I’ve been experimenting with getting FortiManager and FortiGate logs into Elasticsearch for centralized analysis and visualization. The main goal is to have all network and security events searchable in one place using Kibana dashboards. So far, I’ve tried forwarding logs via syslog directly from Fo…

Hello and welcome, The best approach would be to use Elastic Agent integrations to receive the logs as it has integrations with pre-defined parsers for both Fortigate and Fortimanager. Elastic Agent would listen for the logs in different ports. Here you have an overview of Elastic Agent: Fleet an…

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How to forward FortiManager or FortiGate logs to Elasticsearch?

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tonybode994 (Tonybode994) October 14, 2025, 10:34am 5

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How to forward FortiManager or FortiGate logs to Elasticsearch?

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