We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiAnalyzer and Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Log Management solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The traffic log information we receive from Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is valuable."
"The most valuable feature is the capability to gather logs and generate reports."
"Technical reports clearly identify system checks, locations and areas, how many times things escape, which firewall is affected, and source IDs."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is reporting."
"Overall we are satisfied with all the features the solution provides."
"The solution is very easy to deploy."
"It is a simple and solution."
"The scalability is good. It is also good in the cluster nodes. You can make multiple FortiAnalyzer clusters groups, and you can distribute the logs between these FortiAnalyzer nodes. In other words, you can expand the scale."
"The most valuable feature is the multi-cloud integration, where there is support for both GCP and AWS."
"The cloud login enables us to get our logs from the different platforms that we currently use."
"I like the monitoring feature."
"Offers a valuable logging transport feature"
"Our company has a corporate account for Google Cloud and so our systems and clusters integrate really well."
"We find the solution to be stable."
"It's easy to use."
"Google's technical support is very good."
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"When using this solution, you need a high-level expert to make it work as it should."
"The deployment of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is not complex, but integrating it with firewalls can take some time, depending on the number of firewalls."
"There are a lot of solutions on the market and Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is limited. It cannot be used across multiple vendors. They can improve by advancing their technology."
"The solution should include the ability to customize reports so that customers receive greater value and high level reporting."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to have more out-of-the-box connectors for integration with other solutions."
"The FortiAnalyzer is not scalable."
"Fortinet FortiAnalyzer needs to improve its pricing flexibility."
"The UI could use some improvement. It can be tough for a beginner to navigate because you don't know what to do even if you read the guide. I've talked to some users who said that they couldn't figure out what to do even after looking at the documentation."
"Lacking sufficient operations documentation."
"It could be even more automated."
"The product provides minimal metrics that are insufficient."
"It could be more stable."
"While we are satisfied with the overall performance, in certain cases we must add additional metrics and additional tools like Grafana and Dynatrace."
"It is difficult to estimate in advance how much something is going to cost."
"If I want to track any round-trip or breakdowns of my response times, I'm not able to get it. My request goes through various levels of the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and comes back to my client machine. Suppose that my request has taken 10 seconds overall, so if I want to break it down, to see where the delay is happening within my architecture, I am not able to find that out using Stackdriver."
"This solution could be improved if it offered the ability to analyze charts, such as a solution like Kibana."
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Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is ranked 7th in Log Management with 87 reviews while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is ranked 25th in Log Management with 10 reviews. Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is rated 8.0, while Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiAnalyzer writes "We can automate event-based handling solutions, is stable, and is great for heavy traffic". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) writes "Good logging and tracing but does need more profiling capabilities". Fortinet FortiAnalyzer is most compared with Wazuh, Splunk Enterprise Security, Grafana Loki, Graylog and Datadog, whereas Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) is most compared with AWS X-Ray, Datadog, Azure Monitor, New Relic and Amazon CloudWatch. See our Fortinet FortiAnalyzer vs. Google Cloud's operations suite (formerly Stackdriver) report.
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