Technical Tip: How to generate - Throughput Utilization Billing Report
Description
This article describes how to generate a Throughput Utilization Billing Report in FortiAnalyzer. Applicable to FortiManager with FortiAnalyzer feature enabled.
Scope
FortiAnalyzer v7.0, v7.2, v7.4, and above.
Solution
- Log in to FortiAnalyzer from CLI and configure the following:
config system log interface-stats set billing-report enable set status enable end
There are more options available under the FortiAnalyzer interface-stats.
config sys log interface-stats (interface-stats)# get billing-report : enable retention-days : 100 sampling-interval : 1200 status : enable Note:
The sampling interval is the interval at which data from FortiGates is received at the interface in seconds—Min 300 Max 86400 - Default 1200 (20 mins). Decreasing sampling interval might impact the FortiGate performance.
Before running this report, billing must be enabled for 24 hours or longer.
- Find the 'Throughput Utilization Billing Report':
A specific or multiple interface(s) can be configured (only interfaces with Role set to WAN will show):
- Run the report, and it will show the graph.
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Troubleshooting Tip: Empty ReportsThroughput utilization billing reporting
