Once you’ve integrated with AWS CloudWatch, you have access to all metrics for WAF, which isis a firewall for monitoring amazon cloudfront.

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To verify metrics are reporting, search for the metrics on the Metric details page in Settings.

The following table shows the WAFV2 metrics ingested by Cloud Observability.

Metric Name Unit Description
aws.wafv2.allowed_requests count The number of web requests that can be made.
aws.wafv2.blocked_requests count The count of blocked web requests.
aws.wafv2.counted_requests count The total number of web requests counted.
aws.wafv2.captcha_requests count The number of web requests that used CAPTCHA controls.
aws.wafv2.requests_with_valid_captcha_token count The number of web requests that used CAPTCHA controls and had a valid CAPTCHA token.
aws.wafv2.challenge_requests count The number of web requests that used challenge controls.
aws.wafv2.requests_with_valid_challenge_token count The number of web requests that had challenge controls enabled and a valid challenge token.
aws.wafv2.passed_requests count The total number of passed requests.

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Updated Dec 19, 2022