After you add your website to Web Application Firewall (WAF), you can use the alert settings feature to configure alerting. After you configure alerts in the alert settings, WAF sends alert notifications in real time when WAF detects attacks and unusual traffic. This helps you understand the security posture of your website in a timely manner.
Prerequisites
- Your website is added to WAF. For more information, see Tutorial.
- Optional:The Log Service for WAF feature is enabled for your WAF instance. The log collection
feature is enabled for the domain name of your website. For more information, see
Get started with the Log Service for WAF feature.
By default, WAF allows you to configure monitoring and alert rules by using Alibaba Cloud CloudMonitor. In the CloudMonitor console, you can configure monitoring and alert rules for the WAF metrics that are supported by CloudMonitor and the attack events that are detected by WAF. For more information about the WAF metrics, see WAF metrics. If the WAF metrics that are supported by CloudMonitor do not meet your business requirements, you can use the Log Service for WAF feature to configure the alert settings for WAF.
If you want to use the Log Service for WAF feature to configure the alert settings, the preceding prerequisites must be met.