What's New

FortiMonitor 2023.4 includes the following enhancements:

December 14, 2023

• OnSight 100F: OnSight 100F now supports SD-WAN synthetics.

• Dashboards: Added support for additional HTML styles for the HTML widget.

• Metrics: Improved the incident description for aggregate metrics such that the metric name and a comprehensive description are now displayed when an incident occurs.

• Reports: Added the Incident Acknowledgment filter to the MTTR & MTTA Report configuration.

December 7, 2023

• Dashboards: Public dashboards can now be scoped using parameters if the dashboard is configured for it.

• Path monitoring: Network provided color-coding is now enabled by default. To disable color-coding, select More > Node with a n/w provider.
  

• OnSight vCollector: The geolocation setting of an OnSight can now be set from the OnSight's details page.
  

• Incident Hub: Performance improvements to Incident Details pages.

• DEM: The MacOS DEM Agent is now available.
  

November 30, 2023

• The Topology feature is now available. Topology helps network and IT administrators to find the interconnections and relationships between devices in an IT infrastructure.

• The Path Monitoring feature is now available. Path Monitoring allows you to look into the reachability of target instances from one or more sources.
  

• Alerting: Port and metric tags are now included in alert emails.

• Dashboards: UI improvements to the widget catalog.

• OnSight: Improved the onsight-mgr logic for finding the current container version.

• Fabric integration: Added support for default frequency for different Fabric metrics.

• Dashboards: You can now set the default dashboard from the main Dashboards page.
  

• Dashboards: The Instance Summary table and Metric Summary table now allow for FQDN to be added as a column.

November 17, 2023

• OnSight 100F: Added support for proxy configuration.

• Dashboards: Added the FQDN column, which shows the server FQDN as a hyperlink, to the Network Interfaces widget.

• Dashboards: Detailed instance information now slides out instead of opening a new page when a block from the Heat Map widget is clicked.

• Dashboards: Added an option for metric-focused widgets to only show values for metrics which have crossed a threshold and have an active incident. This change is applied to the following widgets:

  • Line chart

  • Advanced line chart

  • Bar chart

  • Metric summary table

• Control Panel: The legend labels on bar charts are now clickable.

• Reports: Updated the Instance Configuration report to support filtering of SNMP devices that have never synched or failed a discovery scan.

• Reports: MTTR/ MTTA report improvements:

  • Added the Ack Time and Ack Duration columns.

  • Added Severity filter during report configuration.

• Reports: Added Panopta and FortiMonitor designators to the Agent Status report.

November 9, 2023

• OnSight 100F: Updated the hardware OnSight upgrade logic in the Control Panel to show the correct upgrade version.

November 2, 2023

• Infrastructure Map UI improvements.

October 26, 2023

• No new features in this release.

October 19, 2023

• Fabric integration: Added support for port tagging on Fabric network devices.
  

• Fabric integration: The VDOM name is now included in FortiGate SNMP IPSec metric provisioning.

• OnSight vCollector: Expanded OnSight support for manifest files.

  • Define and apply auto-discovery rules and frequency

  • Configure heartbeat rules

  • Enable CounterMeasures

  • Support for the Templates, Tags, and partner_server_ID parameters

October 12, 2023

• No new features in this release.

October 5, 2023

• OnSight vCollector: The OnSight can now be upgraded from the Control Panel. To perform an upgrade, go to the OnSight's page then locate the Upgrade OnSight option.

• Metrics: Changed the description of the FortiAP Status metric from numeric value to match the text value selected when configuring the threshold.

• CounterMeasures: Updated the OnSight-based CounterMeasures metadata to include additional FQDNs/ IPs.

September 21, 2023

• Control Panel: Increased the clickable area of main navigation menu items.
  

• Templates: The option to select raw values or percentage thresholds when creating network device templates from scratch is now supported.
  

• Security Fabric: Fabric templates can now be created from imported Fabric devices.

September 14, 2023

• Metrics: Added the Percent option for the fmSysMemUsage and fmSysDiskUsage metric thresholds.

• Kubernetes: Kubernetes containers and pods can now be filtered by name using attributes during onboarding.

September 7, 2023

• Templates: Fabric templates now support SD-WAN health metrics.

• Metrics: When updating the value of a port speed, the port speed value that was previously set is now displayed.
  

• API: API support for recently added Fabric and VMware metrics.

• OnSight: Added a logic to prevent moving checks on OnSights within an HA Group to prevent duplicates from being created.

August 31, 2023

• Synthetic checks: UI improvements to the Browser Synthetic (Multistep) drawer.

• Multi-tenancy: The Account Usage page in the main account of a multi-tenant setup now explicitly states that the date included aggregated sub-tenant usage.

• Control panel: Renamed the Scheduled navigation menu item to Schedules & History.
  

August 24, 2023

• API: The API can now be used to enable sub-tenant accounts to use the notification schedules of a master tenant account.

• API: The Delete command can now be used on the /contact_group API endpoint.

• Metrics: Added support for additional FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer metrics.

• UI improvements to instance flyouts and tooltips.

August 17, 2023

• OnSight: Improved performance for metric polling via FortiManager proxies.

• VMware integration:VMware versions numbers are now captured and displayed.

August 10, 2023

• No new features in this release.

August 3, 2023

• Multi-tenancy: Added support for requiring SSO for all subtenants in a FortiMonitor brand.

July 27, 2023

• Metrics: The SSL certificate expiry check now supports selecting the TCP port against which a check is made.

July 20, 2023

• Reports: Expanded the Date Range option on SD-WAN reports.
  

• FortiMonitor Agent: Updated the Windows quick install instructions in the control panel to instruct users to enable support for TLS 1.2 prior to running the installation command.
  

• Security Fabric: Added support for Multi-VDOM in Fabric integrations (FortiOS 7.4 and later).

• Security Fabric: Added support for synching the names of Fabric instances which are being discovered and renamed.

July 13, 2023

• Control Panel: UI improvements to the left navigation drawer.

June 22, 2023

• Control Panel navigation menu UI redesign

• Fabric integration: Improved the detection and display of offline Fabric devices.

June 15, 2023

• SNMP: Added support for device detection for Kyocera printers when monitored via SNMP.

• Integrations: Updated the OpsGenie integration to properly work with the latest OpsGenie APIs.

• OnSight vCollector: Updated the OnSight installer to add support for RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.6-8.8.

• Cloud integrations: Added a warning banner on cloud instances to show when the related cloud integration used to poll their metrics is invalid or unable to connect.
  

• API: Updated the API endpoint for creating customers to make the partner_key parameter required.

• Maintenance periods: Removed the option to pause monitoring entirely during maintenance periods due to performance impact on maintenance activation and resolution.

June 1, 2023

• Instance Details page: The SSL Tunnels tab which shows the SSL tunnels and session data is now available for SNMP FortiGate instances.
  

• Dashboards: Removed the error icon from individual counter widgets (Infrastructure Counter, Active Incident Counter, etc.). These have been replaced with a single banner. Refreshing the page updates the widgets and removes the banner.
  

May 25, 2023

• No new features in this release.

May 18, 2023

• Alerting: Reworked user interface for configuring heartbeats (agent, SNMP, Fabric, etc.) to make it clearer what will happen when the heartbeat incident is created. For more information, see Assign Alert Timelines.
  

• Maintenance periods: Improved the validation logic to give a cleaner error when trying to delete a maintenance period that is currently active.

• VMware integration: Improved the logic to prevent VMware integrations from falling into a deleted status when editing with an invalid credential.

• Application monitoring: Updated the application logos.

May 11, 2023

• Metrics: Added support for SSL certificate expiration monitoring. For more information, see SSL expiration check.

• Security Fabric: Improvements to Fabric heartbeat monitoring.

• FortiMonitor Agent: Updated the Windows FortiManager Agent installation script so that when a Panopta Agent is detected, the script will abort the installation process. This prevents two separate versions of the Windows Agent from being installed. For more information, see Migrating a Panopta Agent configuration to FortiMonitor Agent.

• Network devices: You can now add attributes to network devices during the onboarding process.
  

May 4, 2023

• Templates: Improved the performance of bulk template applications.

• SNMP: Re-applying a template now updates the label of existing metrics based on the label OID.

• Security Fabric: Fabric discovery frequency can now be customized or disabled.
  

• VMware integration: Updated the VMware re-discovery logic to allow the creation of instances. Deleted instances can now also be restored.
  
  

April 27, 2023

• Network devices: Added support for SNMP device type identification to allow categorization of instances by their type (firewall, switch, etc.).

• Security Fabric: Added support for monitoring FortiGate high availability (HA) clusters.

  • Detection and alerting support for cluster member incidents.

  • Support for Fabric setups where the FortiGates are configured in an HA cluster with FortiGate Clustering Protocol (FGCP) and share a single IP address.

  • The FortiGate Instance Details page now displays the serial numbers of all of its members.

  • Cluster metric information is now available in the Performance tab.
    

April 20, 2023

• Security Fabric: Improved the handling of certain error states with the FortiManager integration.

• Security Fabric: Added support for FortiGate conserve mode by adding a default alert threshold for FortiGate instances for memory consumption at the conserve mode threshold.

• Security Fabric: Improvements to how downstream FortiGate ports are determined.

• Security Fabric: Several UI and process improvements to the Fabric discovery process.

  • Added a badge to show when discovery is actively running.

  • Added onboarding error states.

  • Changed the placeholder in the Default Port field to 443.

  • Added the Polling Status column to show if there are heartbeat incidents.
    

• SD-WAN synthetics: SD-WAN names are now displayed on the OnSight page if an SD-WAN configuration exists.

• Alerting: Added new logic to limit the count of email, SMS, and voice alerts sent in situations where a customer has a very large number of simultaneous incidents.

• Monitoring policies: Added support for continually adding new metrics on data collection when applying a template using the Monitoring Policy Workflow.
  

April 13, 2023

• Infrastructure Map: Instance icons in Infrastructure Map drawers are now using more specific icons for Fabric instances.

• Monitoring policies: The options in the monitoring policy conditions list are now categorized by type. This makes it easier to choose the correct condition when creating a ruleset.
  

• Security Fabric: Updated the Fabric onboarding process to detect issues and provide contextual warnings for easier troubleshooting.
  

April 6, 2023

• Network device monitoring: Updated the maximum number of network devices that can be added using the Bulk Entry option to 10.

• OnSight: OnSight versions 2020.68 and newer can now be upgraded from the control panel. For more information, see 2020.68 or newer OnSight versions.

March 30, 2023

• API: Added API filtering support for /onsight and /onsight_group endpoints.

• API: Improved validation around setting geo-location information on instances via the API.

• Instance Details page: SNMP network devices now show the last device discovery time on the Instance Details page

• Alerting: On-call schedules now properly display iCal link to download scheduled entries.

• API: Improved logging for multi-tenant users suspending or deleting customers via API.

• Dashboards: The Fabric Topology widget now supports the following Fabric integrations:

  • Fabric 7.x OnSight proxy

  • Fabric 6.x OnSight proxy

  • Fabric integration via FortiManager proxy

• Security Fabric: The FortiManager Fabric integration now supports the following Fortinet devices:

  • SD-WAN

  • FortiSwitch

  • FortiAP

  • FortiExtender

March 23, 2023

• Multi-tenancy: Restored the Assume user identity option for multi-tenant administrators when switching tenants.

• Security Fabric: Account usage section in the control panel now correctly shows the Fabric instance usage.

• Security Fabric: Added Fabric Heartbeat to metric type filters in the Incident Hub.

• Security Fabric: Updated the FortiLink Status metric to appear under the FortiSwitch category when configuring Fabric templates.

March 16, 2023

• DEM: Added support for bulk metric deletion.
  

• NCM: Network Configuration Management keys are now visible on the Instance Details page.
  

• Security Fabric: The IP addresses of Fabric devices when using the FortiManager proxy are now stored. This enables these Fabric instances to be the target of synthetic monitoring checks or NCM management.

• Security Fabric: FortiManager Fabric integration now supports FortiExtender. This allows discovery of FortiExtender devices and provisioning of metrics. Note that FortiOS 7.2.1 or later is required.

March 9, 2023

• Security Fabric: Completed verification of Fabric integration support for FortiOS 7.2.4.

• Application monitoring: Added FortiGate/ SD-WAN health and incident information to DEM application map tooltips.

• Integrations: Optimized the rendering of the cloud provider page when large numbers of cloud integrations are in place.

March 2, 2023

• Application monitoring: Added support for default applications. Default applications are preconfigured checks for common applications such as Salesforce or Zoom.
  
  

  For more information, see Application monitoring and Add an application.

  Metric heartbeat: Added support for user-defined metric level heartbeat alerting.
  This allows users to control which metrics receive heartbeat alerts.

• SNMP: Support for additional SNMP device information data for Fortinet devices.