Retention period for traffic logs on Panorama

[ghostrider]

Hello Experts

What is the rention period for traffic logs on Panorama, I mean how many days it will keep the traffic logs from firewall. Actually I need to do the harden the security rules by looking the traffic logs.

[TranceforLife]

Hi,

My guess it is similar way to the firewall, depend on your disk space configuration:

https://live.paloaltonetworks.com/t5/Management-Articles/How-to-Determine-How-Much-Disk-Space-is-All...

But l might be wrong as don't have a Panorama in the production

[reaper]

Log retention depends on several factors:

-amount of storage available

-log volume

once your log storage is depleted, panorama will automatically prune old logs to make room for fresh logs

you can customize the size of each logdb if needed (beware: changing the quota will purge the existing db)

you can check the quota :

> show system logdb-quota

[ghostrider]

Hi @reaper

Thanks but can you please give me some commands to check for how long logs are there. I would like to keep security policies logs at least for 6 months. What I can do? Just increase the log storage but how much? Any pointer will be highly appreciated 

[reaper · Accepted solution]

the 'show system logdb-quota command will tell you how much retention you are currently reaching:

.....

Disk usage:

traffic: Logs and Indexes: 1.1G Current Retention: 181 days

threat: Logs and Indexes: 3.5G Current Retention: 854 days

system: Logs and Indexes: 2.1G Current Retention: 1350 days

config: Logs and Indexes: 1.3G Current Retention: 1323 days

......

if there's room to change quotas around you can, but if that's not an option and you require more space, you can opt to add log collectors to your environment which come with far larger storage capacity and can be clustered to expand even further (the 'M' platform)