About logs & logging
FortiWeb appliances can log many different network activities and traffic including:
• overall network traffic
• system-related events including system restarts and HA activity
• matches of policies with
Action set to a log-generating option such as
Alert Each type can be useful during troubleshooting or forensic investigation. For more information about log types, see
“Log types”.
You can select a priority level that log messages must meet in order to be recorded. For more information, see
“Log severity levels”.
For a detailed description of each FortiWeb log message, as well as log message structure, see the FortiWeb Log Message Reference.
The FortiWeb appliance can save log messages to its memory, or to a remote location such as a Syslog server or FortiAnalyzer appliance. For more information, see
“Configuring logging”. The FortiWeb appliance can also use log messages as the basis for reports. For more information, see
“Reports”.
The FortiWeb appliance also displays event and attack log messages on the dashboard. For more information, see
“Attack Log Console widget” and
“Event Log Console widget”.
See also