Missing Filter feature in GUI for FortiSwitch Ports

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The per-port stats aren't gone, the table-level filter is. What you lost is the ability to filter/sort the FortiSwitch Ports list by the Packets (sent/received) and Errors (sent/received) columns. The underlying counters are still there, just relocated to the dedicated statistics view. Double-click a port (or select it and click View Statistics, top right) to open the Port Statistics pane, which shows transmitted and received traffic, frame errors by type, and transmitted and received frames, refreshed every 15 seconds, with a Compare with dropdown to put two ports side by side. That pane is documented through 7.6.5, so the data path is intact; the 7.6.x rework of the FortiSwitch Ports page just dropped those metrics as filterable table columns.

It reads as an unintended regression, not a documented removal. It isn't listed in the 7.6.6 release notes as a changed-default or known behavior, and you already checked, so this is almost certainly a UI regression introduced in the 7.6 managed-switch page redesign rather than a deliberate feature cut. That distinction matters because it means the realistic outcome is a fix or a feature-restoration request, not "this is the new normal."

Stop depending on the GUI table for this anyway. Two better paths, both version-proof against GUI churn:

• CLI for ad-hoc checks. On the FortiGate, the diagnose switch-controller switch-info family gives managed-switch port state, and for raw counters you connect into the managed FortiSwitch itself (execute switch-controller switch-connect <switch-id>) and read the FortiSwitchOS per-port stats. Verify the exact subcommand against your FortiSwitchOS build, the syntax drifts between versions.
• SNMP for anything ongoing. The FortiSwitch port counters (packets and errors, in/out) are exposed via SNMP, which is what you actually want for trend data and alerting. A GUI table that resets and can't graph history was never the right tool for spotting error rates anyway. Poll it into whatever you already run for monitoring.