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Monitor dashboards and widgets

Monitor dashboards and widgets

Monitor dashboards and widgets allows you to view various states of your FortiGate pertaining to routing, VPN, DHCP, devices, users, quarantine, and wireless connections.

The following default monitor dashboards are built into FortiOS:

  • Network
  • Users & Devices
  • WiFi

Each built-in dashboard contains multiple widgets which can be expanded for detail view. To save a view as its own dashboard, click Save > Save as Standalone. For more information, see Using widgets

To view the widgets available in each dashboard category, click Add Widget.

Category

Use these widgets to:

Monitor
  • View users and devices connected to the network
  • Identify threats from individual users and devices, and quarantine them.
  • View FortiGuard and FortiClient data
  • Monitor traffic bandwidth over time
Network
  • Monitor DHCP clients
  • Monitor IPsec VPN connections
  • Monitor current routing table
  • Monitor SD-WAN status
  • Monitor SSL-VPN connections
WiFi
  • View FortiAP status, channel utilization, and clients
  • View login failures and signal strength
  • View the number of WiFi clients

Monitor dashboards and widgets

Monitor dashboards and widgets allows you to view various states of your FortiGate pertaining to routing, VPN, DHCP, devices, users, quarantine, and wireless connections.

The following default monitor dashboards are built into FortiOS:

  • Network
  • Users & Devices
  • WiFi

Each built-in dashboard contains multiple widgets which can be expanded for detail view. To save a view as its own dashboard, click Save > Save as Standalone. For more information, see Using widgets

To view the widgets available in each dashboard category, click Add Widget.

Category

Use these widgets to:

Monitor
  • View users and devices connected to the network
  • Identify threats from individual users and devices, and quarantine them.
  • View FortiGuard and FortiClient data
  • Monitor traffic bandwidth over time
Network
  • Monitor DHCP clients
  • Monitor IPsec VPN connections
  • Monitor current routing table
  • Monitor SD-WAN status
  • Monitor SSL-VPN connections
WiFi
  • View FortiAP status, channel utilization, and clients
  • View login failures and signal strength
  • View the number of WiFi clients