What kind of alerts does FortiAnalyzer generate?

FortiAnalyzer generates system-generated alerts when specific trigger conditions are met. This involves the ability to monitor various system activities, performance metrics, and event logs to detect predefined conditions that warrant an alert. These alerts can encompass a wide range of scenarios, including security incidents, unusual behavior, configuration changes, or compliance issues.

This capability is crucial for proactive network management and security oversight, enabling administrators to respond quickly to potential threats and operational issues. By being reliant on trigger conditions established through the system’s monitoring configurations, these alerts ensure that users are informed of significant events that affect the performance and security of their network environments.

In contrast, alerts that are limited to only hardware failures do not encompass the full range of possible alerts that FortiAnalyzer is designed to provide. User-defined alerts based solely on IP addresses might be too narrow and not utilize the full context and richness of the data FortiAnalyzer can monitor. Real-time alerts for network traffic, while valuable, are just a subset of the broader category of system-generated alerts that can include many other factors and conditions as determined by the system's configuration.