Overview

This integration offers visibility into your Fortinet environment by collecting metrics for SD-WAN, device performance, and traffic logs, for Network Device Monitoring.

SD-WAN Performance Monitoring

SD-WAN Performance Monitoring provides insights into the overall health and performance of your Fortinet SD-WAN infrastructure, allowing for proactive management and quick identification of issues impacting network performance.

With automatic discovery of FortiGate devices, this integration pulls in metadata to enable detailed analysis by location, device type, and other dimensions.

Device Health Monitoring

Device Health Monitoring tracks the status and resource utilization of FortiGate devices managed by FortiManager, ensuring optimal device performance and availability across your network infrastructure.

Security Analytics

Security Analytics provides detailed visibility into security events and traffic patterns, helping to identify threats and ensure compliance with security policies.

Logs

In addition to metrics, alert and traffic logs can be collected. Search your Datadog logs with source:fortinet-fortimanager. If you installed the integration correctly, you should be able to see Fortinet event and traffic logs from FortiGate devices.

Setup

Installation

1. In Datadog, open the Fortinet FortiManager integration tile.
2. Click Add Account.
3. Choose a name for your FortiManager account.
4. Follow the instructions below to configure the integration.

Configuration

Create a FortiManager JSON API Admin

1. Log in to your FortiManager instance.
2. Navigate to System Settings and then Admin Profiles.
3. Select Create New to create a new admin profile with a type of System Admin and assign Read-Only permissions to all of the options.
4. Navigate to Administrators and then select + Create New and choose Administrator.
5. Assign the admin profile created earlier to this user and save the username and password to a secure location. These credentials are required to set up the integration in Datadog.

Find Your API Host

Locate the API Host by checking the URL of your FortiManager. It could be an IP address or a custom domain.

Metrics and Event Logs Collection

1. Enter a unique identifying name for the FortiManager account in Datadog.
2. Paste in the API Host, username, and password obtained in the steps above.

This enables Datadog to collect metrics and event logs.

Data Collected

Metrics

Logs

This integration also collects alert and event logs including:

• FortiGate Device Status Events
• Security Policy Events
• VPN Status Events
• System Configuration Events
• User Authentication Events
• Threat Detection Events
• Traffic Analysis Logs

Service Checks

FortiNet FortiManager does not include any service checks.

Events

FortiNet FortiManager does not include any events.

Troubleshooting

Need help? Contact Datadog support.