Fastvue Reporter for Cisco Umbrella SIG
Online Safety Monitoring and Network Visibility for Cisco Umbrella SIG (Secure Internet Gateway)
The Cisco Umbrella SIG reporting solution you've been looking for
Fastvue Reporter for Cisco Umbrella SIG delivers unprecedented visibility into internet usage and network security by simplifying and enriching data logged by Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG). It’s then collated into easy-to-read reports and alerts, and sent to those that need it.
Built for Cisco Umbrella SIG
Fastvue Reporter for Cisco Umbrella SIG is a complete, end-to-end reporting solution designed for Cisco Umbrella Secure Internet Gateway (SIG)
Reporting Without the Noise
Go beyond top domains and bandwidth charts with clearer visibility into internet activity, AI prompts, searches, videos, and user behavior, with less noise and fewer false positives.
Ditch the IT bottleneck
Give managers, HR, or wellbeing teams clear reports and alerts they can actually use, without IT wasting time interpreting raw logs.
Fastvue Reporter is perfect for
Education
Surface student online safety concerns faster with clearer reporting on searches, browsing, AI prompts, and user activity. Support CIPA and KCSIE-related filtering, monitoring, and safeguarding requirements without piling more manual work onto IT.
Business
Monitor employee internet usage, detect insider risk, and get a grip on shadow AI with clearer reporting that managers and HR can act on.
Public Sector
Local government, libraries, and councils gain clearer visibility into user activity, VPN usage, and bandwidth hogs, with faster, more defensible answers for user investigations, security reviews, and compliance obligations under CJIS and HIPAA.
IT
Reduce network troubleshooting time with clearer reporting on internet activity, security events, bandwidth, and policy-related issues, without digging through raw logs.
Reports
Choose from simple internet usage reports, IT network and security reports, user overview reports, or activity timeline reports. All reports can be filtered, scheduled, shared, and exported.
Trusted by thousands of organizations
What our customers say
We use Fastvue Reporter for reporting company-specific information to our clients (we are an MSP) in a scheduled and controllable manner so that they can better monitor staff usage. The ability to segregate information on a per-company basis is very simple and easy to configure.
Fastvue Reporter is able to intelligently interpret the firewall's log files and extract detailed user activity on the web, during any particular timeframe. This produces clear reports that can be sent to safeguarding officers in real-time or on a schedule.
The best part for me is that once I set up the reports and who they go to, I am out of the loop totally. The department manager can parse through the report, run more detailed reports, and take action without involving me at all as a net admin. Site Clean made it even easier for the managers to understand (How do you explain what a CDN is to the accounting manager?).
Get started in 3 easy steps
Install Fastvue Reporter
Install Fastvue Reporter on a server in your network or private cloud*.
Connect your firewall
Send log data from your firewall to the Fastvue server (usually via syslog) - [see available firewalls](/reporter-overview#firewall-brands "firewall brands").
Enjoy better visibility
Get a better, more comprehensive view of your internet and network usage with easy-to-use reporting and real-time alerts.
* Available as Windows Server software or a Docker image.
Compare Cisco Umbrella reporting options
Cisco Umbrella In-app Reports
- Designed for network and security administrators, not online safety staff, managers or HR.
- Focuses on security activity & threats.
- Very basic 'top n' information (top domains, identities and categories).
- Does not differentiate between intentional web visits vs background web activity.
- Does not report on web searches or videos.
- No real-time alerting features.
Fastvue Reporter for Cisco Umbrella SIG
- Provides meaningful insights into internet activity with Fastvue Site Clean, search term extraction, video enrichment, keyword detection, and productivity assessments.
- Easy for both non-technical staff as well as network and security administrators to understand.
- Detailed activity timeline reports with full forensic details.
- Get real-time alerts for any type of traffic or network issue.
- Integrates with Entra ID & Active Directory for Department/Group reporting.
- Simple to set up and use.
Fastvue is proud to be a Cisco Technology Partner, and a <a href="https://www.cisco.com/c/m/en_us/solutions/industries/portfolio-explorer/portfolio-explorer-for-education.html?s=explore-the-use-cases&u=student-support-services&o=partnerships-overview" title="Cisco Education Portfolio Partners for Student Support Services" target="_blank">Cisco Education Portfolio Partner</a> for Student Support Services.
Take Fastvue Reporter for a test drive
Download our FREE 14-day trial, or schedule a demo and we'll show you how it works.
All the features for a safer internet and productive network
Reports
- User reports
- Department reports
- Student safeguarding reports
- Allowed/Blocked websites reports
- Activity timeline reports
- Internet searches reports
- YouTube videos reports
- Online productivity reports
- Firewall policy reports
- Security & threat reports
- Network bandwidth reports
- Subnet reports
Dashboards
- Live bandwidth dashboard
- Live productivity dashboard
- Live security dashboard
Sharing
- Simple report scheduling
- Private report sharing
- Send internet usage reports to managers
- Send safeguarding reports to child welfare staff
- Send security reports to IT teams
Alerts
- Fully customizable alerts sent by email
- Safeguarding alerts
- Large download alerts
- Malware and threat alerts
- Unproductive browsing alerts
Other
- Active directory integration
- Simple installation & setup
- Auto-updated keyword lists
- Customizable data retention policy
- Advanced filtering
- Export to CSV & PDF
Technical FAQs
Unfortunately not. Fastvue Reporter requires the Secure Internet Gateway (SIG) component of Cisco Umbrella in order to report on searches, videos, full URLs, bandwidth, and distinguish between intentional vs non-intentional browsing. The Umbrella SIG is the product that enables full content filtering, deep packet inspection and the detail in the logs that Fastvue Reporter requires.
Fastvue Reporter is available as Windows Server software or as a Linux-based Docker image. You can self-host the software on-premises, or in your own private cloud or data center.
For Windows, simply run the Windows installer. A Linux setup is a little more 'techie' but still relatively simple if you're familiar with running Docker images.
We recommend deploying the software on a Virtual Machine so that you can scale the CPU and RAM resources as required.
Check out our installation guides for a comprehensive rundown.
As Fastvue Reporter is self-hosted, Fastvue never sees your confidential internet or network traffic log data, and doesn’t impose expensive SaaS data storage costs. It’s a better, more cost-effective way to get safer internet.
The CPU and RAM requirements vary based on the amount of log file data you’re importing, the number of reports being generated, and the alerts you’ve configured.
Here are some rough guidelines based on the number of people in your network:
Network Size
Recommended Server Specification
Up to 100 Users
4 CPUs/Cores, 8 GB RAM
100 – 500 Users
4 CPUs/Cores, 12 GB RAM
500 – 2000 Users
4 CPUs/Cores, 16 GB RAM
2000 – 3000 Users
8 CPUs/Cores, 32 GB RAM
3000+ Users
16 CPUs/Cores, 64 GB RAM
This is a rough guide only, and we recommend installing on a Virtual Machine so you can scale these resources up or down as required.
Recommended disk space
Every organization is different, and it only takes a particularly chatty application to drastically change the log data generated between two similarly sized networks.
Fastvue Reporter's default data retention policy is 90 days, or 90% of the available drive space at the time of installation, whichever comes first.
When setting up a new server, as a very rough rule of thumb, allocate enough disk space to store 15 MB per user per day, and use an environment where this disk can be easily adjusted in the future.
Install the free 14-day trial and let the software run for a few days. Then head to Settings > Data Storage. Here you will see how much data has been imported per day, along with a Daily Average figure.
Go to Settings > Data Storage > Settings and try increasing the number of days from the default 90, to the number of days you want to store. You'll notice the estimate underneath the edit box changes to show you the amount of hard drive space you need to allow for based on the Daily Average seen so far.
Likewise, you can change the Size policy to see the number of days the set amount of hard drive space will accommodate.
Use SSDs if possible
Fastvue Reporter uses Elasticsearch as its database. This is I/O intensive and has considerable performance benefits when running on SSD disks. Fastvue recommends SSD disks to avoid performance-related issues, especially when monitoring medium to large networks.
We don't advise installing to a network drive due to latency issues affecting the stability of our very frequent read-write operations.
Don't install to a mapped network drive, or use a mapped network drive as Fastvue Reporter’s data path, as the assigned drive letters won't exist in the system context – only the user context. If you must use a network drive, specify a UNC path such as \\servername-or-ip\fastvue. But keep in mind the performance issues mentioned above, and you'll have to configure ‘full’ permissions for the Fastvue Server’s local system account.
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