Network > Heavy Connections

CPView Gauges

  1. Run: cpview

  2. From the top, click CPU > Top-Connections > InstancesX-Y > InstanceZ.

  3. Refer to the section Top Connections.

CLI

See the CLI Reference Guide for your version > Chapter "CoreXL Commands" > Section "fw ctl multik" > Section "fw ctl multik print_heavy_conn".

Metric Information

Metric ID

Metric Description

Metric Type

Metric Units

Metric Labels

Metric Label Description

VSX Behavior

network.heavy_connection.packets

Number of packets that were transferred in the connection.

This metric is available in:

Gauge

{packets}

{'start_time', 'conn', 'service', 'identification_time', 'duration', 'instance_load', 'connection_instance_load'}

  • start_time

    The time when the heavy connection started.

  • conn

    The connection tuple - Source IP, Destination IP, Destination Port, and Protocol.

  • service

    Protocol and Port.

  • identification_time

    The time when the connection was recognized as heavy.

  • duration

    For how long the connection lasted, in seconds.

  • instance_load

    The CPU utilization of the CoreXL Firewall instance.

  • connection_instance_load

    The part of the connection in the CPU utilization of the CoreXL Firewall instance.

Different data for each Virtual System.

network.heavy_connection.bytes

Number of bytes that were transferred in the connection.

This metric is available in:

Gauge

{bytes}

{'start_time', 'conn', 'service', 'identification_time', 'duration', 'instance_load', 'connection_instance_load'}

  • start_time

    The time when the heavy connection started.

  • conn

    The connection tuple - Source IP, Destination IP, Destination Port, and Protocol.

  • service

    Protocol and Port.

  • identification_time

    The time when the connection was recognized as heavy.

  • duration

    For how long the connection lasted, in seconds.

  • instance_load

    The CPU utilization of the CoreXL Firewall instance.

  • connection_instance_load

    The part of the connection in the CPU utilization of the CoreXL Firewall instance.

Different data for each Virtual System.