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Application Usage by Firewall Policy With NQE Query

  • August 27, 2026
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Is it possible to run a NQE query similar to aclEntry.lifecycleData?.lastUsed which returns the list of applications that has been identified passing through a security policy?

Something similar to Palo Alto’s “apps seen” or Fortinet’s Fortiview Application Usage?

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Tyson Henrie
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  • Employee
  • August 27, 2026

@wyman.bartlett We currently do not parse that data.

I can add a feature request to parse that.

In the meantime, if you could determine what CLI command shows that data.  You could add that as a Custom Command and parse it manually inside NQE.


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  • Ramping Up
  • August 27, 2026

That would be a welcome feature inclusion, thanks!

Hmm. I know that palo alto has a command for that “show running application cache” but I am not certain if Fortinet does. I am pretty certain that sort of breakdown would be sent to the fortianalyzer since that involves log analysis. I guess it would require reconstructing the functionality with a query against the fortianalyzer logs?


  • Author
  • Ramping Up
  • August 27, 2026

self-correction. I think this is the fortigate version of the same command:

execute log filter category 10

execute log filter field policyid <POLICY_ID>

execute log display