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Article Id 264020
Description This article describes how to view website bandwidth utilization based on website domain and website category.
Scope FortiGate.
Solution

Verify connectivity to the FortiGuard server to ensure web-filtering works properly. 

Connectivity can be checked under System -> FortiGuard as shown below.

 

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Navigate to the web-filter profile under security profile. Create a new profile or edit an existing profiles to monitor the websites.

Change the category action to Monitor and save the profile.

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Apply the web filter profile on the firewall policy after completing the aforementioned steps.

 

Logging should be enabled for all sessions in the firewall policy as seen below:

 

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The results, as shown below, will be an overview of domain, category, browsing time, and the session count for each particular website.

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