Have you installed a firewall on your PC, and you want to have it controlled in every possible way, knowing the processes it carries out and how it is working? Although several applications can be helpful in these cases, we wanted to stop today with a particular one called FirePlotter, thanks to which you can know all the details related to your firewall.

In the first instance, we must say that FirePlotter monitors your firewall sessions in real time, showing you all the traffic flowing through your Internet connection when you open it. For this reason, although it is possible to close the application and reopen it when you consider it necessary, we recommend keeping it active in the background since it does not consume too many resources.

How it works

This visualizer of the total traffic of your firewall is capable of collecting all the usage data you give it, trying to offer you the most accurate analysis possible, with the advantage that between its download and the start of its functions, it does not take more than a minute per clock. Not all users will be interested in knowing so much about their firewall, but if you are one of them, few tools are on par with this one.

If you are a person with somewhat more profound computer knowledge, having a utility like this will let you know if you have been attacked by a hacker or other type of cybercriminal so that you will have access to every connection attempt to your servers. But, to read this data, you will need to know how to do so, as the service itself does not issue alerts but reports on the various processes.

The creators of FirePlotter also recommend using this software in companies with many employees working with computers and that notice that the contracted bandwidth is not working as it should. Thanks to this utility, you will know which processes are consuming more bandwidth than usual and thus work on them to solve the conflict.

The user interface of FirePlotter has pleased us in general, considering that we find a perfect organization and arrangement of the different contents, from primary tabs to submenus, making navigation very easy. On the other hand, it is not an app that is too easy to understand because of its advanced options and because it is only available in English.

To take into account.

FirePlotter is not a free application but a paid one, but we can install it on our computer with almost all its functions available and use it for 14 days until we decide what to do with it. We would have liked the evaluation period to be longer, considering that some applications give us up to a month's trial.

And what functions can we only access once we pay for this service? Well, we are talking about some, such as Zoom on top of your information, the ability to filter certain content within the application, and the ability to repeat exact moments of the data responsible for collecting. But we will probably miss the Advanced View Mode , which lets us know even more data about our broadband connection use.

The best

FirePlotter has many positive features, although in case we have to stay with any, in particular, we want to talk mainly about the concept of this program, which allows us to know all the details about the use of our firewall. Then, it is that ability to obtain all kinds of data that makes it a perfect tool for all personal and professional users.

The worst thing

Although FirePlotter does not have too many weaknesses in daily use, we would have liked to have a version translated into other languages, which would undoubtedly contribute to the experience for those who do not speak English. On the other hand, although it is understandable to a certain extent that it is a paid platform, we could have expected its evaluation period to be somewhat longer.

Rating

If you want to know all the details about your Internet connections and the use of a firewall on your computer, FirePlotter is a tool that will provide you with much of the data needed in these cases. It is a somewhat complex system, but if you have the required knowledge, it will allow you to avoid hacker attacks, improve the use of your capacity, and many other things.