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FortiMonitor vs. Grafana Cloud

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Grafana Cloud
Score 8.7 out of 10
N/A
Grafana Cloud is a fully managed Observability Platform designed to aggregate, visualize, and analyze telemetry data across distributed architectures. The platform provides a unified environment for Metrics, Logs, Traces, and Continuous Profiling, utilizing the LGTM (Loki, Grafana, Tempo, Mimir) and Pyroscope stack to provide high-cardinality analysis of system state.
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Pricing
FortiMonitorGrafana Cloud
Editions & Modules
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Grafana Cloud - Pro
$8
per month up to 1 active user
Grafana Cloud - Free
Free
10k metrics + 50GB logs + 50GB traces up to 3 active users
Grafana Cloud - Advanced
Volume Discounts
custom data usage custom active users
Grafana - Enterprise Stack
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitorGrafana Cloud
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOur 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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User Ratings
FortiMonitorGrafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
9.4
(7 ratings)
Usability
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(0 ratings)
9.6
(3 ratings)
User Testimonials
FortiMonitorGrafana Cloud
Likelihood to Recommend
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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Grafana Labs
Just about any organization with more than one server and more than one cluster as it scales very well. Configuration of the application takes time and finesse to fine tune to where the balance of load time and getting data quickly meets. The plugins add load time but fine tuning for the application to meet demand needs nailed down at implementation
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Pros
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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Grafana Labs
  • Alerting through many different medium as Slack, Email, Webhook etc
  • Beautiful and unlimited number of dashboards to view your metrics and tweak them as you please
  • Log aggregation and powerful Logql to filter and view your logs
  • Microservices monitoring
  • Large number of plugins and data sources to collect your metrics from almost anywhere
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Cons
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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Grafana Labs
  • There are some settings which we can't configure from UI (Web Console).
  • We've open[ed] up configuration files in command line text editors and manually do the settings e.g. LDAP/SSO configuration.
  • In terms of visualization, it's best, but it doesn't support log analysis otherwise it could destroy business of all other visualization tools.
ANurag Tamrakar | TrustRadius Reviewer
ANurag Tamrakar
Software Engineer - DevOps
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Usability
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
Grafana Labs
It is infinitely flexible. If you can imagine it, Grafana can almost certainly do it. Usability may be in the eye of the beholder however, as there is time needed to curate the experience and get the dashboards customized to how it makes sense to you. I know one thing they are working on are more templates, based on data sources
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Alternatives Considered
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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Grafana Labs
Grafana blows Nagios out of the water when it comes to customization. The ability to feed almost any data source makes it very versatile and the cost is great.
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Return on Investment
Fortinet
  • Provides high availability of services
Tomasz Lipinski | TrustRadius Reviewer
Tomasz Lipinski
Director of New Technologies and Development
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Grafana Labs
  • Grafana has replaced many higher priced tools
  • The integrations are seemless with multiple backends
  • Combining graphs and dashboards from multiple data sources is a game changer
Verified User
Anonymous
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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.