Licensing Question | FortiAnalyzer Cloud

[NAS]

Hello everyone,

I have a question regarding FortiAnalyzer Cloud licensing. I have the following setup: one FortiGate 70G at the main site and two additional FortiGate 50Gs at two branch offices. We want to use FortiAnalyzer Cloud. If I understand the FortiAnalyzer datasheet correctly, with the "5GB/Day Subscription" license you need a collector, which is a small on-premises appliance or VM running in collector mode. That means that, in addition to the subscription, I would also need a full license and hardware for the appliance or VM. Did I understand that correctly?

If that’s the case, I think with this scope the more cost-effective alternative would be to go with the "per Device Subscription."

I would appreciate your feedback.

Best regards,
Karsten

[Jean-Philippe_P]

Hello NAS, 

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible. 

Thanks, 

[asrour · Accepted solution]

Hi Karsten, @NAS 

You will need FAZ-Cloud entitlment on the FortiGates, the FGTs with the entitlments will send logs directly to FAZ-Cloud and a FAZ-Cloud subsicription

No collector is required.

https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-FortiGate-Requires-FortiAnalyzer-Cloud-ent... 

Regards

[NAS]

Hi Asrour,
thanks for the info. I also discussed this with our distribution, and it was the same statement, as long as you don’t want to use a collector.

Best regards,
Karsten