Technical Tip: FortiView dashboard is not displaying the historical traffic
Description
This article describes that when attempting to view traffic for the past 5 minutes, 1 hour, or 24 hours, no traffic history is displayed in FortiGate's FortiView Dashboard.
Scope
FortiGate.
Solution
Enable Local logs and historical FortiView logs under the log settings on the FortiGate unit. The FortiGate can only generate historical traffic information if the source data is stored in the unit's database.
Note: If the device does not support a Log hard disk is not possible to enable the Historical FortiView.
get system status
Log hard disk: Not available <--
FortiGate Devices without local storage will require remote logging. To view historical traffic, a data source (FortiAnalyzer, FortiAnalyzer Cloud, FortiGate Cloud) needs to be configured for the selected time period to log device/devices.
In the top right corner, an icon with three lines can be selected to open the 'Settings' page of the Dashboard Widget for FortiView:
In the pop-up window, the necessary settings can be configured as shown below to view historical FortiView traffic data :
