Usage
The Usage page gives you a clear overview of how your account has been used over time. It breaks down usage for each month of service, helping you easily identify your usage patterns and detect any overages in your account without delay.
This page will include different statistics depending on your contract type, which is in this case determined by the avenue from which you have purchased your contract.
Fortinet and FortiFlex
Account Usage graph
This bar chart displays your account's bandwidth usage history over a period of up to a year. Simply hover over a bar representing a specific month to view the exact usage figures for that month.
Usage table
This table further breaks down the statistics for each month displayed in the Account Usage chart.
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Description |
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Contract Type |
This field specifies the channel you used to subscribe to FortiWeb Cloud, such as Fortinet or FortiFlex. |
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95th percentile bandwidth |
FortiWeb Cloud measures each account using a burstable model for overall account bandwidth calculation. The model is based on calculating the 95th percentile of bandwidth usage of clean traffic and is also common with other CDNs and Cloud solutions. The 95th percentile bandwidth is calculated in the following way: Traffic for the entire month is measured in 5 minute buckets. At the end of the month, the 5% of buckets with the most Mbps are dropped, and the highest Mbps rate of the remaining buckets represents the 95th percentile value for the account. At the beginning of every month, the 95th percentile bandwidth shown in FortiWeb Cloud might be very low, or even shown as 0. This is because there aren't enough 5-minute buckets collected to calculate a valid value. At the end of the month with more buckets generated, the value becomes more accurate. |
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Purchased Bandwidth |
The bandwidth included in your contract. |
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Overage Usage |
The data consumption exceeding your contracted limit. |
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Status |
Open: The period is ongoing, and information collection is in progress. Closed: The period has ended, and informatione collection is complete. |
Click on any row in this table to view a line graph illustrating usage trends for the selected month, along with the point when you reached the 95th percentile of bandwidth. These statistics can assist you in monitoring your usage habits and determining the appropriate amount of bandwidth to purchase in the future
AWS, GCP, and Azure
For contracts on AWS, GCP, and Azure, where bandwidth is unlimited, statistics regarding purchased bandwidth are not applicable.
Account Usage graph
This bar chart displays your account's data usage history over a period of up to a year.
Usage table
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Field |
Description |
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Contract Type |
This field specifies the channel you used to subscribe to FortiWeb Cloud, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. |
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Data Used |
The amount of data (in GB) utilized in a given month. |
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Status |
Open: The period is ongoing, and information collection is in progress. Closed: The period has ended, and information collection is complete. |
Click on any row in this table to view a bar graph illustrating daily usage trends for the selected month.