Advanced URL Filtering
Cloud Managed
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Monitoring Web Activity (Strata Cloud Manager)
Strata Cloud Manager
)Regardless of the interface you’re using to manage
Prisma Access
(Panorama or Strata Cloud Manager
), the Activity pane in Strata Cloud Manager
provides a
comprehensive view of what’s happening in your network. Various dashboards compose the Activity pane,
which is available in the Strata Cloud Manager
and Device Insights application. You
can also share Activity data with other users in your organization.The following interactive dashboards
help you monitor and analyze web activity on your network:
- —A holistic view of all threats that Advanced URL Filtering and other Palo Alto Networks security services detected and blocked in your network. You can view threat trends, impacted applications, users, and Security policy rules that are allowing or blocking threats.
- —Your logs provide an audit trail for system, configuration, and network events. Jump from an Activity dashboard to your logs to get details and investigate findings.
- —See an overview of the applications on your network, including their risk, sanction status, bandwidth consumed, and the top users of these applications.
- Executive Summary (—See which URL categories account for the most web activity in your network, the top 10 malicious URLs, and top 10 high-risk URLs.URL Filtering)
- —See individual users’ browsing patterns: their most frequently visited sites, the sites with which they’re transferring data, and attempts to access high-risk sites. The data from your URL Filtering logs and the Cloud Identity Engine enable this visibility.
- To access user activity data and share reports easily and securely, we recommend activating and configuring the Cloud Identity Engine.
Additional Visibility
and Methods of Monitoring:
- The Reports pane includes options for scheduling report delivery or downloading and sharing a report at any time for offline viewing.
- You can also Search for a security artifact (an IP address, domain, URL, or file hash) to interact with data just for that artifact, drawn from both your network and global threat intelligence findings.
- Open an Activity dashboard.
- Select .To view the executive summary for URL Filtering, you’ll need to click the URL Filtering tab upon landing on the dashboard.
- To access the Log Viewer, select .