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You can enable traffic logging for a firewall policy. All connections accepted by the 
firewall policy are recorded in the traffic log.

Go to Firewall > Policy.

Select the Edit icon for a policy.

Select Log Traffic.

Select OK.

Make sure you enable traffic log under Log Filter for a logging location and set the 
logging severity level to Notification or lower. 

Log Access provides access to log messages saved to the FortiGate disk or to the 
memory buffer. You can delete, view, search, and navigate logs.

On its disk, the FortiGate unit saves log messages in files. To view log messages, you 
must first select the file to open. You can also delete a file, clear (remove the log 
messages from) a file, or download a file in either plain text or CSV format.

You can view the log messages in a memory buffer simply by accessing the buffer. 
You cannot delete or download log messages from the memory buffer.

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You can view, navigate, and download logs saved to the FortiGate disk.

The following table describes the column headings and the icons you can use to view 
and manage the log files when accessing logs saved to the disk.

Select the log location for which you want to view logs: disk or memory. For 

some types of logs only disk storage is available.

The name(s) of the log file(s) of that type stored to disk.

The size of the log file in bytes.