Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Web Application Firewall (WAF) is a cloud-based global security service that protects applications from malicious and unwanted internet traffic. The WAF service metrics help you measure various levels of traffic encountering your WAF policies, including non-malicious traffic.

Use the Oracle Cloud integration to discover and collect metrics against the OCI Web Application Firewalls.

Setup

To set up the Oracle Cloud integration and discover the OCI Web Application Firewalls service, do the following:

  1. Create a Oracle Cloud (OCI) integration if not available in your installed integrations.

  2. You can select OCI Web Application Firewalls during integration or you can edit the existing integration and select OCI Web Application Firewalls.

  3. Scan to discover the resources at any time independent of the predefined schedule.

  4. Once the scan is completed, you can view the OCI Web Application Firewalls resource under Infrastructure > Resources > Oracle Cloud category.

  5. Create a template. See Create a Template for more information on how to create a template.

  6. Refer to Assign a Template on how to assign a template to a resource.

  7. Click the Metrics tab to view the monitoring data of OCI Web Application Firewalls as shown below:

Supported metrics

OpsRamp MetricOracle Cloud MetricMetric Display NameUnitDescriptionAggregation Type
oci_waf_BandwidthBandwidthBandwidthbytes per secondBandwidth rate calculated by dividing total data egress in a minute by 60.sum
oci_waf_BlockedRequestsNumberOfRequestsBlocked RequestscountBlocked requests over time (for example, access control, rate limiting, protections).sum
oci_waf_NumberOfRequestsNumberOfRequestsRequestscountThe total number of requests sent by the WAF.sum
oci_waf_NumberOfRequestsDetectedNumberOfRequestsDetectedDetectscountThe number of requests that triggered a detect (alert) for a WAF policy.sum
oci_waf_ResponseCodeGroupsNumberOfRequestsResponse Code GroupscountReceived response codes for requests over time.sum
oci_waf_TrafficTrafficTrafficbytesData egress from the WAF (compressed by default) measured in one minute intervals.sum