Monitoring signals
The Next-Gen WAF tags requests with signals, which are labels that describe notable request properties. You can use these signals to help monitor and understand traffic processed by the WAF.
Monitoring corp (account) signals
To get a high-level view of the top signals your requests are tagged with for a specific corp (account), follow the instructions for your control panel below:
- Next-Gen WAF control panel
- Fastly control panel
You can use the Top Signals section of the Corp Overview page to monitor top signals for a corp. To monitor corp signals, click the name of your corp in the upper left corner of the control panel to navigate to the Corp Overview page. The Top Signals section surfaces signal data from your corp in the following tables:
- Attack Signals: displays data related to malicious requests.
- Anomaly Signals: displays data related to abnormal requests (e.g., requests containing malformed data and requests originating from known scanners).
- Corp Signals: displays data related to signals created at the corp level.
You can use a search bar to filter the tables by signal. The tables contain the following columns:
- Signal: the name of the signal.
- Total Requests: the number of requests that were tagged with the signal in your corp.
- Top sites: the sites that had the highest number of requests with that signal.
- Requests per Site: the number of requests tagged with that signal per site.
Monitoring site (workspace) signals
You can monitor signal activity for a specific site (workspace).
- Next-Gen WAF control panel
- Fastly control panel
IMPORTANT: The Signals Dashboards page is only included with the Professional and Premier platforms. On the Essentials platform, you can monitor signals for a site via the Signals page.
The Signals Dashboard page lets you view charts that display time series data for all signals for a specific site. To access the Signals Dashboard page:
Log in to the Next-Gen WAF control panel.
From the Sites menu, select a site if you have more than one site.
- From the Monitor menu, select Signals Dashboard.
