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View the User Activity Report

Learn how to quickly generate and view user activity reports for users and groups in your organization.
Where can I use this?
What do I need?
  • Prisma Access (Cloud Management)
  • Prisma Access (Panorama Managed)
  • NGFW (Cloud Managed)
  • NGFW (PAN-OS or Panorama Managed)
Notes:
  • Legacy URL filtering licenses are discontinued, but active legacy licenses are still supported.
  • Prisma Access
    usually include Advanced URL Filtering capabilities.
This report provides a quick method of viewing user or group activity and also provides an option to view browse time activity.

Cloud Managed

Whether you're using Panorama or
Strata Cloud Manager
to manage
Prisma Access
, you can go to the
Strata Cloud Manager
app to generate a user activity report. In the app, go to
Activity
to find the
User Activity Report
dashboard. Access to user activity data requires an active Cloud Identity Engine tenant.
  1. Configure a User Activity Report.
    1. Select
      Activity
      User Activity
      .
    2. Enter Username
      to generate a report for one person.
    3. Select the report
      Type
      :
      • Select
        User
        to generate a report for one person.
      • Select
        Group
        for a group of users.
      You must enable User-ID in order to be able to select user or group names. If User-ID is not configured, you can select the type
      User
      and enter the IP address of the user’s computer.
    4. Enter the
      Username/IP Address
      for a user report or enter the group name for a user group report.
    5. Select the time period. You can select an existing time period, or select
      Custom
      .
    6. Select the
      Include Detailed Browsing
      check box, so browsing information is included in the report.
  2. Run the report.
    1. Click
      Run Now
      .
    2. When the firewall finishes generating report, click one of the links to download it:
      • Click
        Download User Activity Report
        to download a PDF version of the report.
      • Click
        Download URL Logs
        to download a CSV file of the corresponding log entries.
    3. After downloading the report, click
      Cancel
      .
    4. If you want to save the user activity report settings so you can run the same report again later, click
      OK
      ; otherwise click
      Cancel
      .
  3. View the user activity report by opening the file that you downloaded. The PDF version of the report shows the user or group on which you based the report, the report time frame, and a table of contents:
  4. Click an item in the table of contents to view the report details. For example, click
    Traffic Summary by URL Category
    to view statistics for the selected user or group.

PAN-OS & Panorama

  1. Configure a User Activity Report.
    1. Select
      Monitor
      PDF Reports
      User Activity Report
      .
    2. Add
      a report and enter a
      Name
      for it.
    3. Select the report
      Type
      :
      • Select
        User
        to generate a report for one person.
      • Select
        Group
        for a group of users.
      You must enable User-ID to be able to select user or group names. If User-ID is not configured, you can select the type
      User
      and enter the IP address of the user’s computer.
    4. Enter the
      Username/IP Address
      for a user report or enter the group name for a user group report.
    5. Select the time period. You can select an existing time period, or select
      Custom
      .
    6. Select the
      Include Detailed Browsing
      check box, so browsing information is included in the report.
  2. Run the report.
    1. Click
      Run Now
      .
    2. When the firewall finishes generating report, click one of the links to download it:
      • Click
        Download User Activity Report
        to download a PDF version of the report.
      • Click
        Download URL Logs
        to download a CSV file of the corresponding log entries.
    3. After downloading the report, click
      Cancel
      .
    4. If you want to save the user activity report settings to run the same report again later, click
      OK
      ; otherwise click
      Cancel
      .
  3. View the user activity report by opening the file that you downloaded. The PDF version of the report shows the user or group on which you based the report, the report time frame, and a table of contents:
  4. Click an item in the table of contents to view the report details. For example, click
    Traffic Summary by URL Category
    to view statistics for the selected user or group.

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