We performed a comparison between Dynatrace and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer based on our users’ reviews in five categories. After reading all of the collected data, you can find our conclusion below.
Features: Dynatrace is highly regarded for its advanced AI engine and ability to automatically identify infrastructure. It also offers session replay and impressive visualization features. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer features exceptional log collection capabilities and customizable reporting. FortiAnalyzer enables users to centrally manage and analyze logs in real time. Some Dynatrace reviewers feel the learning curve is a little steep, and the documentation could be clearer. Users say that Dynatrace should offer more security options and improve integration with other tools. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer could simplify its reporting module and cloud storage capabilities.
Service and Support: Users generally found Dynatrace's customer service to be helpful and available, but some said that the response times and documentation have room for improvement. Some Fortinet customers were dissatisfied with support, but others said it was helpful and responsive.
Ease of Deployment: Dynatrace's setup is simple, efficient, and requires minimal technical configuration. It takes a few hours at most. FortiAnalyzer's initial setup is uncomplicated and manageable, typically taking approximately 30 minutes to a few hours. Some IT knowledge may be required.
Pricing: Users say Dynatrace is expensive. Some noted that the licensing model is complicated and not transparent. Some said they struggled to accurately predict the number of units needed. While FortiAnalyzer isn't the most expensive option, users say the pricing could be more competitive. FortiAnalyzer's cost depends on the storage requirements, and many customers consider it reasonable.
ROI: Dynatrace offers a solid ROI by decreasing downtime and saving customers money by consolidating tools. FortiAnalyzer helps customers by providing insight into network traffic and speeding up issue resolution.
"Our development group has started using Dynatrace extensively. It helps them find bottlenecks caused by code."
"Dynatrace is an extremely helpful APM solution in large, complex environments, whenever we need to have an integrated vision of our users, infrastructure, and applications."
"Most importantly the back-end components. Most of the back-end components that the application connects to; nobody knows how our application interacts with, for example, the DataPower Gateway. But AppMon really provides that information for us. So finding the gaps is the key here."
"The technical support has always been responsive."
"It is much easier to deploy, maintain, and delivery of high value insights, which almost immediately lowers the mean time to value and resolution of issues."
"This monitoring capability gives us the ability to measure the end-user experience."
"Metrics for CPU, memory, network, and disk. It provides extensive end-user, application, and infrastructure platform and technology support, including mobile, web browser, Java, .NET, PHP, servers, networks, and mainframe."
"The geographical view provides a nice visualization of performance on a map."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"The solution is quite easy to deploy."
"Storage in SSD helps in generating customized reports."
"We use the solution for enterprise firewalls, URL filtering, and SD-WAN."
"What I like the most is the monitoring system."
"Based on the logs of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer you can have it trigger actions. For example, if the log has a word or a sentence you specified it can send an alert or Syslog to an email address."
"The product can scale."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten since, in our company, we have never experienced the solution crashing or having any other issues."
"One thing that I would like to see is for companies like us - large AppMon customers that have a lot of presence in AppMon, a lot of manually configured things and customizations - would be something that would help us be able to make that journey more easily, the transition from to AppMon to Dynatrace."
"Documentation is slightly in error as far as directory set ups and guidance. We came to our own solution for distributing the disk loads."
"For AppMon, there is always room for improvement: charting, dashboarding, and user management."
"Bring the interface to the same level as OneAgent."
"The web-based UI needs to be improved."
"Getting the EM data, we have to open a browser. Generally, one of the asks from our clients or our engineering team is to change this."
"Every time we spin up an EC2 instance, we have to slap an agent on it and that is more work. So, if it could go agentless, that would be great."
"On the one hand we have Dynatrace, on the other hand, we have AppMon. We know Dynatrace is more powerful, with a lot of functions, but there are some core functions AppMon has that Dynatrace needs. Our main use is AppMon and we have not gone to Dynatrace because we don't have those specific functions that we need."
"FortiAnalyzer's price could be lower."
"Though FortiAnalyzer has improved over the last few versions, the user interface still has room for improvement. It's a bit dated-looking."
"The cloud version can be expensive. If the customers could get the resources to store the logs on-premises, it would be much better."
"Feature-wise, it is working very well for us. We don't need any additional features. However, its pricing can be improved. For small business customers, price is an important factor."
"I'm looking for something more efficient to analyze different foreign things. That's why FortiSIEM could compete with FortiAnalyzer."
"The technical support is not very reliable."
"It's possible that they could add some advanced analytics and some proactive controls for logging analytics. That will help a lot."
"It doesn't easily integrate with other solutions."
Dynatrace is ranked 4th in Log Management with 342 reviews while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 8th in Log Management with 86 reviews. Dynatrace is rated 8.8, while Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Dynatrace writes "AI identifies all the components of a response-time issue or failure, hugely benefiting our triage efforts". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". Dynatrace is most compared with Datadog, New Relic, AppDynamics, Splunk Enterprise Security and Azure Monitor, whereas Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Graylog, Grafana Loki and ManageEngine Log360. See our Dynatrace vs. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer report.
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