# Page 2 | ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 2 - Is ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer the right Network Security solution for you? Explore 243 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/172277/ManageEngine-Firewall-Analyzer/reviews --- ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer 4.5 (243) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Page 2 - Reviews of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 26-50 of 243 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use DD Debjit D. System Admin Information Technology and Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Manage Engine Experience" November 18, 2025 5.0 The Presentation was extremely well polished. To the point presentation was given. Well organised show indeed. Pros Everything, It is a well developed application. We are using manage engine product called desktop central . Cons Nothing much, all good. However, it should detect logs for insecurely managed passwords in individual systems. Review Source MR Mohamed R. Network Engineer Utilities Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Introducing preciseness and management of the firewall logs" April 2, 2025 4.0 Pros With the feature of log management, our compliance reporting has become less cumbersome during audits due to the use of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer . It is easy to use and can be operated through the menu bar for the main operations.​ Cons Some older firewall models are not covered in their entirety providing a restricted view across all the devices. . The compatibility has to be extended to improve the efficiency of the tool.​ Review Source AY Adjmal Y. Technician Education Management Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Encouraging the change with audit trails" April 26, 2025 4.0 Pros The audit trail functionality which is available with the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer has been especially helpful in tracking the changes on the firewall. It gives a clear record if changes that have been made thus eliminating chances of misunderstanding or disagreement in case of an issue.​ Cons I observed that it was possible for changes to be omitted from the audit logs, especially where there were initial changes followed by subsequent enhancements, which would affect tracking.​ Review Source RL Ringo L. IT Analyst Retail Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Enhanced internal control systems and increased transparency" April 20, 2025 5.0 Pros I liked the historical log retention and reporting of Firewall Analyzer very much for audit and compliance purposes. I was able to trace incidents to direct IPs and ports in line with the time in which it occurred solving our internal and external audit needs. Cons On a few occasions, the tool utilized for generating exports took a long time because of the large volumes of data regarding the history. Review Source eT ekta T. Solution architect Chemicals Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "A great firewall product " November 20, 2025 4.0 My overall experience with ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer has been good so far. The platform is easy to navigate, and the dashboards provide clear visibility into network traffic and security events. Pros The real-time alerting system for anomalies and attacks is very quick and accurate.Helps keep firewall policies clean and efficient. Cons hands-on experience with ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer to identify specific shortcomings, so this section is not applicable in my case. I have not used the platform extensively enough to comment on areas that need improvement or features that may be lacking. Review Source TV Tiffany V. Systems Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Maintaining clean and an effective set of rules on our firewalls" April 20, 2025 4.0 Pros Firewall Analyzer’s rule usage analysis is the feature that got me incredibly involved because it helped in my work. I was successfully able to distinctly locate rules which were no longer in use thus help in policy cleaning of a Check Point firewall and in return enhanced performance and security. Cons Extra feature is that the email alerting may resubmit the event alert in the alert list after the alert acknowledgement is made. This at times floods the mailbox and at the same time distracts mostly in focusing sharp on the topics. Review Source WG Waleed G. Project Manager Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Such insight empowered solutions yielded more leaner environment" April 22, 2025 5.0 Pros When using ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer, analyzing rules revealed that some rules were in essence redundant or stood in contradiction to each other. Due to these inefficiencies, I could enhance the firewall utilization and make the security policies efficient.​ Cons The process of adoption of the suggested rules was not fully automated and required manual inputs, adding more human interface opportunities and insecurity to the procedure. Review Source MA Mohamed A. IT Infrastructure and Technical Support Manager Construction Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Gave us more insights about the firewall policy redundancies" April 9, 2025 4.0 Pros Firewall Analyzer provides reports that align with particular standards such as PCI-DSS and ISO that make it easy to pass through audits. Due to the detailed list of violations and their corresponding rules, policies that need to be addressed can be done so easily. Cons I had challenges upon incorporating it with other SIEM tools. Some logs had to be formatted in order to fit the requirements of the analyzer and this introduced additional steps into what was envisioned to be a smooth flow. Review Source GD Gobinda D. Network Engineer Telecommunications Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Helped me gain actionable insights into firewall behavior" April 27, 2025 4.0 Pros I found Firewall Analyzer’s feature of analyzing bandwidth usage on applications from the firewall logs to be very useful. It helped me to discover what applications were most active in the usage of the network resources. Cons What I disliked most was the slow results during archiving during historical log searches while investigating incidents and filtering by multiple parameters. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer project manager Capital Markets Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "quick glance of firewall activity on dashboard" March 10, 2025 5.0 great product for managing firewall rules, policy also other aspect like network bandwidth monitoring and logs and alert on firewall Pros quick glance of firewall activity on dashboard Cons as of not yet found any limitations on firewall analyzer Review Source MA Murat A. IT Professor Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Used to maintain uptight my firewall rules" April 11, 2025 4.0 I am familiar with many similar tools, but this one is optimal in terms of providing visibility and not too much control. It has cut the time I spend checking firewalls and the general health of rule base making it difficult for attackers to infiltrate our network. Pros Firewall Analyzer told me about policies not triggered for months and presented me with combined rules that introduced extra access. It has simplified my fence instantiations and has made it easier to review my modified configurations. Cons Some of the custom reports cannot be exported in some ways. The problem of converting the captured data into detailed weekly summaries in the CSV file with some specific fields required me to format them manually before presenting to the management. Review Source DB Duniemu B. IT Project Manager Hospitality Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ensuring our organization meets necessary regulatory standards" April 21, 2025 4.0 Pros I liked Firewall Analyzer's automated alerting system because I consider it as a strong solution. It immediately alerts me of any suspicious activities in my account in order to take the necessary actions. The generation of compliance reports to detail some of the findings has also been useful. Cons I faced a problem with the syslog archiving option used in my installation. The logs were not formatted in a manner that allowed for easy tracking of events as likewise, the time stamp on the archived logs was missing. Review Source CG Carlos G. IT Director Architecture & Planning Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Effective smart audit to enhance Firewall Governance" April 17, 2025 4.0 Pros I enjoyed Firewall Analyzer’s compliance report templates and have hoped for year. In traffic and rule data, I had to let built-in formats generate the PCI and ISO reports. This not only helped to save time, but also to make clear and well documented log entries with every trail. Cons VPN usage analytics do not provide a detailed classification into one of the types of traffic. I was unable to segment it down by certain users or endpoints or time spans without having to use other log sources that were not within the tool. Review Source HR Henrijs R. System Administrator Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Unused rules made the security more systematic and efficient" April 19, 2025 4.0 Pros I was able to get sufficient information concerning the firewall settings with the help of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer. Also it provided me with the feature of real-time monitoring and alerting which helped to reduce the possibility of any form of erroneous activities within the network.​ Cons With reference to the tool, I faced problems regarding the high levels of resources the tool required during the period that I undertook the project, the high usage of system resources meant that the performance reduced. Review Source SP Sascha P. Cloud Engineer Restaurants Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simplifies configuration change tracking and enhancing our oversight" April 22, 2025 4.0 Pros The ability of the Firewall Analyzer to manage and report about the firewall configuration in our organization environment has enhanced the change management. It gives detail on who conducted changes and when to assist in holding people responsible for their work.​ Cons It does not capture series of changes in short successions therefore missing specific change history. This is somewhat limiting when the auditors are trying to perform a comprehensive review of the adopted changes in configuration.​ Review Source PE Paketleme E. Technical Support officer Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Ensured prevention of threats with no element of guesswork" April 10, 2025 4.0 Implementing the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer has assisted me in obtaining the control over multi-zone firewalls. These features have made a great influence to our internal compliance for example; Its reporting system and Audit trail, and change tracking. Pros I found useful with Firewall Analyzer was that I could easily follow the firewalls live activity and trace policy breaches and other unwanted external activities in real time. It has proven to be valuable to the organization due to the fact that it is able to detect and link security incidents to emergent threats. Cons The product might identify false positives in anomaly detection when the package processes large log data from multiple firewalls. This scenario leads to time consumption in handling real threats since some of the alerts require my validation for their credibility. Review Source EA Esther A. Project Manager Higher Education Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Improves my network traffic visibility" April 22, 2025 4.0 Pros Real-time bandwidth utilization with Monitor and significant issues with traffic flow can be seen right away with ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer. It has been essential in the enhancement of network visibility by achieving the following advantages.​ Cons The first step was the necessity to open some ports which were overlapping with others being used in the network. These conflicts also required more time and coordination with the IT department to sort out.​ Review Source NP Neran P. TC Information Technology and Services Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Best Firewall Analyzer" July 24, 2025 5.0 It has a range of filtering options that are straightforward to configure and utilize. This has proxy (squid) analysis features. That is great. Pros A simplified dashboard is available for reviewing logs. Email notifications can be configured accordingly. Cons The price is high for the product. There can be more APIs to utilize. Initial configuration of devices is time-consuming. Review Source HJ Hassene J. IT Support Specialist Real Estate Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Offered detailed real time monitoring of the firewall rules" April 11, 2025 5.0 Pros I felt that ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer really helped in identifying the rules that are not really required and are just occupying space. Erasing such long-standing rules benefited the network efficiency and strengthen the security of the access control without hindering the relevant traffic. Cons One of its drawbacks is that the program has long response time when drawing traffic trend graphs during high log influx. Review Source NS Nina S. Head of Business Development Health, Wellness and Fitness Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Gave alerting for the unauthorized rule modifications" April 11, 2025 4.0 I found Firewall Analyzer as useful tool to be useful and effective in the work that I do. It was useful for me to integrate log management of several different firewall vendors and to provide precise security state overviews. Pros I found out that the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer is a tool that is used in analyzing the firewall logs in an automated manner and gives alerts in real-time depending on some relayed threshold. It has assisted in alerting me to suspicious sign-in activities as well as configuration modifications. Cons The configuration change reports sometimes do not capture finer information such as the object level changes in nested policies especially where there is use of complex multiple vendors. This made me cross check on the policy versions sometimes manually. Review Source AA Abdullah A. IT Technician Hospitality Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Enhanced our capacity of dealing with firewall logs from various vendors" April 19, 2025 4.0 Pros I was able to compile logs from multiple devices from the different vendors in a single window due to the multi-vendor support in the ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer. This consolidation also eased the supervisory challenges of monitoring and evaluating especially with our widespread network infrastructures.​ Cons The auto-discovery was sometimes tricky; sometimes, some of the devices would not be picked up and had to be configured manually. This put more time into the deployment and needed to be addressed.​ Review Source KJ Kevyn J. Systems Engineer Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Making it more efficient to oversee various devices" April 22, 2025 4.0 Pros A particularly noteworthy feature of ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer it is the ability to support multiple vendors. It enables us to be in control of several devices by using one interface for management purposes to enable the control and the complexity of a network.​ Cons Some of the challenges I faced when implementing the firewall models were not easy to overcome. Due to the lack of detail for such specific devices the configuration took longer that it was initially anticipated.​ Review Source AO Amer O. IT Manager Machinery Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Empowered our network security management" April 3, 2025 4.0 Pros Firewall Analyzer alert notifications send when a threat arises help to address threats swell in a timely manner. The detailed reports on all the security instances provide insight into the operations of the firewall system so as to enable proper decision making.​ Cons There were few complexities which are a few added configurations with certain firewall vendors which was quite tedious. It was actually realized as hard work to make all the computer components work in harmony with each other.​ Review Source KP KEERATI P. Computer Engineer Higher Education Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Centralize compliance tracking across multiple firewalls" April 17, 2025 5.0 Pros With help of Firewall Analyzer I was able to find out that some rules were overlapping, some were inactive, or simply used by one vendor or the other. This helped me clean up rule bases, cut number of policies, and enhance the efficiency of the firewall while maintaining safety level. Cons A disadvantage I experienced is that periodical reports can sometimes fail if the directory to contain them is unreachable. Review Source HM Hassan M. Senior Software Development Engineer Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Improved the network visibility by having a detailed report." March 20, 2025 3.0 Pros The refreshed bandwidth utilization reports provided by ManageEngine Firewall Analyzer have helped in fine tuning our network usage in a big way. This has served us well in helping keep tab on bandwidth users and corresponding policies in order to maximize thebandwidth usage. Cons The resource it uses could at times slow down to a point where usage is affected especially during the rush hours. It also required hardware upgrades to ensure that it runs to optimum functionality which is an additional cost that was not foreseen. Review Source