Traffic Messages

Traffic Messages

Base Rule

Network Traffic

General Network Traffic

Network Session Created

Sub Rule

Network Traffic

Network Session Created

Network Session Closed

Sub Rule

Network Allow

Traffic Allowed by Network Firewall

Network Connection Dropped

Sub Rule

Network Deny

Traffic Denied by Network Firewall

Network Connection Denied

Sub Rule

Network Deny

Traffic Denied by Network Firewall

 N/A

 N/A

N/A

deviceVendor

 N/A

 N/A

N/A

deviceProduct

 N/A

N/A 

N/A

Version

N/A 

<vmid>

Text/String

LogType

 N/A

<command>
<tag1>

Text/String

SubType

 N/A

<severity>

Number

deviceSeverity

ProfileToken

 N/A

N/A

 N/A

dtz

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

rt

N/A 

N/A

Time the log was received in Cortex Data Lake. This string contains a timestamp value that is the number of microseconds since the Unix epoch.

deviceExternalId

<serialnumber>

Text/String/Number

ID that uniquely identifies the source of the log. That is, the serial number of the firewall that generated the log.

PanOSApplicationContainer

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the managing application or parent of the application associated with this network traffic.

PanOSApplicationRisk

N/A 

N/A

Indicates how risky the application is from a network security perspective.

PanOSApplicationSubcategory

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the application's subcategory. The subcategory is related to the application's category, which is identified in category_of_app.

PanOSApplicationTechnology

N/A 

N/A

The networking technology used by the identified application.

PanOSCaptivePortal

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if user information for the session was captured through Captive Portal.

PanOSCortexDataLakeTenantID

N/A 

N/A

The ID that uniquely identifies the Cortex Data Lake instance which received this log record.

PanOSDestinationDeviceClass

N/A 

N/A

Destination device class.

PanOSDestinationDeviceOS

N/A 

N/A

Destination device OS type.

dntdom

<domainimpacted>

Text/String

Domain to which the Destination User belongs.

dusername

<account>

Text/String

The username to which the network traffic was destined.

duid

N/A 

N/A

Unique identifier assigned to the Destination User.

PanOSInboundInterfaceDetailsPort

N/A 

N/A

Hardware port or socket from which the network traffic was sourced.

PanOSInboundInterfaceDetailsSlot

N/A 

N/A

Interface slot from which the network traffic was sourced.

PanOSInboundInterfaceDetailsType

N/A 

N/A

The type of interface from which the network traffic was sourced.

PanOSInboundInterfaceDetailsUnit

N/A 

N/A

Internal use.

PanOSIsClienttoServer

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if direction of traffic is from client to server.

PanOSIsContainer

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if the session is a container page access (Container Page).

PanOSIsDecryptMirror

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether decrypted traffic was sent out in clear text through a mirror port.

PanOSIsDecrypted

N/A 

N/A

Flag that indicates that the session is decrypted.

PanOSIsDecryptedLog

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSIsDecryptedPayloadForward

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSIsDuplicateLog

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether this log data is available in multiple locations, such as from Cortex Data Lake as well as from an on-premise log collector.

PanOSIsEncrypted

N/A 

N/A

Flag that indicates that the session is encrypted.

PanOSIsIPV6

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether IPV6 was used for the session.

PanOSIsInspectionBeforeSession

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSIsMptcpOn

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the option is enabled on the next-generation firewall that allows a client to use multiple paths to connect to a destination host.

PanOSIsNonStandardDestinationPort

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if the destination port is non-standard.

PanOSIsPacketCapture

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the session has a packet capture (PCAP).

PanOSIsPhishing

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether enterprise credentials were submitted by an end user.

PanOSIsPrismaNetwork

N/A 

N/A

Internal-use field. If set to 1, the log was generated on a cloud-based firewall. If 0, the firewall was running on-premise.

PanOSIsPrismaUsers

N/A 

N/A

Internal use field. If set to 1, the log record was generated using a cloud-based GlobalProtect instance. If 0, GlobalProtect was hosted on-premise.

PanOSIsProxy

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the SSL session is decrypted (SSL Proxy).

PanOSIsReconExcluded

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether source for the flow is on the firewall allow list and not subject to recon protection.

PanOSIsSaaSApplication

N/A 

N/A

Internal use field. Indicates whether the application associated with this network traffic is a SAAS application.

PanOSIsServertoClient

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if direction of traffic is from server to client.

PanOSIsSourceXForwarded

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the X-Forwarded-For value from a proxy is in the source user field.

PanOSIsSystemReturn

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether symmetric return was used to forward traffic for this session.

PanOSIsTransaction

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the log corresponds to a transaction within an HTTP proxy session (Proxy Transaction).

PanOSIsTunnelInspected

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the payload for the outer tunnel was inspected.

PanOSIsURLDenied

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the session was denied due to a URL filtering rule.

PanOSLogExported

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if this log was exported from the firewall using the firewall's log export function.

PanOSLogForwarded

N/A 

N/A

Internal-use field that indicates if the log is being forwarded.

PanOSLogSource

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the origin of the data. That is, the system that produced the data.

PanOSLogSourceTimeZoneOffset

N/A 

N/A

Time Zone offset from GMT of the source of the log.

PanOSNAT

N/A 

N/A

Indicates if the firewall is performing network address translation (NAT) for the logged traffic.

PanOSNonStandardDestinationPort

 N/A

N/A

Identifies the non-standard or unexpected port used by the application associated with this session.

PanOSOutboundInterfaceDetailsPort

N/A 

N/A

Hardware port or socket to which the network traffic was sent.

PanOSOutboundInterfaceDetailsSlot

N/A 

N/A

Interface slot to which the network traffic was sent.

PanOSOutboundInterfaceDetailsType

N/A 

N/A

The type of interface to which the network traffic was sent.

PanOSOutboundInterfaceDetailsUnit

N/A 

N/A

Internal use.

PanOSSDWANFECRatio

N/A 

N/A

SDWAN forward error correction (FEC) ratio.

PanOSSanctionedStateOfApp

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the application has been flagged as sanctioned by the firewall administrator.

PanOSSessionOwnerMidx

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSSessionTracker

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSSourceDeviceClass

N/A 

N/A

Source device class.

PanOSSourceDeviceOS

N/A 

N/A

Source device OS type.

sntdom

<domainorigin>

Text/String

Domain to which the Source User belongs.

susername

<domainorigin>\<login>

Text/String

The username that initiated the network traffic.

suid

N/A 

N/A

Unique identifier assigned to the Source User.

PanOSTunneledApplication

N/A 

N/A

For internal use only.

PanOSUsers

N/A 

N/A

Source/Destination user. If neither is available, source_ip is used.

PanOSVirtualSystemID

N/A 

N/A

A unique identifier for a virtual system on a Palo Alto Networks firewall.

PanOSApplicationCategory

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the high-level family of the application.

PanOSConfigVersion

N/A 

N/A

Version number of the firewall operating system that wrote this log record.

start

N/A 

N/A

Time when the log was generated on the firewall's data plane. This string contains a timestamp value that is the number of microseconds since the Unix epoch.

src

<sip>

IP Address

Original source IP address.

dst

<dip>

IP Address

Original destination IP address.

sourceTranslatedAddress

<snatip>

IP Address

If source NAT was performed, the post-NAT source IP address.

destinationTranslatedAddress

<dnatip>

IP Address

If destination NAT was performed, the post-NAT destination IP address.

cs1

<policy>

Text/String

Name of the security policy rule that the network traffic matched.

cs1Label

N/A 

N/A

susername0

N/A 

N/A

The Source User. That is, the username that initiated the network traffic.

dusername0

N/A 

N/A

The Destination User. That is, the username to which the network traffic was destined.

app

<object>

Text/String

Application associated with the network traffic.

cs3

N/A 

N/A

String representation of the unique identifier for a virtual system on a Palo Alto Networks firewall.

cs3Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

cs4

N/A 

N/A

The networking zone from which the traffic originated.

cs4Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

cs5

N/A 

N/A

Networking zone to which the traffic was sent.

cs5Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

deviceInboundInterface

<sinterface>

Text/String

Interface from which the network traffic was sourced.

deviceOutboundInterface

<dinterface>

Text/String

Interface to which the network traffic was destined.

cs6

N/A 

N/A

Log forwarding profile name that was applied to the session. This name was defined by the firewall's administrator.

cs6Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

cn1

<session>

Number

Identifies the firewall's internal identifier for a specific network session.

cn1Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

cnt

N/A 

N/A

Number of sessions with same Source IP, Destination IP, Application, and Content/Threat Type seen for the summary interval.

spt

<sport>

Number

Source port utilized by the session.

dpt

<dport>

Number

Network traffic's destination port. If this value is 0, then the app is using its standard port.

sourceTranslatedPort

<snatport>

Number

Post-NAT source port.

destinationTranslatedPort

<dnatport>

Number

Post-NAT destination port.

proto

<protname>

Text/String

IP protocol associated with the session.

act

<action>

Text/String

Identifies the action that the firewall took for the network traffic.

PanOSBytes

N/A 

N/A

Number of total bytes (transmit and receive).

out

<bytesin>

Number

Number of bytes in the client-to-server network traffic.

in

<bytesout>

Number

Number of bytes in the server-to-client network traffic.

cn2

N/A 

N/A

Number of total packets (transmit and receive) seen for the session.

cn2Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

PanOSSessionStartTime

N/A 

N/A

Time when the session was established. This string contains a timestamp value that is the number of microseconds since the Unix epoch.

cn3

<seconds>

Number

Total time taken for the network session to complete.

cn3Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

cs2

N/A 

N/A

URL category associated with the session.

cs2Label

N/A 

N/A

 N/A

externalId

N/A 

N/A

The log entry identifier, which is incremented sequentially. Each log type has a unique number space.

PanOSSourceLocation

N/A 

N/A

Source country or internal region for private addresses.

PanOSDestinationLocation

N/A 

N/A

Destination country or internal region for private addresses.

PanOSPacketsSent

<packetsin>

Number

Number of client-to-server packets for the session.

PanOSPacketsReceived

<packetsout>

Number

Number of server-to-client packets for the session.

reason

<reason>

Text/String

The reason a session terminated.

PanOSDGHierarchyLevel1

N/A 

N/A

A sequence of identification numbers that indicate the device group’s location within a device group hierarchy.

PanOSDGHierarchyLevel2

N/A 

N/A

A sequence of identification numbers that indicate the device group’s location within a device group hierarchy.

PanOSDGHierarchyLevel3

N/A 

N/A

A sequence of identification numbers that indicate the device group’s location within a device group hierarchy.

PanOSDGHierarchyLevel4

N/A 

N/A

A sequence of identification numbers that indicate the device group’s location within a device group hierarchy.

PanOSVirtualSystemName

N/A 

N/A

The name of the virtual system associated with the network traffic.

dvchost

N/A 

N/A

Name of the source of the log. That is, the hostname of the firewall that logged the network traffic.

cat

<subject>

Text/String

Specifies whether the action taken to allow or block an application was defined in the application or in policy.

PanOSSourceUUID

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the source universal unique identifier for a guest virtual machine in the VMware NSX environment.

PanOSDestinationUUID

N/A 

N/A

Identifies the destination universal unique identifier for a guest virtual machine in the VMware NSX environment.

PanOSIMSI

N/A 

N/A

ID of the tunnel being inspected or the International Mobile Subscriber Identity (IMSI) ID of the mobile user.

PanOSIMEI

N/A 

N/A

A string used to group similar traffic together for logging and reporting. This value is globally defined on the firewall by the administrator.

PanOSParentSessionID

N/A 

N/A

ID of the session in which this network traffic was tunneled.

PanOSParentStarttime

N/A 

N/A

Time that the parent session began. This string contains a timestamp value that is the number of microseconds since the Unix epoch.

PanOSTunnel

N/A 

N/A

Type of tunnel.

PanOSEndpointAssociationID

N/A 

N/A

The ID assigned to the endpoint association used for the SCTP network traffic.

PanOSChunksTotal

N/A 

N/A

The total number of SCTP data chunks in the network traffic.

PanOSChunksSent

N/A 

N/A

The total number of SCTP data chunks in the client-to-server network traffic.

PanOSChunksReceived

N/A 

N/A

The total number of SCTP data chunks in the server-to-client network traffic.

PanOSRuleUUID

N/A 

N/A

Unique identifier for the security policy rule that the network traffic matched.

PanOSHTTP2Connection

N/A 

N/A

Parent session ID for an HTTP/2 connection. If the traffic is not using HTTP/2, this field is set to 0.

PanOSLinkChangeCount

N/A 

N/A

Number of times the app flapped in that session.

PanOSSDWANPolicyName

N/A 

N/A

Name of the SD-WAN policy.

PanOSLinkSwitches

N/A 

N/A

Details of the links switches (up-to 4).

PanOSSDWANCluster

N/A 

N/A

Name of the SD-WAN cluster.

PanOSSDWANDeviceType

N/A 

N/A

Type of SD-WAN device. Either hub or branch.

PanOSSDWANClusterType

N/A 

N/A

Type of SD-WAN cluster. Either mesh or hub-spoke.

PanOSSDWANSite

N/A 

N/A

Name of the SD-WAN site.

PanOSDynamicUserGroupName

N/A 

N/A

Dynamic user group of the user who initiated the network connection.

PanOSX-Forwarded-ForIP

N/A 

N/A

X-Forwarded-For IP.

PanOSSourceDeviceCategory

N/A 

N/A

Category of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceProfile

N/A 

N/A

Profile of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceModel

N/A 

N/A

Model of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceVendor

N/A 

N/A

Vendor of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceOSFamily

N/A 

N/A

OS family of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceOSVersion

N/A 

N/A

OS version of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceHost

<sname>

Text/String

Hostname of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSSourceDeviceMac

<smac>

Text/String/Number

MAC Address of the device from which the session originated.

PanOSDestinationDeviceCategory

N/A 

N/A

Category of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceProfile

N/A 

N/A

Profile of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceModel

N/A 

N/A

Model of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceVendor

N/A 

N/A

Vendor of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceOSFamily

N/A 

N/A

OS family of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceOSVersion

N/A 

N/A

OS version of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceHost

<dname>

Text/String

Hostname of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSDestinationDeviceMac

<dmac>

Text/String/Number

MAC Address of the device to which the session was directed.

PanOSContainerID

N/A 

N/A

Unknown field. No information is available at this time.

PanOSContainerNameSpace

N/A 

N/A

Container namespace.

PanOSContainerName

N/A 

N/A

Container name.

PanOSSourceEDL

N/A 

N/A

The name of the external dynamic list that contains the source IP address of the traffic.

PanOSDestinationEDL

N/A 

N/A

The name of the external dynamic list that contains the destination IP address of the traffic.

PanOSGPHostID

N/A 

N/A

A unique ID that GlobalProtect assigns to identify the host.

PanOSEndpointSerialNumber

N/A 

N/A

Serial number of the host on which GlobalProtect is installed.

PanOSSourceDynamicAddressGroup

N/A 

N/A

The dynamic address group that Device-ID identifies as the source of the traffic.

PanOSDestinationDynamicAddressGroup

 N/A

N/A

The dynamic address group that Device-ID identifies as the destination for the traffic.

PanOSHASessionOwner

N/A 

N/A

Name of cluster member in which session failed over from.

PanOSTimeGeneratedHighResolution

N/A 

N/A

Time the log was generated in data plane with millisec granularity in format YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS[.DDDDDD]Z.

PanOSNSSAINetworkSliceType

N/A 

N/A

Network Slice Type (SST part of SNSSAI).

PanOSNSSAINetworkSliceDifferentiator

N/A 

N/A

Network Slice Differentiator (SD part of SNSSAI).

PanOSIsOffloaded

N/A 

N/A

Indicates whether the traffic flow is offloaded to hardware before the packets enter Linux kernel on VM/CN series.

PanOSLocation

N/A 

N/A

Prisma Access Region/Location.