| When traffic is being evaluated and processed by a firewall policy, statistics such as hit count and byte count are collected and recorded as highlighted in this document: Seven-day rolling counter for policy hit counters. The statistics are being derived from the statistics of the following command: diagnose firewall iprope show 100004 <firewall policy ID> Sample: Juara-kvm02 # diagnose firewall iprope show 100004 1
idx:1
pkts:680 (680 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
bytes:641040 (641040 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
asic_pkts:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
asic_bytes:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
flag:0x0
hit count:16 (16 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
first hit:2025-07-07 15:51:36 last hit:2025-07-07 15:52:11
established session count:0
first est:2025-07-07 15:51:36 last est:2025-07-07 15:52:11 The same information can be observed in the GUI firewall policy: 
However, Hairpin NAT traffic will not be recorded as the traffic did not leave FortiGate: session info: proto=6 proto_state=01 duration=321 expire=3593 timeout=3600 flags=00000000 socktype=0 sockport=0 av_idx=0 use=5
origin-shaper=
reply-shaper=
per_ip_shaper=
class_id=0 ha_id=0 policy_dir=0 tunnel=/ vlan_cos=0/255
state=may_dirty
statistic(bytes/packets/allow_err): org=2408/14/1 reply=3265/12/1 tuples=4
tx speed(Bps/kbps): 7/0 rx speed(Bps/kbps): 10/0
orgin->sink: org pre->post, reply pre->post dev=4->4/4->4 gwy=0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
hook=pre dir=org act=dnat 10.251.5.68:64776->10.47.3.118:8443(10.251.3.134:443)
hook=post dir=org act=snat 10.251.5.68:64776->10.251.3.134:443(10.251.3.118:64776)
hook=pre dir=reply act=dnat 10.251.3.134:443->10.251.3.118:64776(10.251.5.68:64776)
hook=post dir=reply act=snat 10.251.3.134:443->10.251.5.68:64776(10.47.3.118:8443)
pos/(before,after) 0/(0,0), 0/(0,0)
misc=0 policy_id=2 pol_uuid_idx=15748 auth_info=0 chk_client_info=0 vd=0
serial=0010b1c0 tos=ff/ff app_list=0 app=0 url_cat=0
rpdb_link_id=00000000 ngfwid=n/a
npu_state=0x000100
no_ofld_reason: npu-flag-off The statistics show that only the policy hit count is recorded: Juara-kvm02 # diagnose firewall iprope show 100004 2
idx:2
pkts:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
bytes:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0) ---> Showing 0 despite active session and hitcount.
asic_pkts:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
asic_bytes:0 (0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
flag:0x0
hit count:42 (42 0 0 0 0 0 0 0)
first hit:2025-07-07 16:42:45 last hit:2025-07-07 18:30:52 
This is an expected behavior for hairpin NAT traffic. | 
