fortigate_exporter vs fortiosapi

fortigate_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Fortigate firewalls (by bluecmd)

fortiosapi

Python library aimed to be used by configuration management system using Fortigate/Fortios devices (REST API) (by fortinet-solutions-cse)

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fortigate_exporter		fortiosapi
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4	Mentions	1
205	Stars	114
-	Growth	0.0%
6.2	Activity	0.0
2 months ago	Latest Commit	about 1 year ago
Go	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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fortigate_exporter

Posts with mentions or reviews of fortigate_exporter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-02.

Automation in Security Fabric
1 project | /r/fortinet | 17 Sep 2022

We just feed every data point of our FortiGates into our monitoring system with the prometheus exporter: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter
30E memory steadily increases by 1% every ~40 minutes, but will immediately reduce when I log in to the web interface
1 project | /r/fortinet | 25 Feb 2022

A quick google search shows that this is a known issue with firmware versions below 6.4.x when using the fortigate_exporter plugin for Prometheus (which I am), which is a shame because the the latest firmware for the 30E is 6.2.10.
Fortigate SNMP respoding "401 Unauthorized"
1 project | /r/fortinet | 5 Mar 2021

If you get 401 - seems you need to configure FortiGate like here https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter and SNMP configuration is not needed. Otherwise you can check SNMP with snmpwalk.
Fortigate Exporter for Prometheus
2 projects | /r/networking | 2 Mar 2021

A few months back I created an exporter using the Fortigate API to enable people to monitor their Fortigate firewalls using Prometheus. You can find it here: https://github.com/bluecmd/fortigate_exporter.

fortiosapi

Posts with mentions or reviews of fortiosapi. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-28.

Using Netmiko with Fortigate
2 projects | /r/networking | 28 Mar 2022

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fortigate_exporter and fortiosapi you can also consider the following projects:

node_exporter - Exporter for machine metrics

DirectFire_Converter - DirectFire Firewall Converter - Network Security, Next-Generation Firewall Configuration Conversion, Firewall Syntax Translation and Firewall Migration Tool - supports Cisco ASA, Fortinet FortiGate (FortiOS), Juniper SRX (JunOS), SSG / Netscreen (ScreenOS) and WatchGuard (support for further devices in development). Similar to FortiConverter, SmartMove, Expedition etc.

prometheus - The Prometheus monitoring system and time series database.

fortigate - Script and stuff for Fortigate firewalls

blackbox_exporter - Blackbox prober exporter

fortiscan - A high performance FortiGate SSL-VPN vulnerability scanning and exploitation tool.

kube-state-metrics - Add-on agent to generate and expose cluster-level metrics.

windows_exporter - Prometheus exporter for Windows machines