Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Documentation

Viewing Web Application Firewall Metrics

View the metrics for a firewall contained within a web application policy.

Using the Console

  1. Open the navigation menu and click Identity & Security. Under Web Application Firewall, click Policies.

    Alternatively, open the Web Application Firewall page and click Policies under Resources.

    The WAF Policies page appears.

  2. Select the Compartment from the list.

    All the WAF policies in that compartment are listed in tabular form.

  3. (Optional) Apply one or more of the following Filters to limit the WAF policies displayed:

    • State

    • Name

    • Policy Type: Select WAF Policy.

  4. Select the WAF policy to whose firewall metric which you want to view.

    The WAF Policy Details dialog box appears.

  5. Click Firewalls under Resources.

    The Firewalls list appears.

  6. Select the firewall whose details you want to get.

    The Firewall Details dialog box appears.

  7. Click Metrics under Resources.
  8. Specify the date-time group range covered by the metrics by completing the following:

    • Start time

    • End time

    Alternatively, select one of the time spans from the Quick Selects list. The time spans available range from the previous hour to 90 days in the future from that moment.

The Metrics list appears. The list consists of panels displaying metric information on areas such as blocked requests, detected requests, traffic, and response code groups. For each panel, you can select commands from the Options list. These commands include viewing the query in the Metric Explorer, copying the chart URL, copying the query, and viewing the metric information in table view. You can also specify the Interval and Statistic for each chart.

See Monitoring for more information on monitoring and the Metric Explorer. Use the oci_waf namespace when prompted to provide a monitoring namespace.