New Relic offers an integration for reporting your AWS Web Application Firewall data. This document explains how to activate this integration and describes the data that can be reported.
Activate integration
To enable this integration follow standard procedures to connect AWS services to New Relic.
Configuration and polling
You can change the polling frequency and filter data using configuration options.
Default polling information for the AWS WAF integration:
- New Relic polling interval: 5 minutes
- Amazon CloudWatch data interval: 1 minute
Find and use data
To find your integration data, go to one.newrelic.com > Infrastructure > AWS and select an integration.
You can query and explore your data using the following event type:
WAF Classic
Entity | Event Type | Provider |
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WebACL |
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RuleGroup |
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WAF V2
Entity | Event Type | Provider |
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WebACL |
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RuleGroup |
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For more on how to use your data, see Understand and use integration data.
Metric data
This integration collects AWS WAF data for WebACL and RuleGroup.
WAF WebACL data
Metric | Unit | Description |
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| Count | The number of allowed web requests. |
| Count | The number of blocked web requests. |
| Count | A counted web request is one that matches all the conditions in a particular rule. Counted web requests are typically used for testing. |
| Count | Passed requests are requests that don't match any rule contained in the rule group. |
WAF RuleGroup data
Metric | Unit | Description |
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| Count | The number of allowed web requests. |
| Count | The number of blocked web requests. |
| Count | A counted web request is one that matches all the conditions in a particular rule. Counted web requests are typically used for testing. |
| Count | Passed requests are requests that don't match any rule contained in the rule group. |
For more help
If you need more help, check out these support and learning resources:
- Browse the Explorers Hub to get help from the community and join in discussions.
- Find answers on our sites and learn how to use our support portal.
- Run New Relic Diagnostics, our troubleshooting tool for Linux, Windows, and macOS.
- Review New Relic's and and documentation.