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F5 Beacon vs. FortiMonitor

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
F5 Beacon
Score 9.7 out of 10
N/A
F5 Beacon an open source tool used to gain full visibility across an application landscape, obtain app insights and business intelligence, and make better-informed decisions. With the Beacon Insight Engine, users can leverage pre-built insights or create custom insights. Beacon also integrates with many types of deployments across hybrid and multi-cloud environments—and provides a set of app stats in a simple SaaS model.
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FortiMonitor
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
FortiMonitor 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
F5 BeaconFortiMonitor
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
F5 BeaconFortiMonitor
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
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
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Features
F5 BeaconFortiMonitor
Application Performance Management
Comparison of Application Performance Management features of Product A and Product B
F5 Beacon
9.7
1 Ratings
22% above category average
FortiMonitor
-
Ratings
Application monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Database monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Threshold alerts10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Predictive capabilities10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application performance management console10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Collaboration tools10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Out-of-the box templates to monitor applications8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Application dependency mapping and thresholding10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Virtualization monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server availability and performance monitoring10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Server usage monitoring and capacity forecasting9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
IT Asset Discovery9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
User Ratings
F5 BeaconFortiMonitor
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(1 ratings)
8.0
(1 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
F5 BeaconFortiMonitor
Likelihood to Recommend
F5
It is very well suited in complex, multi-cloud application environments where it provides holistic, application-centric visibility by ingesting data from NGINX and other telemetry sources. It helps troubleshoot performance issues in high-availability and regulated environments where outages have a high impact on strict SLAs. It is less appropriate in situations where organizations rely on unmaintained or archived integrations.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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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.
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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Pros
F5
  • It supports seamless multi cloud and hybrid monitoring with easy integration.
  • It provides actionable insights for faster troubleshooting.
  • It delivers comprehensive end to end application visibility.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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Fortinet
  • Monitoring from several locations
  • Fast notification
  • Push notifications, SMS and calling
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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Cons
F5
  • F5 needs improvement in Platform Stability and Maintenance gaps.
  • It has limited built-in insights and relies heavily on customization.
  • Application modeling and data ingestion setup is complex.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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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
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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Usability
F5
The reason for the above rating is that F5 Beacon delivers clear visibility, helpful insights, and streamlined decision-making, which, in turn, translates into a better user experience. Beacon easily ingests telemetry from multiple sources, including NGINX, BIG-IP devices, and third-party platforms. The Beacon insight engine generates actionable recommendations and performs anomaly detection.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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Fortinet
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Alternatives Considered
F5
F5 Beacon is best for F5-centric, hybrid, app-centric visibility, whereas Datadog is best for cloud-native, distributed observability. F5 beacon is superior for understanding BIG-IP flows, WAF, ADC behavior at the app level. It has a unified view of F5-powered applications. F5 Beacon simplifies troubleshooting across multicloud F5 deployments. Beacon provides business logic level visibility.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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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.
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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Return on Investment
F5
  • Positive - It provides deep, application-centric visibility by aggregating telemetry from NGINX and other sources.
  • Positive - It improved decision making about scaling, security, and resource allocation.
  • Negative - Setup and Maintenance is a bit complex.
AA
Ali Abrar
Manager Business Development
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Fortinet
  • Provides high availability of services
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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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.