TrustRadius: an HG Insights company

Save this comparison

Save this comparison

Add Product

Recommended Comparisons

    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ControlUp

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AControlUp, from the company of the same name headquartered in San Francisco, offers an end user experience monitoring focuses on being able to easily find the root cause of IT issues, remediate directly from its UI vs. having to rely on several tools, and strategically analyze historical resources, usage, and issues data.N/A

    FortiMonitor

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AFortiMonitor is a comprehensive, SaaS-based digital experience monitoring (DEM) platform that helps organizations modernize their performance-monitoring tools. It provides visibility into endpoint application performance and digital experience—no matter where the user resides or where the application is hosted. It is based on Panopta, which was acquired by Fortinet in late 2020.N/A
    Pricing
    ControlUpFortiMonitor
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ControlUpFortiMonitor
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Our simple, usage-based pricing model is ideal whether you have five servers, or 500 hundred. You’ll be charged monthly per the number of instances monitored, and any additional features you’re using, such as CounterMeasures and synthetic checks. Standard Instances - $6/Instance Network Devices - $9/Device Containers - $2/Container
    More Pricing Information
    Best Alternatives
    ControlUpFortiMonitor
    Small Businesses
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Medium-sized Companies
    Catchpoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Catchpoint
    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Nexthink
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Nexthink
    Score7.3 out of 10
    All AlternativesView all alternativesView all alternatives
    User Ratings
    ControlUpFortiMonitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (3 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ControlUpFortiMonitor
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ControlUp
    An environment where visibility of general performance metrics isn't currently done or is done with a system that is difficult to use (which was our case). An environment where resource allocation decisions need to be made (e.g. how much RAM and CPU to allocate to VM pools). An environment where a troubleshooting tool is needed (e.g. to answer the question, "Why is this person experiencing poor performance right now?")
    Read full review
    Fortinet
    It is great for monitoring internet connections.
    The agent installed on Windows works efficiently and takes up little resources. The method of settling costs is not very clear.
    There should also be a table with the current list of costs visible.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Pros
    ControlUp
    • The triggers are very flexible and can be configured to alert on things from events in sessions to hardware failures. Script actions are what they sound like. They are scripts that can be created and run on demand or tied to a trigger. One example is that if a hard drive is low on space we have a script to clean up certain things on the drive.
    • Script actions are supported by the ControlUp community. Community members can submit scripts that are reviewed by ControlUp and approved. This means more script are added over time.
    • ControlUp support and sales support has been great. Our sales engineer is always willing to jump on and help us with configuration issues and standard support is quick to respond and are good at resolving issues.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Fortinet
    • Monitoring from several locations
    • Fast notification
    • Push notifications, SMS and calling
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Cons
    ControlUp
    • It seems that there is a gradual transition occurring from one interface (a local program) to another (Web). This creates confusion at times.
    • ScoutBees module has a problem with our version of Horizon, so we can't do a login test
    • The local program for ControlUp uses a lot of resources
    • The training session focus on very large environments, which we aren't. Might be good to offer SMB sessions separately.
    Read full review
    Fortinet
    • Simplifying the interface
    • Simplification of the process, e.g. notifications to Slack
    • Dark mode for panel and dashboard
    • Push notification - should contain more detailed information
    • A nicer looking dashboard
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Alternatives Considered
    ControlUp
    I feel all these products are good and have their strengths but for me it came down to two categories. How easy is it to find issues and cost. It seemed to me that the easiest to use is ControlUp and eG. Price broke down to ControlUp and SysTrack being lower than Goliath and eG.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Fortinet
    Panopta management from the cloud (remote panel).
    Easy work on installation.
    To monitor servers, it is enough for the server to have contact only with the Internet.

    Multiple channels for sending notifications.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Return on Investment
    ControlUp
    • its licensing cost is a bit on high
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Fortinet
    • Provides high availability of services
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    ScreenShots

    FortiMonitor Screenshots

    Screenshot of Customizable dashboards offer a wide variety of widgets so you can easily adjust them to your workflow and track the health and performance of your deployments.Screenshot of Automate diagnostics and remediation. Whether it’s running a complex synthetic test or automatically restarting a system so that it will come back online, leave those tasks to us while your team gets back to what matters.Screenshot of Incidents include metrics and meta-data so engineers can begin working on the incident as soon as they’ve received an alert.

Integrating your alerting and and incident management creates a seamless, easy-to-use experience.  

Engineers can quickly acknowledge alerts, both from Panopta and the mobile app, making it easy for their teammates to see which incidents still need to be addressed. 

With customizable alerting workflows, creating alert policies which suit your team is simple and intuitiveScreenshot of Alert Timelines automatically escalate incidents if they remain open.

Assign leads to incidents, making delegation and keeping team members in the loop easy.

By running diagnostics using CounterMeasures, teams can quickly determine whether an admin is necessary to resolve the issue
Review and approve CounterMeasures to enrich incidents with more context.Screenshot of Know which incidents are being worked on at-a-glance.

Engineers can easily escalate an incident if they need a senior team member to resolve the issue.

Integrates with popular communication and ticketing tools like Slack and JIRA.

Stay connected with your team using the mobile app, or take quick actions like acknowledging, scheduling maintenance, or approve a CounterMeasure so your team knows you’re on it.Screenshot of Incidents are enriched with diagnostics and metrics, and include streamlined views of all related events that make it easier to diagnose and resolve incidents.

Engineers are able to see the full context of an incident before logging into any systems.

CounterMeasures provide an automated way to diagnose and resolve incidents, allowing engineers to focus on more valuable activities.

Metrics and data from incidents can be elevated to the incident summary, providing an easy way for teams to reference what they’d done to fix similar problems in the past.