View Cloud NGFW Metrics in Azure Monitor
Cloud NGFW for Azure integrates with the Azure Monitor to provide enhanced visibility
into the performance and operational health of your firewall resources. By leveraging Azure
Application Insights, you can ingest, query, and set alerts on key firewall metrics, all
within your existing Azure ecosystem.
| Where Can I Use This? | What Do I Need? |
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- Cloud NGFW subscription
- Palo Alto Networks Customer Support Portal account
- Azure Marketplace subscription
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Cloud NGFW for Azure integrates with the Azure Monitor to provide enhanced
visibility into the performance and operational health of your firewall resources. By
leveraging Azure Application Insights, you can ingest, query, and set alerts on key
firewall metrics, all within your existing Azure ecosystem. This allows you to monitor
critical data points such as throughput, session counts, SNAT port utilization, and
latency to better troubleshoot issues and understand traffic patterns.
The following tables details the metrics that are exposed through the Azure
Monitor integration:
| Dimension | Metric | Description |
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| Data Processed | Bytes in / Bytes out | Monitors the traffic in terms of bytes in and bytes
out. |
| Packets in / Packets out | Monitors the traffic in terms of the number of packets sent
in both directions. |
| Session Count | Number of active sessions. |
| Throughput | Session ThroughputKbps | Monitors the throughput in Kbps. |
| Session ThroughputPps | Monitors the number of packets per second. |
| Latency | PacketLatency | Monitors the latency per packet sent and received to
understand the overall traffic performance in terms of delay. |
| SNAT | Load Balancer Source NAT port utilization | Exposes SNAT port utilization from the Load Balancer as a
metric. |
