NSX firewall rules is a set of customizable rules that protect the system against network threats.

The following metrics provide information about the traffic processed by NSX firewall rules:

Metric Name Metric API Name Description
Flow Packets net.packet.delta.summation.number Number of packets processed by the NSX firewall rule.
Hit Count net.hit.delta.summation.number Number of hits received by the NSX firewall rule.
Session Count net.connection.delta.summation.number Number of sessions processed by the NSX firewall rule.
Total Bytes net.byte.delta.summation.number Number of bytes processed by the NSX firewall rule.