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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    PingPlotter

    Score9 out of 10
    N/APingPlotter is a graphical traceroute and ping tool that visualizes network performance in a way that makes identifying the source of problems quicker and easier for everyone from online gamers and video streamers to VoIP admins and IT pros. Features for remote deployment, network monitoring, scripting, and a web interface are included along with several additional capabilities.

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    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    Editions & Modules
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    PingPlotter Free
    $0.00
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    PingPlotter Free
    $0.00
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    PingPlotter Standard
    $6.99
    per user per month
    PingPlotter Professional
    $29.00
    per user per month
    PingPlotter Standard
    $39.99
    per user
    PingPlotter Professional
    $349.00
    per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    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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    Community Pulse
    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    Considered Both Products
    Fortinet
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    Pingman Tools
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    100%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    33 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    100%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    Network Performance Monitoring
    Comparison of Network Performance Monitoring features of FortiMonitor and PingPlotter
    Feature
    FortiMonitor
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    Ratings
    PingPlotter
    8.5
    34 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Automated network device discovery00 Ratings8.724 Ratings
    Network monitoring00 Ratings9.434 Ratings
    Baseline threshold calculation00 Ratings9.624 Ratings
    Alerts00 Ratings6.919 Ratings
    Customizable reports00 Ratings8.018 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
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    9.1
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
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    9.3
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    Support Rating
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    9.0
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    User Testimonials
    FortiMonitorPingPlotter
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Pingman Tools
    This tool is best suited to get a quick read on basic network access across multiple hops. It provides immediate, very valuable feedback. If you know your stuff, there are other tools that handle the rest you need: packet capture, port scans, etc. We are all looking for that multi-tool, but this is perfect for the basic need of knowing where in the network a problem might be.
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    Pros
    Fortinet
    • Monitoring from several locations
    • Fast notification
    • Push notifications, SMS and calling
    Incentivized
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    Pingman Tools
    • Monitor traffic in network
    • Measure stops when contacting network locations such as websites
    • Measures the lag and latency it takes to contact network locations
    • Gives you both induvidual measurements as well as good oversight
    • identifies when network lag or disconnect occurs
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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
    Incentivized
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    Pingman Tools
    • Being able to export data would have been helpful for a larger analysis.
    • It is a robust program and probably more than we needed for a small business; some options that were better aligned with our budget would have been good.
    • As a non-technical person in the networking space, I found the data helpful for communicating, but not always easy to understand.
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    Usability
    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Pingman Tools
    I installed it and it just started working. I realized I could then tweak it to show what I needed but didn't have to spend a long time configuring it before use, editing YAML files etc. Maybe that's fine for a network professional, but I only need this software if something goes wrong, and then need it to work quickly out of the box.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Fortinet
    No answers on this topic
    Pingman Tools
    I have not had much contact with the PingPlotter support, only one time have I went to them and it was a positive experience. The questions I had were answered quickly and professionally. I have no issue with the experience I had with the Support team. This was from before and after the purchase of the product.
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Pingman Tools
    I used Ping.app and UptimeLog.app on the Mac. These both provided different aspects. These two had a menubar to show me green or red for multiple connections. UptimeLog showed me very clearly when my connectivity was on or off and for exactly how long
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    Return on Investment
    Fortinet
    • Provides high availability of services
    Incentivized
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    Pingman Tools
    • Great ROI, troubleshooting time has been reduced by 90%
    • Network Discoveries used to take 2 to 3 hours and were inconsistent - now it is a matter of minutes
    • lacks integration into our MSP toolkit, and we now use it as a stand alone product
    Incentivized
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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.

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