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FortiMonitor vs. SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset

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
SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Score 8.7 out of 10
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SolarWinds® Engineer’s Toolset (ETS) helps users monitor and troubleshoot a network with over 60 tools for network management. ETS allows users to monitor and receive alerts in real time on network availability and health, and perform network diagnostics for faster troubleshooting and resolution of complex network issues. With ETS users can deploy an array of network discovery tools including Port Scanner, Switch Port Mapper or advanced Subnet Calculator, manage Cisco® devices with specialized…
$1,585
Per Instance
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One Time Price
$1,585
Per Instance
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FortiMonitorSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Free Trial
YesYes
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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User Ratings
FortiMonitorSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(1 ratings)
8.6
(11 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
FortiMonitorSolarWinds Engineer's Toolset
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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SolarWinds
I have found the toolset especially useful for scanning subnets to discover devices, and for setting up temporary real-time monitors when we are troubleshooting or setting up new connections. The most useful aspect has been the ability to apply the tools to help troubleshoot and pinpoint intermittent issues. More general tools like Orion often do not have the granularity to detect issues like intermittent packet loss which are especially impactful to applications like Voice. The toolset gives us another level of capability to dig into issues.
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Anonymous
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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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SolarWinds
  • Various monitoring
  • Stores history
  • Suggests indices
  • Helps to find the SQL query text
  • Helps to see what machines/users the bad queries are coming from
  • Shows current blocking session
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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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SolarWinds
  • The unifying component that is intended to be the initial interface to the tools seems clunky. I prefer to start the tools individually rather than using it.
  • The port scanner could use some improvements to make it easier to use.
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Anonymous
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Usability
Fortinet
No answers on this topic
SolarWinds
Very easy to use and intuitive. Just be careful with the WAN Killer...it does what it says.
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Anonymous
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Support Rating
Fortinet
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SolarWinds
Our organization uses it regularly. It is reliable, and we keep finding new uses for it
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Anonymous
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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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SolarWinds
I haven't compared any tools similar to SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset. This might be because I'm pretty biased when it comes to monitoring, and reporting solutions. I've found that SolarWinds provides the biggest bang for the buck in my opinion. I'm sure there are other solutions on the market that compete, but I haven't tried any of them because I've been very satisfied with SolarWinds.
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Thomas Osborne
Network System Administrator
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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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SolarWinds
  • Spend less time downloading free buggy tools
  • All the tools in one spot, so you don't have to look around for tools
  • Get to the solution sooner
Jacob Garrett | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jacob Garrett
Senior System Engineer
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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.

SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset Screenshots

Screenshot of Perform network stress tests with Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer. You don’t need to use real traffic for studying network activities, like testing traffic and load balancing. Instead, deploy Engineer's Toolset WAN Killer to help interactively test connections and adjust the IP traffic generated to achieve the desired network load based on your requirements.Screenshot of Quickly troubleshoot your network with enhanced ping capabilities and packet route tracing, among other network bandwidth usage and monitoring tools included in ETS.Screenshot of Using ETS, you can run scans to gain insight into how routers, hubs switches, and other devices are configured by analyzing SNMP queries and viewing MIB attributes. ETS is designed to help you more easily understand whether your network and ports are using appropriate settings.Screenshot of Config Compare, a part of ETS, is built to compare the running configuration of a Cisco router with the startup configuration. With the Cisco configuration compare tool, you can easily detect the changes made to the network, switch, and router configurations that are not committed to non-volatile memory (NVRAM).Screenshot of Manage your IP network from discovery to address tracking. Discover subnets on a seed router and scan the subnet or a range of IP addresses, generate a list of subnets along with their mask, size, range, and broadcast address and actively monitor subnets to identify and track which IP addresses are in use on your network.