What's New

FortiMonitor 2022.3 includes the following enhancements:

September 30, 2022

Features

• API: The /v2/fabric_connection endpoint now allows FortiOS 7.x fabric integration set up using the API.

• OnSight: Added delay to confirm OnSight clock skew incidents, which will decrease the occurrence of short-duration skew alerts.

• Multi-tenancy: Added the Group by customer option which sorts the available templates by customer when adding a new template.
  

Improvements

• Dashboards: A confirmation message is now displayed when marking a dashboard as favorite by clicking the star icon next to its name.
  

September 20, 2022

Features

• API: Added the ability to set instance geolocation via the API.

• API: Added the /v2/fabric_connection endpoint to allow FortiOS 6.x fabric integration set up using the API.

• Templates: SNMP trap filters can now be added to all network device templates.

September 15, 2022

Features

• Templates: OnSight-based CounterMeasures can now be added to any template.

• API: Added the /v2/server/ID/snmp_discovery endpoint to trigger SNMP device discovery and provisioning.

• SSO: Single sign-in via FortiCloud for all FortiMonitor customers is now enabled.

Improvements

Cloud integration: Improved tracking of cloud integration errors.

September 8, 2022

Features

• Agent: Completed rebranding of the Panopta Agent for Windows (panopta-agent) to FortiMonitor Agent for Windows (fm-agent). Only the FortiMonitor Agents will be available to new customers. To learn more about the differences between the two Agent editions, see FortiMonitor Agent.
  Note: The Linux and Windows panopta-agent will continue to work but will no longer be updated until the EOL date of August 31, 2023. After this date, support and security updates will no longer be provided. We recommend upgrading to the Linux or Windows fm-agent.
  For more information on the feature and to see other Agent updates, see Agent Release Notes.

Improvements

• SNMP: Extended support for serial number detection in Cisco devices monitored via SNMP.

• Reports: Capacity planning report now has size limits to prevent rendering failure in the event of very large report configurations.

September 1, 2022

Features

• Reports: The network device Interface Utilization report is now available. This provides a detailed view of interface metrics such as bandwidth, errors, or packets.

• OnSight: Changes were made to prevent OnSight heartbeat timeouts to be set to less than 5 minutes.

August 18, 2022

Features

• OnSight: Counts of Fabric, Kubernetes and Prometheus metric counts are now shown on the OnSight Details page and OnSight Overview pages.

Improvements

• Alerting: Updated the default SMS gateway for Mexico, Colombia, and Burundi to improve the deliverability of alerts.

August 11, 2022

Features

• Maintenance: Support for arbitrary maintenance period extensions.
  

• Reports: Added additional SNMP credential and last metric report times to the Instance Configuration report.

August 4, 2022

Features

• The Application Monitoring feature is now available. This feature allows you to monitor the performance of applications and services from a customer’s perspective in real time. For more information, see Application Monitoring.

• Windows Agent: Confirmed Agent support for Windows Server 2022.

• Dashboards: Added a limit to the metric count on Metric Summary dashboard widgets to avoid rendering performance problems.

• Incidents: Response time incidents now include links to the NetworkService resource.

• Fabric integration: Fabric device heartbeat incidents are now supported for all downstream Fabric devices in addition to the root FortiGate.

• SNMP: Added a logic to prevent extra whitespace in SNMP credentials from interfering with discovery and metric polling.

Improvements

• Dashboards: Improved the sorting of bandwidth utilization tables in dashboard widgets.

July 28, 2022

Features

• Dashboards: Added time range controls to the Network Interface dashboard widget.

• CounterMeasures: Simulated incidents now include OnSight CounterMeasure details.

• Control Panel: You can now delete nested empty groups.

Improvements

• Metrics: Improved the display of metric configuration when removing an entire metric category.

• Agent: Improved the handling of mount points for Linux Agent I/O metrics.

July 21, 2022

Features

• API: API endpoint for notification schedules now shows metrics that use the schedule, in addition to instances.

• SD-WAN: Added support for auto-tagging of FortiGate SD-WAN instances.

Improvements

• SNMP: Improved handling of special characters in SNMPv3 authentication and encryption keys.

July 14, 2022

Features

• OnSight: Added support for OnSight installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS VMs.

• Dashboards: The Fabric Topology dashboard widget can now be renamed.

• Fabric integration updates:

  • The FortiOS version is now shown for each Fabric connection.

  • Prevent a Fabric integration from being setup with non-active OnSights.

  • Always use the provided IP for accessing root FortiGates when using the Fabric integration.

July 8, 2022

Features

• CounterMeasures: Added the ability to approve OnSight-based CounterMeasures.

Improvements

• Fabric integration: Improved support for adding and editing fabric integrations.

June 30, 2022

Features

• Monitoring policies: A prompt now appears when deleting an instance group associated with a monitoring policy.

Improvements

• Network devices: Network device onboarding now requires a group to be selected or created for the instance before proceeding to the next steps.

• Control panel: Performance improvements throughout the control panel for large accounts.

June 23, 2022

Features

• CounterMeasures: Updated the CounterMeasure incident metadata to use new Incident and Instance keys.

• SNMP: Changes to port scope on SNMP network devices are now captured in Device History.

• Meraki: Added support for Meraki instances where there are ports with non-numeric port IDs.

• Fabric integration: Added support for continuous Fabric device discovery.

Improvements

• Synthetic checks: Improved the error message for multistep checks when the syntax is incorrect.

• Monitoring policies: The full template name on monitoring policy workflow rules are now displayed upon mouse hover.

• Dashboards: Changed the dashboard color-coding to amber for warning threshold breaches.

June 16, 2022

Features

• Metrics: Restricted the frequency of download speed metrics to 1 hour or more.

• Discontinued support for the .NET 4.0 version of the Windows Agent.

Improvements

• Fabric integration: Improved fabric integration rediscovery support.

• Network device monitoring: Improved performance of graph rendering on large network devices.

June 9, 2022

Features

• Cloud Integration: The following actions are now logged:

  • Changes made to the cloud integration

  • Instances are brought in or removed from the cloud integration

  • User who deleted a cloud integration

• OnSight page: The SNMP service name is now added to the Services Discovered column for discovered SNMP network devices.
  

Improvements

• Dashboards: Visual styling improvements for table widgets.

June 2, 2022

Features

• Templates: Added template support for SNMP table metrics.

Improvements

• OnSight: OnSight history now captures each version upgrade.

• Synthetic checks: UI enhancement for editing HTTP/HTTPS synthetic check payload.

May 12, 2022

Features

• OnSight: Added support for the NTP metric.

• Instance Details page: Custom incidents can now be created and configured for all device types.

Improvements

• Control panel: Added a series of tooltip enhancements to make icons easier to interpret throughout the control panel.

May 9, 2022

Features

• Incident Hub: Added clarification and more details to the Incident Hub slide-out panels.

• Alert timelines: Added auxiliary timeline support for AWS Cloud Metrics.

Improvements

• Maintenance: Improved the performance of maintenance period activation for accounts with large numbers of instances.

April 28, 2022

Features

• API: The API /notification_schedule GET endpoint for notification schedules now shows metrics that use the schedule, in addition to instances.

• Reports: Added scoping support and availability data to the SD-WAN report.

• Network checks: You can now edit the location of paused network checks.

• Geo-location information is now automatically added to cloud instances (AWS, Azure) and SNMP devices.

• Integrations: Added the optional username and password fields to the Elasticsearch integration. For more information, see Elasticsearch.

April 20, 2022

Features

• Incident Hub: Beta release of the Email to incident gateway feature. For more information, see Create an incident using email.

• OnSight: Metrics can now be moved from one OnSight to another via the control panel. For more information, see Move instances from an OnSight to another.

Improvements

• Incident Hub: Messages sent to Jira Service Desk are now logged in the incident timeline.

• Dashboards: Improved the display of the Instance Scorecard widget to better show CPU and disk memory.

April 14, 2022

• SD-WAN: Added support for auto-tagging SD-WAN devices in preparation for upcoming default templates and dashboards.

April 7, 2022

Features

• Instance Details page: A warning banner is now displayed whenever a Fabric integration is in an error state.
  

• Reports: The SD-WAN health metric report is now available.

• Geo-location information is now automatically added to instances with a public IP or a resolvable FQDN.

Improvements

• Integrations: Improved usability of how errors are shown on the Cloud integration page.

• Security Fabric: Improved the details of Fabric connection error messages to simplify troubleshooting connection issues.

March 31, 2022

Improvements

• Security Fabric: Improved handling of Fabric integration recovery after a network connectivity break.

• Maintenance: Improved the performance of maintenance activation for large numbers of instances, especially when disrupting active incidents.

March 24, 2022

Features

• Incident Hub: Added the ability to filter metric heartbeat incidents.

• DEM: Endpoint Agent health metrics on DEM related incidents are now displayed.

Improvements

• SNMP: Improvements to how existing SNMP v3 settings are displayed.

March 17, 2022

Features

• Maintenance: The Active Maintenance drawer now shows all currently active and upcoming scheduled maintenance periods.
  

Improvements

• Control panel: Updated the spinning wheel loading indicator to make it more visible.

• Dashboards: Improved the presentation of Fabric metrics in the Dashboard metric selector.
  

March 10, 2022

Features

• Instance Details page: Cleaned up presentation of incident data on the Instance Details page.

• OnSight: Added support for a configurable StorageClass in Kubernetes OnSight helm chart.

• Cloud integration: Cloud integrations can now be created without requiring instances to be found in AWS or Azure at the time of creation.

March 3, 2022

Features

• Integrations: Added support to allow regeneration of Jira and Jira Service Desk OAuth credentials.

• Integrations: Added support for the rediscovery of VMware objects.

Improvements

• Security Fabric: Added richer details on cause of failed fabric connections to facilitate troubleshooting while onboarding Fortinet Fabric devices.

February 24, 2022

Features

• Dashboards: Added support for SNMP-based single metric widgets.

• Control panel: Added support to allow agent-detected hostname changes to trigger updates in the FortiMonitor control panel.

• Instance Details page: Incidents with active maintenance now show a badge to highlight the maintenance on Instance Details pages.

• Templates: Added the ability to create a new instance group when creating a template.

• Security Fabric: Added user-definable labels to Fortinet Fabric connections to help distinguish multiple connections.

• Integrations: Added metric category and metric sub-category to Webhook, Jira, ServiceNow, Salesforce, and ZenDesk alert parameters.

Improvements

• Maintenance: Improved ordering of entries on the Maintenance page when showing active and scheduled maintenance periods.

• Security Fabric: Fabric onboarding now allows you to move forward and backwards to correct input errors.

February 16, 2022

Features

• Instance Group page: Enabled bulk SNMP device scans from Instance Group pages.

• Instance Details page: Added new SD-WAN SLA visualization to Instance Details pages.

Improvements

• Network device monitoring: Enabled larger bulk additions for network device and endpoint add instance flows.

• Dashboards: Enabled additional zooming in Geomap dashboard widgets.

February 10, 2022

Features

• Synthetic checks: Allow the addition of a port value to be defined when setting up a synthetic instance.

• DEM: Added new add instance flow for Windows Endpoint Agent installations. Also, renamed the previous flow to Windows Server Agent.

Improvements

• UI: Revised the wording of Security Fabric integrations from Fabric Portal to Root Fortigate.
  

• Security Fabric: Fabric connection status is now shown in the Fabric Connections table.

• Integrations: Improved validation of ServiceNow instance names when adding or editing integrations.

February 3, 2022

Features

• Azure: Added support for Azure VPN Tunnel status monitoring.

• DEM: DEM-enabled Agents now support TCP/IP port metric data collection.

• Maintenance:You can now place certain metrics under maintenance. Note that only metrics with configured threshold can be put under this type of maintenance.
  To put a single metric under maintenance, choose a metric from the Monitoring Config tab of an instance then click 3-dot menu > Start Maintenance.
  

• Integrations: VMware integration set up errors are now more detailed.

• Security Fabric: Instance counts in the Fabric connection table are now click-able. Clicking the count shows all of the instances associated with the Security Fabric root device.
  

• OnSight vCollector: The OnSight Management page now shows Incident Type and Maintenance badges for such events occurring on each OnSight vCollector.
  

January 27, 2022

Features

• Integrations: The Security Fabric integration is now available.
  This integration allows you to leverage FortiMonitor 's monitoring capabilities to discover and monitor your Fabric environment. See the following articles for more information:

  • Fabric overview

  • Enable Security Fabric monitoring

  • Fabric topology widget

• Templates: Added support for tracking which Auxiliary Notification Schedule records are created from templates.
  

January 20, 2022

Features

• Integrations: GA release of Cisco Meraki integration.
  The Cisco Meraki integration allows you to automatically discover and monitor your Meraki devices and services from within your Meraki Cloud account. Using your Meraki Cloud account’s API, FortiMonitor can reach your Meraki devices and collect metric data from them. For more information, see Cisco Meraki.
  

• Network device monitoring: Added automatic provisioning of core metrics for Juniper and Raritan devices.

Improvements

• Improved Fortinet SD-WAN metric display for devices monitored via SNMP.

January 12, 2022

Features

• DEM: Added TCP retransmission as a metric for use to the DEM Agent.

• SNMP: Added the ability to update an instance's name based on modified SNMP sysName values.

Improvements

• Synthetic checks: Added progress indicator for real-time tests of synthetic network checks.

• PagerDuty integration: Upgraded support for PagerDuty integration, which allows new integrations to be created.

• Control panel: Updated display of Fortinet IPSec metrics to use both ends of the tunnel for the metric name.

• Templates: Clarified network device port filter settings on templates.

January 7, 2022

Features

• DEM: The Windows Digital Experience Agent now supports collection of Wi-Fi and wired network connection details.

• DEM: Allow the addition of a full HTTP URL for Digital Experience Monitoring.

• OnSight: Added support for using default templates to set metric thresholds for Onsight vCollectors.

• Network device monitoring: Added support for user-defined maximum speed on ports.
  

• Control panel: Updated the documentation resource links to point to https://docs.fortimonitor.com/fortimonitor.

• Instance Details page: Added new Sensor State tab for network devices on the Instance Details page.

• Instance Details page: Added new tab with AP admin status for Cisco wireless access controllers.

Improvements

• Dashboards: Added additional caching to speed up dashboard widget rendering, especially for widgets with complex instance selection criteria.