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FortiMonitor vs. Observium

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FortiMonitor
Score 8.0 out of 10
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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
Observium
Score 9.1 out of 10
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Pricing
FortiMonitorObservium
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitorObservium
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
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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Community Pulse
FortiMonitorObservium
Top Pros

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Best Alternatives
FortiMonitorObservium
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User Ratings
FortiMonitorObservium
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
10.0
(4 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FortiMonitorObservium
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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Observium
  • If you are on a budget, this is one heck of a tool for the price (including the ~$200/year for the Pro subscription).
  • If you are OK with maintaining and updating open source tools, this is a great tool.
  • If you are afraid of the Linux command line or live in a Windows-centric world, this might not be the tool for you.
  • If you can't stand things occasionally not working, this is probably not a good fit.
Derek Dolan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Derek Dolan
Senior System Administrator
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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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Observium
  • Automatic device discovery.
  • Scalability
  • Real-time monitoring.
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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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Observium
  • Documentation
  • Community support
  • Easy to set up but hard to customise fully
Verified User
Anonymous
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Support Rating
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
Observium
It's open source. Your mileage may vary. Sometimes the provided documentation is beyond frustrating, other times it's right on the mark.
Derek Dolan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Derek Dolan
Senior System Administrator
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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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Observium
I haven't used other products that are similar to Observium. Observium is an open tool, with a robust feature set. There are elements of comparable monitoring across other tools, but nothing I've seen that is a complete parallel in terms of feature set and visualizations. If I were asked, I wouldn't have another tool to recommend over Observium.
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Anonymous
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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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Observium
  • It is good for DC admin.
  • Only positive impact.
  • Highly recommended.
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.