# Fortinet traffic logs: how to create a dashboard that shows generated traffic per host? **URL:** \ **Category:** Beats\ **Tags:** filebeat\ **Created:** [May 26, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fortinet-traffic-logs-how-to-create-a-dashboard-that-shows-generated-traffic-per-host/334421 "2023-05-26T10:35:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CyberPingU](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/cyberpingu/32/121486_2.png) [@CyberPingU](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CyberPingU)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2023, 10:35am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fortinet-traffic-logs-how-to-create-a-dashboard-that-shows-generated-traffic-per-host/334421/1 "2023-05-26T10:35:01Z")
Hello, I'm using filebeat with elastic and kibana to manage my fortinet (7.2.4) logs. I cannot understand how to create a dashboard that is showing me how much traffic a host is doing. I thought that I could use destination.bytes as field, so executing a sum of all destination.bytes field generated from a host, I could have an idea on how much traffic it did in, let's say, 15 minutes. In my mind, if a client has to download 1 GB of data from a remote site, the sum of the field destination.bytes of all the logs concerning the transfer would have resulted in a grand total of 1 GB. But as far as I can see, if I try to download a 1 GB file from a remote site, there are many log entries cocerning it with destionation.bytes field valued with "1 GB" "880Mb" "1GB"... I seems that that field doesn't represent the actual data transfered, so the sum of 20 lines of logs results in something like 20 GB. Where am I wrong? How can I check the actual traffic of a host that shows me the actual rtaffic done? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2023, 12:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fortinet-traffic-logs-how-to-create-a-dashboard-that-shows-generated-traffic-per-host/334421/2 "2023-06-23T12:35:52Z")
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