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articles/firewall/enable-top-ten-and-flow-trace.md

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author: vhorne
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ms.service: firewall
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ms.topic: how-to
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ms.date: 03/27/2023
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ms.date: 05/12/2023
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ms.author: victorh
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The Top flows log (known in the industry as Fat Flows), shows the top connections that are contributing to the highest throughput through the firewall.
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Because of the CPU impact, enable Top flows only when you need to troubleshoot a specific issue. The recommendation is to enable Top flows no longer than one week at a time.
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It's suggested to activate Top flows logs only when troubleshooting a specific issue to avoid excessive CPU usage of Azure Firewall.
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### Prerequisites
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Currently, the firewall logs show traffic through the firewall in the first attempt of a TCP connection, known as the *syn* packet. However, this doesn't show the full journey of the packet in the TCP handshake. As a result, it's difficult to troubleshoot if a packet is dropped, or asymmetric routing has occurred.
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Because of the disk impact, enable Flow trace only when you need to troubleshoot a specific issue. The recommendation is to enable Flow trace no longer than one week at a time.
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To avoid excessive disk usage caused by Flow trace logs in Azure Firewall with many short-lived connections, it's recommended to activate the logs only when troubleshooting a specific issue for diagnostic purposes.
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The following additional properties can be added:
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Reset flag that indicates that original sender won't receive more data.
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The Reset the flag indicates the original sender doesn't receive more data.
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- INVALID (flows)
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