Insights:
Capacity Analyzer
Learn how to analyze and monitor your devices' resource capacity.
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→ The features and capabilities available to you in Strata Cloud Manager depend on which license(s) you are
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Capacity Analyzer allows you to analyze and monitor your devices' resource capacity by
keeping track of their metrics usage based on their model types. Capacity Analyzer
provides the following benefits:
A comprehensive understanding of the existing metric utilization and
the unutilized metric capacity up to the maximum limit.
A heatmap visualization that showcases metrics usage with respect to
the hardware platforms in a single view and helps drill-down into details.
The ability to plan for upgrading to higher capacity firewalls based on
your specific needs.
The Capacity Analyzer feature is not supported for the
VM Series firewalls.
The Capacity Analyzer feature displays
capacity insights and its incidents only after its AI/ML model has studied
current and past usage. This process requires a minimum of 7 days of
telemetry data.
Capacity Analyzer is enhanced to support
alerts that help you to anticipate resource
consumption nearing its maximum capacity and trigger timely notifications. The Capacity
Analyzer alerts are generated three months in advance identifying potential capacity
bottlenecks. This helps you to plan configuration cleanup or upsize NGFW capacities
before they hit maximum usage and maintain system stability. See
Premium Health Alerts for the list of
supported Capacity alerts.
Capacity Analyzer supports the following metrics:
- Configuration resource metrics:
- ARP table size
- GlobalProtect™ Clientless VPN
- IKE Peers
- VPN Tunnels
- Address Objects
- Address Groups
- FQDN Address
- Service Objects
- Service Groups
- NAT Policies
- Security Policies
- Virtual Systems (Count)
- System resource metrics:
- Dataplane (DP) CPU
- Management Plane (MP) CPU
- MP Memory
- Traffic resource metrics:
- Concurrent Decryption Sessions
- Sessions Table Utilization
The heatmap shows metrics usage for every device. The darker color represents a higher
utilization and the lighter color indicates a lower utilization. By default, the
Multicolor View is selected. You can switch to the
Monochrome View as well.
Here are the different ways in which you can use the Capacity Analyzer heatmap to obtain
information about metric usage:
