This topic describes how to create and customize real-time monitoring dashboards and add charts to the dashboards for Web Application Firewall (WAF) in the Cloud Monitor console. By using custom dashboards and charts, you can view detailed information about how your workloads are protected by WAF in a visualized manner.
Background information
Cloud Monitor is a service that monitors Internet applications and Alibaba Cloud resources. It allows you to view monitoring data in custom dashboards. You can aggregate monitoring data of different products and instances running the same type of workloads by using one dashboard.
You can configure dashboards for WAF in the Cloud Monitor console. Cloud Monitor allows you to monitor the following WAF data metrics.
Metric | Dimension | Unit | Description | Remarks |
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4XX_ratio | Domain name | % | The percentage of the 4xx HTTP status codes per minute (405 excluded). | The value is a decimal number. |
5XX_ratio | Domain name | % | The percentage of the 5xx HTTP status codes per minute. | The value is a decimal number. |
acl_blocks_5m | Domain name | PCS | The number of requests blocked by access control within the last five minutes. | None. |
acl_rate_5m | Domain name | % | The percentage of requests blocked by access control within the last five minutes. | The value is a decimal number. |
cc_blocks_5m | Domain name | PCS | The number of requests blocked by HTTP flood protection within the last five minutes. | None. |
cc_rate_5m | Domain name | % | The percentage of requests blocked by HTTP flood protection within the last five minutes. | The value is a decimal number. |
waf_blocks_5m | Domain name | PCS | The number of requests blocked by web intrusion prevention within the last five minutes. | None. |
waf_rate_5m | Domain name | % | The percentage of requests blocked by web intrusion prevention within the last five minutes. | The value is a decimal number. |
QPS | Domain name | CPS | QPS | None. |
qps_ratio | Domain name | % | The growth rate of QPS every minute on the minute. | The value is a percentage. |
qps_ratio_down | Domain name | % | The decrease rate of QPS every minute on the minute. | The value is a percentage. |