Fortinet FortiGate

Fortinet FortiGate

Gain insights into the performance of your Fortinet FortiGate solution.

Extension

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Overview

The FortiGate Monitoring extension uses HTTP API requests to gather data remotely, ensuring that data from your Fortinet FortiGate devices is collected every minute and analyzed continuously by our platform. This tool offers insights that extend beyond simple charting, covering the extensive features and capabilities of the FortiGate devices. Our unified analysis pages provide deep insights into both the health and performance of your network security infrastructure, while our analytics engine sets baselines and alerts for critical indicators. With a topology-first approach, our AI-driven analytics can explore and correlate detected issues across components to pinpoint root causes.

This is designed for users who:

Aim to monitor the health state and performance of their FortiGate Fortinet devices
Seek analysis support for security, IT, and network administrators.

This enables you to:

Monitor your network security infrastructure with an all-encompassing dashboard
Detect network anomalies and establish alerting mechanisms for them
Monitor traffic, errors, and connectivity to the devices
Implement proactive measures to prevent security incidents and service degradation

Use cases

Monitor Fortinet FortiGate infrastructure and resource utilization
Understand the health and performance of firewall, interfaces, tunnels, and proxies
Enable alerting on detected anomalies

Get started

Activate the extension in your environment web-UI using the in-product Hub, provide the necessary device configuration, and you’re all set.

Details

The extension package contains:

Python data source code for metric ingestion and problem detection.
Topology and relationship definitions for physical (FortiGate devices, network interfaces) and logical (Tunnels, proxies) components of the Fortinet FortiGate platform.
Dashboard offering monitoring overviews and a high level status overview
Alerts covering component availability
Unified Analysis pages for each entity

This extension is built on top of the new Extension 2.0 Framework.

Compatibility information

The extension retrieves the list of interfaces and available interfaces from the two endpoints below:

/monitor/system/interface/select?scope=global
/monitor/system/available-interfaces/select

As such, queries to CMDB endpoints are not performed and include_vlan parameter is not added to the query. This may lead to not all virtual interfaces being collected during data acquisition process.

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

screen actions

10

screen entities lists

13

metric metadata

26

screen layout

5

list screen layout

5

generic type

7

generic relationship

7

screen chart groups

21

dashboards

1

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Tunnel bytes in	fortigate.tunnel.bytes.in.count	Tunnel bytes in	Byte
Tunnel bytes out	fortigate.tunnel.bytes.out.count	Tunnel bytes out	Byte
Tunnel proxy bytes in	fortigate.tunnel.proxy.bytes.in.count	Tunnel proxy bytes in	Byte
Tunnel proxy bytes out	fortigate.tunnel.proxy.bytes.out.count	Tunnel proxy bytes out	Byte
Tunnel proxy status	fortigate.tunnel.proxy.status	Tunnel proxy status	State

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Ping availability	fortigate.ping.availability	Ping availability	Percent
Ping packets in	fortigate.ping.packets.in	Ping packets in	Count
Ping packets out	fortigate.ping.packets.out	Ping packets out	Count
Ping packets lost	fortigate.ping.packets.lost	Ping packets lost	Count
Ping RTT	fortigate.ping.rtt	Ping RTT	MilliSecond

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Interface bytes in	fortigate.interface.bytes.in.count	Interface bytes in	Byte
Interface bytes out	fortigate.interface.bytes.out.count	Interface bytes out	Byte
Interface errors in	fortigate.interface.errors.in.count	Interface errors in	Count
Interface errors out	fortigate.interface.errors.out.count	Interface errors out	Count
Interface packets in	fortigate.interface.packets.in.count	Interface packets in	Count
Interface packets out	fortigate.interface.packets.out.count	Interface packets out	Count
Interface speed	fortigate.interface.speed	Interface speed	Unspecified
Interface status	fortigate.interface.status	Interface status	State

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Connectivity	fortigate.connectivity	Connectivity	Percent
CPU usage	fortigate.cpu.usage	CPU usage	Percent
Disk log rate	fortigate.disk.log.rate	Disk log rate	Percent
Disk usage	fortigate.disk.usage	Disk usage	Percent
Memory usage	fortigate.memory.usage	Memory usage	Percent
Sessions	fortigate.sessions	IPv4 Sessions	Count
IPv6 Sessions	fortigate.sessions.ipv6	IPv6 Sessions	Count

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Bug fixes:

Fixed an error condition where trying to ping an unreachable host caused an exception and did not raise a problem event.

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Breaking changes:

This is a new MAJOR release. Not compatible with previously published versions.
Any existing monitoring configurations will have to be recreated.

Bug fixes:

Inability to filter down interfaces due to the splitlines attribute bug.

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Highly improved parallel execution.
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