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Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

Paul.Collinson — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 05:47:26 GMT

I've been attempting to create a report requested by a client using the Custom Reports module.

The client is requesting a weekly report, containing 7 days of volume usage broken down by hour. I've managed to get the data I require, using the Traffic Log database, grouping by day - however the Sort By options leaves much to be desired.

Are there any native options to achieve the outcome I'm after?

Re: Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

reaper — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:19:00 GMT

Hi @Paul.Collinson

so you only need total volume per day per hour ?

Re: Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

Raido_Rattameister — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 11:26:08 GMT

If you want to schedule weekly email then ordering is a bit limited indeed.

Try those 2 optins:

- If you review those logs inside Palo then you can click on column name and reorder based on your requirement

- Run weekly report and pull it out with API instead of email and sort it then as required https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/71/pan-os/xml-api/pan-os-xml-api-request-types/get-reports-api

Re: Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

Paul.Collinson — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 01:46:41 GMT

@reaper wrote:
Hi @Paul.Collinson

so you only need total volume per day per hour ?

I was hopeful I could have it cleanly sorted by the hour as well.

@Raido_Rattameister wrote:
If you want to schedule weekly email then ordering is a bit limited indeed.

Try those 2 optins:
- If you review those logs inside Palo then you can click on column name and reorder based on your requirement
- Run weekly report and pull it out with API instead of email and sort it then as required https://www.paloaltonetworks.com/documentation/71/pan-os/xml-api/pan-os-xml-api-request-types/get-reports-api

The API looks to be how I'll need to manage this - Thank you.

Re: Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

reaper — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 09:19:02 GMT

Hi @Paul.Collinson

It appears you can only group per day (but then the hours get sorted in an odd pattern) or group per hour which is even weirder (there is no 'sort' option for hours

You could file a Feature Request with your local sales team to improve granularity and sorting options in reports

There's also the option of exporting reports as CSV/XML which will allow you to set your own sorting mechanisms for the output (the API will come in handy for this)

Re: Custom Report - Generating a Traffic Volume per Hour report, sorted by date/time

DAYANAND — Wed, 15 Aug 2018 13:24:52 GMT

Hi,

We have been creating the similar custom report with time-period 24 hrs, and using some filters vailable.

However I have a few questions that I still need answers for :

1.) There is an option for grouping the traffic log reports based on destination etc.... There is a maximum limit of 500 logs only that it can produce logs for. Does that mean I get only 500 logs from the time of capture ? If I am right what happens to the traffic generated after that ? Is there a way to incerase the limit >500. Because a custome report on Panorama with a limit of 500 means nothing even if I capture hourly.