# Monitoring elements

Use the monitoring elements to configure the monitoring features in the SMC.

Table 1. Types of elements in monitoring
Element Type | Explanation
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Diagrams | Allow you to visualize your network environment and monitor the system graphically.
Incident Cases | Facilitate data collection during security incidents.
Overviews | Customizable views for system status monitoring, statistics, and shortcuts to configuration tools.
Reports | Design | Define how log data and statistical data from engines are processed and displayed in reports.
History | Saved statistical presentations of network traffic and the system.
Sections | Define statistical items that are included in a report and the way that the items are displayed.
Third-Party Devices | Logging Profiles | Define the logging characteristics for a third-party device (what data from the third-party device logs is shown).
MIBs | Allow you to import and browse management information bases to support third-party SNMP monitoring.
Probing Profiles | Define how the Management Server tests if third-party devices are running.
Other Elements | Data contexts | Defines the log data types shown in the Logs view or the Reports view.
Filters | Allow log data filtering in various tasks.
Geolocations | Show where Hosts (for example, attackers) are on a world map and how much traffic they create.
Monitoring Snapshots | Blacklist | Saved version of blacklist entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Blacklist Snapshot in the Blacklist view.
Connections | Saved version of connection entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Connections Snapshot in the Connections view.
Logs | Saved version of log, alert, and audit entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Logs Snapshot in the Logs view.
Routing | Saved version of routing entries for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a Routing Snapshot in the Routing view.
SSL VPNs | Saved version of active SSL VPN connections. Created when you save an SSL VPN snapshot in the SSL VPN Monitoring view.
Users | Saved version of active users for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a User Snapshot in the Users view.
VPN SAs | Saved version of active VPN SAs for an NGFW Engine. Created when you save a VPN SA snapshot in the VPN SAs view.
Network Elements | Represent IP addresses.
Overview Templates | Templates that allow you to create a statistical overview with predefined information selected for the view.