AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Monitoring WAF using CloudWatch

Monitoring of your WAF rules, conditions, as well as your application's web traffic, plays an important part towards identifying and mitigating possible attacks and exploits. AWS provides a wide assortment of tools and services that you, as an administrator, can leverage for the monitoring and reporting of such activities. The following are the list of services briefly explained:

• AWS WAF dashboard: Yes, you read it right! AWS WAF also provides a simple monitoring dashboard that lists the total requests made to your application via either the CloudFront CDN or the Application Load Balancer, as well as the number of requests that actually match to your specified rules. To view the dashboard, all you need to ...