We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiSIEM and Pandora FMS based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The primary valuable feature is that it has replaced a whole lot of other products with one platform."
"The ability to write my own parsers for the devices that are not supported by Fortinet is the most valuable feature."
"The most valuable feature of Fortinet FortiSIEM is the correlation of many events."
"The solution is easy to use and user-friendly."
"The CMDB and the device discovery features are most valuable."
"It's a very nice solution to work with."
"FortiSIEM sends an email or SMS notifications to admins when there are significant incidents. It's a highly efficient way of responding to incidents."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM is easy to use."
"It allows me to quickly see the status of all of my printers, switches, computers, and virtual machines to determine if any system has fallen."
"The network monitoring and configuration within this solution is very good."
"Pandora FMS provides us with a general report (graphical) about all of the connected devices, which helps with planning new stations and tracking them."
"Thanks to its flexibility, I have been able to adapt the tool to our servers and find out quickly how their console works."
"This product has allowed us to identify and correct certain issues that were affecting our solution."
"The most valuable feature is that it is an all-in-one monitoring system."
"The solution has good dashboards and graphics."
"I like this solution a lot because it has a very large Hispanic community and the platform looks very friendly."
"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."
"The product does not have Security Orchestration and Automation Response, I would recommend adding this feature."
"The backup and recovery process for this solution needs improvement."
"Creating parsers to try make unknown events or currently unsupported devices produce meaningful information is extremely cumbersome."
"I would like to see more integration with other platforms."
"If there is a configuration on the wrong side of the network or there are changes that result in harm to our IT infrastructure, the solution should immediately fix it."
"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."
"Fortinet FortiSIEM could improve by having better integration and extensions. This would benefit by allowing us to give more rules."
"I find that this software is resource heavy, and demands a lot of processing capacity."
"The product lacks APIs for integration with other systems."
"A nice feature in the next release would be an automation module to run workflow actions."
"Pandora could deliver better analytics out of the box. You can work around these limitations with the help of other tools like Grafana. The shortcomings are mostly on the graphical side. The built-in report generators are a bit limited in some areas."
"It would be useful if Pandora FMS included an ISO image (or «software appliance») for each big company that leases virtual private machines (VPS), just like in AWS."
"I would like for the solution to be faster and have a better tolerance between parallel servers for Pandora and Pest Control."
"This solution requires proper training to get 100% out of it."
"Third-party integration should be improved for some commonly used products."
Fortinet FortiSIEM is ranked 10th in Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) with 65 reviews while Pandora FMS is ranked 28th in Network Monitoring Software with 22 reviews. Fortinet FortiSIEM is rated 7.6, while Pandora FMS is rated 9.2. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiSIEM writes "It's cheaper than other solutions with the same features but lacks integration with many third-party vendors". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Pandora FMS writes "The open architecture is easy to extend and enhance". Fortinet FortiSIEM is most compared with IBM Security QRadar, Splunk Enterprise Security, Wazuh, Microsoft Sentinel and LogRhythm SIEM, whereas Pandora FMS is most compared with Zabbix, Wazuh, PRTG Network Monitor, Nagios XI and Centreon. See our Fortinet FortiSIEM vs. Pandora FMS report.
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