Dashboard: Application Usage
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Dashboard: Application Usage

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Dashboard: Application Usage

The Application Usage Dashboard gives you visibility into the applications in use in your network, and helps you to focus in on controlling unsanctioned and risky applications.
Where Can I Use This?
What Do I Need?
  • Prisma Access (Cloud Management)
  • Prisma Access (Panorama Managed)
  • NGFW (PAN-OS or Panorama Managed)
  • NGFW (Cloud Managed)
  • VM-Series, funded with Software NGFW Credits
  • AIOps for NGFW Free (use the AIOps for NGFW Free app)
    or
    AIOps for NGFW Premium license (use the Strata Cloud Manager app)
    license
  • Cortex Data Lake
    license
  • A role that has permission to view the dashboard
  • Prisma Access
    license
  • Click
    Dashboards
    More Dashboards
    Application Usage
    to get started.

What does this dashboard show you?

The dashboard shows aggregated data per Cortex Data Lake tenant.
Application Usage data includes:
  • An overview of the applications on your network, including risk, sanction status, bandwidth consumed, and the top users of these applications.
  • Most used application types
  • Applications with the most data transfer
  • The top application types on your network
  • The most heavily used applications on your network
  • The users with the most applications
  • The users with the most data transfer
  • Applications that use non-standard ports
If an app is a container app, then the displayed statistics are a roll-up of all the applications in the container. For example, gmail is a container app (there is no app-id for gmail). It groups applications such as gmail-posting, gmail-downloading, gmail-uploading, and so forth. The risk score set for this container app is the highest risk score found for the contained applications. All other metrics are calculated by summing the values found for the contained applications.
The
sanctioned apps
you see in this dashboard are apps with the sanctioned tag; go to
Strata Cloud Manager
Manage
Objects
Applications
to see your sanctioned apps or to tag apps as sanctioned.

Tag Sanctioned Apps

To monitor the activity of apps on your network in your Application Usage dashboard, you must identify whether they are sanctioned or unsanctioned.
  1. Go to manage your configuration and select
    Strata Cloud Manager
    Manage
    Objects
    Applications
    .
  2. Click the application
    Name
    to edit an application and select
    Edit
    in the Tag section.
  3. Select
    Sanctioned
    from the
    Tags
    drop-down.
    You must use the predefined
    Sanctioned
    tag. If you use any other tag to indicate that you sanctioned an application, the tag won’t be recognized and the report will be inaccurate.
  4. Click
    OK
    and
    Close
    to exit all open dialogs.

How can you use the data from the dashboard?

Know the security challenges associated with the applications traversing your network. Application Usage findings can help you to refine your security policy to control unsanctioned and risky applications.
This dashboard supports reports. These icons, in the top right of a dashboard indicate that reports are supported for this dashboard. You can share, download, and schedule reports that cover the data this dashboard displays.

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