"FortiSIEM could be better integrated with other vendors."

"It could use more features on Netflow analyser, such as time series graphs and a single network export UDP port and UDP forwarding."

"With Statseeker I'd like to see some flow, i.e. what's tuning-up the network. The trend I like is managing the traffic load by going to the cloud."

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

"If it had more detailed NetFlow information then it would be far better."

"Maybe they could provide a little bit more flexibility on creating custom dashboards."

"More private MIB object support, such as WAN optimisation performance and wireless, would be helpful."

"I would like to have soft alarming. If an inner-base all of a sudden triggers a threshold, we have to rely on a lot of other tools and then we go into Statseeker to verify it. If Statseeker would confirm it preemptively and trigger it into our network panel, that would be nice."

"I'd say the interface could improve a little bit. I find with new users, I tend to have to spend a bit of time walking them through how to use the interface. It could be a little more user friendly."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

"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."

"Compared to other solutions such as Zabbix and AKiPS, this solution is very well priced."

"We paid $5,000 to $10,000 a year in maintenance."

"This tool would probably be priced well if it had deeper NetFlow capabilities, but for our use case, in particular, we're only recovering ports after ninety days and looking at circuit congestion, it's pretty pricey."

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

"Pricing is reasonable but licensing should unlimited."

"We pay somewhere between $5,000 and $8,000 yearly in licensing fees."