Technical Tip: VIP hit count in the GUI is 0 when the traffic is passing

[Nik_Aiman]

Description	This article describes that if the VIP is a member of a VIPGRP, the GUI will not show the hit count on the VIP list.
Scope	FortiGate.
Solution	When the configured VIP security policy contains a VIP Group object, the VIP object's hit count will show 0 even though there is a hit count in the firewall policy. Firewall Policy with VIP group address:   VIP Object ‘hit count’ is 0: It is an expected behavior. Alternatively, the hit count can be retrieved using the CLI via the below command: diagnose firewall iprope show 100000 <VIP ID> Example: diagnose firewall iprope show 100000 1 idx=1 hit count:13 (9 0 0 4 0 0 0 0)     first hit:2024-04-01 12:17:34 last hit:2024-04-19 14:38:21 Workaround: Use the VIP object in the firewall policy instead of the VIP group: Once the traffic hits the policy which uses the VIP object, the hit count will be increase: