Native Integrations

Fortinet log monitoring with Log360

Overview

ManageEngine Log360 provides complete visibility into your Fortinet devices by collecting, parsing, analyzing, correlating, and archiving logs from Fortinet firewalls and security appliances such as FortiGate.

Whether you’re securing your network perimeter, monitoring VPN access, or detecting web-based threats, Log360 delivers powerful capabilities for real-time threat detection, auditing, compliance reporting, and incident response—all from a centralized SIEM platform.

How Log360 collects and analyzes Fortinet logs

Log360 provides flexible, agentless integration with Fortinet devices, making it simple to ingest and analyze security and traffic events across your Fortinet infrastructure.

Supported collection methods

Syslog-based collection: Fortinet devices forward logs to the Log360 server using standard syslog protocols over UDP (default port 513 and 514), TCP (default port 515), or TLS (typically port 6514). This provides real-time, secure, and efficient log ingestion across your Fortinet infrastructure—without the need for agents or complex configurations.
Custom log parsing: Log360’s log processing engine supports Fortinet’s native log formats, including CSV, key-value pairs, Common Event Format (CEF), and Log Event Extended Format (LEEF). This ensures full compatibility and accurate parsing of traffic, event, security, VPN, and system logs across diverse Fortinet models and configurations.

Log processing pipeline

Once collected, Fortinet logs are parsed, enriched with context (such as user mappings, and threat intelligence), categorized by event type, and securely stored. The processed logs are then available for real-time alerting, advanced correlation, historical forensic analysis, and compliance reporting within the unified Log360 console.

Monitoring capabilities

Log360 collects and analyzes Fortinet logs from various categories.

Traffic logs: All inbound and outbound network traffic, firewall rule matches, and session activity.
Event logs: Hardware status, system-level events, firmware updates, and configuration changes.
Security logs: Threats blocked by antivirus, IDS/IPS, web filtering, and application control modules.
VPN logs: VPN login attempts, session establishment and termination, session duration, and tunnel status.
System logs: CPU and memory usage, interface status, cluster events, and hardware health indicators.
User and admin activity logs: GUI and CLI login events, command execution history, policy changes, and configuration modifications . Also captures device severity levels, firewall account management actions, configuration monitoring events, and firewall policy changes for complete administrative visibility.

Critical Fortinet events monitored

Log360 tracks and provides insights into critical Fortinet network and security activities, including:

IPS/IDS alerts: Detection and blocking of network-based attacks and exploits.
Antivirus and malware detection events: Identification and quarantine of malicious files and payloads.
Denied and anomalous network traffic: Detection of unauthorized access attempts and suspicious traffic patterns.
VPN logon/logoff events and session anomalies: Monitoring of VPN usage, failed authentication attempts, and unusual login patterns.
High CPU/memory usage and interface failures: Alerts on system performance issues and hardware-related failures.
Administrative logins and command executions: Tracking of privileged user activity and CLI/GUI login sessions.
Security policy and configuration modifications: Auditing of firewall rule changes, Network Address Translation (NAT) adjustments, and configuration updates.
Web access to blocked or risky content categories: Analysis of user browsing activity and enforcement of content filtering policies.
Application control violations and unauthorized app usage: Identification of policy violations related to application usage on the network.

Key benefits of integrating Fortinet with Log360

Log360 delivers strategic advantages for organizations monitoring Fortinet environments, including:

Comprehensive log management: Gain a unified view of all Fortinet device logs, along with other network logs, enabling IT and security teams to monitor activity, detect incidents, and manage risk without manual log checks across individual devices.
Real-time threat detection: Detect and respond to attacks using built-in correlation rules, behavior analytics, and integrated threat intelligence to highlight potential intrusions, lateral movement, or policy violations.
Compliance and audit readiness: Out-of-the-box reporting templates help meet regulatory requirements such as the PCI DSS, and the GDPR, as well as HIPAA, SOX, and more. Track access logs, policy changes, VPN usage, and admin activity across your Fortinet environment.
Context-enriched investigations: Correlate Fortinet logs with data from servers, endpoints, AD, databases, and cloud platforms to reconstruct incident timelines and analyze the scope of compromise with greater accuracy.

Addressing Fortinet security challenges

ManageEngine Log360 effectively resolves common security challenges faced in Fortinet. Here's how:

Challenges	How Log360 helps
Disjointed log management	Log360 consolidates logs from all Fortinet firewalls, VPN gateways, security appliances, and other servers and applications into a unified SIEM console. This centralized view eliminates the need to access logs manually from individual devices and ensures end-to-end visibility across your network.
Threats obscured within high-volume network traffic	By parsing and correlating Fortinet traffic and security logs, Log360 detects patterns indicative of malware communication, lateral movement, and intrusion attempts. It leverages built-in threat intelligence feeds and behavioral analytics to surface hidden threats in encrypted or noisy traffic.
Unmonitored or misused VPN connections	Log360 monitors all VPN authentication events and session activities, flagging unusual patterns such as repeated failed logins, logins from geolocations not associated with the user, or simultaneous access from multiple IPs. Alerts help prevent unauthorized access and credential misuse.
Privileged account misuse or misconfigurations	CLI and GUI login events are tracked in real time, with full attribution to specific users. Log360 audits every configuration change—including policy edits, NAT adjustments, and interface modifications—helping to identify administrative errors quickly, privilege abuse, or insider threats.
Inadequate controls for compliance enforcement	Log360 includes a rich set of compliance-ready report templates (for example, the PCI DSS, the GDPR, HIPAA, and SOX) that align Fortinet log data with regulatory control requirements. Scheduled reports and alerting mechanisms ensure continuous compliance monitoring and reduce audit preparation efforts.

The Log360 advantage: Unified security beyond Fortinet logs

While Log360 provides deep, native support for Fortinet log ingestion, its value extends through a unified approach to SIEM and threat detection:

Cross-platform correlation: Fortinet logs are analyzed alongside logs from Windows, Linux, cloud apps, and databases to uncover hidden attack vectors.
Integrated UEBA: Behavioral baselines help identify insider threats and risky user behaviors when Fortinet logs indicate deviations.
Threat intelligence integration: Fortinet events are enriched with global threat feeds to detect connections to malicious IPs or domains.
Single-pane management: A unified console for security analytics, compliance, incident management, and reporting across your hybrid infrastructure.

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