Use External Services for Monitoring

• For immediate notification about important system events or threats, you can Monitor Statistics Using SNMP, Forward Traps to an SNMP Manager, or Configure Email Alerts.
• To send an HTTP-based API request directly to any third-party service that exposes an API to automate a workflow or an action. You can, for example, forward logs that match a defined criteria to create an incidence ticket on ServiceNow instead of relying on an external system to convert syslog messages or SNMP traps to an HTTP request. You can modify the URL, HTTP header, parameters, and the payload in the HTTP request to trigger an action based on the attributes in a firewall log. See Forward Logs to an HTTP(S) Destination.
• For long-term log storage and centralized firewall monitoring, you can Configure Syslog Monitoring to send log data to a syslog server. This enables integration with third-party security monitoring tools such as Splunk or ArcSight.
• For monitoring statistics on the IP traffic that traverses firewall interfaces, you can Configure NetFlow Exports to view the statistics in a NetFlow collector.