Viewing the Dashboard Page

Prerequisites

• You have connected a website to WAF.
• At least one protection rule has been configured for the domain name.

Specification Limitations

On the Dashboard page, protection data of a maximum of 30 days can be viewed.

How to Calculate QPS

The QPS calculation method varies depending on the time range. For details, see Table 1.

Queries Per Second (QPS) indicates the number of requests per second. For example, an HTTP GET request is also called a query. The number of requests is the total number of requests in a specific time range.

Viewing the Dashboard

1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner of the management console and select a region or project.
3. Click in the upper left corner and choose Web Application Firewall (Dedicated) under Security.
4. In the upper part of the page, select a project from the Enterprise Project drop-down list. Then, specify the website, instance, and time range for your query.
   • By default, the information about all websites you add to WAF in all enterprise projects are displayed.
   • Domain Names: shows information about websites added to the WAF instance in the selected enterprise project. Click View to go to the Website Settings page and view details about domain names of protected websites.
   • Query time: You can select Yesterday, Today, Past 3 days, Past 7 days, or Past 30 days.
   Figure 1 Setting search criteria
   

5. View how many requests, attacks, and attacked pages by attack type over the specified time range.
   • Requests: shows the page views of the website, making it easy for you to view the total number of pages accessed by visitors in a certain period of time.
   • Attacks: shows how many times the website are attacked.
   • You can view how many pages are attacked by a certain type of attack within a certain period of time.
   • You can click Show Details to view the details of the 10 domain names with the most requests, attacks, and basic web protection, precise protection, CC attack protection, and anti-crawler protection actions.
   Figure 2 Protection action statistics
   

6. Query security data in the Security Event Statistics area.

   By day: You can select this option to view the data gathered by the day. If you leave this option unselected, you have the following options:

   • Yesterday and Today: Security event data is gathered every minute.
   • Past 3 days: Security event data is gathered every 5 minutes.
   • Past 7 days: Security event data is gathered every 10 minutes.
   • Past 30 days: Security event data is gathered every hour.
   Figure 3 Security Event Statistics
   

   Table 2 Parameters in Security Event Statistics

   Parameter	Description
   Requests	You can view how many requests for your website as well as total attacks and attacks of each attack type.
   QPS	Average number of requests per second for the domain name. For details about the values of QPS, see How to Calculate QPS. Queries Per Second (QPS) indicates the number of requests per second. For example, an HTTP GET request is also called a query.
   Bytes Sent/Received	Bandwidth usage The value of sent and received bytes is calculated by adding the values of request_length and upstream_bytes_received by time, so the value is different from the network bandwidth monitored on the EIP. This value is also affected by web page compression, connection reuse, and TCP retransmission.
   Event Distribution	Types of attack events Click an area in the Event Distribution area to view the type, number, and proportion of an attack.
   Top 10 Attacked Domain Names	The ten most attacked domain names and the number of attacks on each domain name. Click View More to go to the Events page and view more protection data.
   Top 10 Attack Source IP Addresses	The ten source IP addresses with the most attacks and the number of attacks from each source IP address. Click View More to go to the Events page and view more protection data.
   Top 10 Attacked URLs	The ten most attacked URLs and the number of attacks on each URL. Click View More to go to the Events page and view more protection data.