About Capacity and Traffic Insights

Capacity issues often develop gradually and only become visible when they begin to impact performance. The Capacity and Trend Analyzer provides visibility into resource utilization across your devices, highlights emerging risks, and predicts when those risks may lead to performance issues. By combining historical trends with predictive insights, it enables you to anticipate problems and take action before they affect users. This feature enables proactive capacity planning by identifying future risks before they impact system performance.

How AIOps generates capacity insights

Forecasted insights predict future resource utilization based on historical trends and patterns. AIOps continuously analyzes historical data and runs periodic forecasts to identify when resources are likely to reach configured thresholds.

AIOps uses multiple analytical approaches to identify and predict issues. AIOps runs forecasts on a recurring weekly basis to identify potential capacity risks in advance, including:

  • Detect threshold breaches: Identifies when CPU or memory usage exceeds configured limits in real time.

  • Detect anomalies: Identifies unusual deviations from expected behavior based on historical patterns.

  • Detect elephant flows: Detects large traffic flows that can impact system performance and resource utilization.

  • Detect Remote Access VPN session limits: Detects or predicts when VPN session capacity limits are reached.

  • Forecast capacity risks: Predicts future threshold breaches using historical trends, enabling proactive planning.

Note

  • The accuracy of insights depends on the availability and quality of historical data. Limited or inconsistent data may delay or reduce insight accuracy.

  • In environments with limited activity or newly onboarded devices, insights and forecasts may take time to appear.

Key features

Key features of Capacity and Trend Analyzer

Feature

Description

Capacity insights dashboard

Provides a fleet-level view of device capacity status, displaying past, current, and predicted capacity insights across all monitored devices.

Capacity insights

Generates insights based on CPU, memory, connection, throughput, and VPN session activity to highlight potential resource constraints.

Device capacity analysis

Displays detailed capacity insights for an individual device, including resource metrics, AI-generated summaries, and forecast information.

Predictive capacity forecasting

Uses historical resource utilization data to predict future usage trends and identify potential capacity risks before thresholds are reached.

Timeline-based analysis

Allows you to analyze capacity insights across different time windows, including past events, current conditions, and predicted future risks.

Device health indicators

Displays device health status based on active and predicted capacity insights, helping you quickly identify devices that require attention.

Supported devices

The Capacity and Trend Analyzer supports:

  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense devices

  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense High Availability (HA) deployments

  • Secure Firewall Threat Defense Cluster deployments

Note

For High Availability (HA) and cluster deployments:

  • Capacity analysis runs at the system level.

  • Individual member devices are not displayed separately.