Analyze Metric Capacity

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Analyze Metric Capacity

Learn how to use the Capacity Analyzer feature.

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From Strata Cloud Manager, navigate to MonitorCapacity Analyzer to analyze and monitor your devices' resource capacity by keeping track of their metrics usage based on their model types. You can analyze metrics using the following methods:

Analyze Metric Capacity based on Metric, Model, and Device
Analyze Metric Capacity Based on Based on Device Models
Analyze Metric Capacity Based on Metrics

Capacity Analyzer is enhanced to support alerts that help you to anticipate resource consumption nearing its maximum capacity and raise alerts. See Manage Capacity Analyzer Alerts.

The Capacity Analyzer feature is not supported for the VM Series firewalls.

Analyze Metric Capacity based on Metric, Model, and Device

On the Capacity Analyzer Heatmap, hover your cursor over a cell to view the metric capacity usage for all devices belonging to the corresponding device model.
In this example, the pop-up window displays the ARP table size metric capacity for all the devices that belong to the PA-220 model.
Click a cell corresponding to the device model and the metric to check the capacity usage. In this example, we are clicking the ARP table size for the PA-220 device model.

You can view the following:
- ARP table size metric capacity for all devices belonging to the PA-220 model.
- Select one of the host names to view the metric capacity trend.
- Alerts raised for the metric and predicted date when the metric will reach its maximum capacity.
- Predicted trend for the metric. Strata Cloud Manager forecasts the date when the metric will hit the maximum capacity. You can hover your cursor over the graph to check the metric capacity at any specific point of time.

Analyze Metric Capacity Based on Device Models

From the Capacity Analyzer heat map, select a device model to view all its associated metrics.

Each row displays a metric's utilized capacity, indicating the number of resources used for that metric in a device. Additionally, you can view the alerts raised for the metric and predicted date when the metric will reach its maximum capacity.
In the Capacity Analyzer table, select a metric to view its trend on a device.
Select a device to view the metric trend for it.
You can select the Prediction Time to check the predicted trend for the metric. Strata Cloud Manager forecasts the date when the metric will hit the maximum capacity.
You can hover your cursor over the graph to check the metric capacity at any specific point of time.

Under Alert Name, you can view the alerts raised for the address objects metric corresponding to a host name.

Analyze Metric Capacity Based on Metrics

From the Capacity Analyzer heat map, select a metric to view its capacity in all the devices in a tabular format. In this example, the ARP table size metric is selected.

You can also select a metric type and drill down to a metric to view its capacity in all the devices in a tabular format. For example, Configuration Resource type metric > Objects > Address Objects.

Each row displays the ARP table size metric’s used and unused capacity for every host under device models. Additionally, you can view the alerts raised for this metric for every host and the predicted date when the metric will reach its maximum capacity.
Select a host name to view the graphical trend of the selected metric.
You can select the Prediction Time to check the predicted trend for the metric. Strata Cloud Manager forecasts the date when the metric will hit the maximum capacity.

You can hover your cursor over the graph to check the metric capacity at any specific point of time.