Viewing Outbound Traffic

Prerequisites

EIP protection has been enabled. For details, see Enabling Internet Border Traffic Protection.

Viewing Outbound Traffic

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. In the navigation pane on the left, click and choose Security & Compliance > Cloud Firewall. The Dashboard page will be displayed.
4. (Optional) If the current account has only one firewall instance, the firewall details page is displayed. If there are multiple firewall instances, click View in the Operation column of a firewall to go to its details page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Traffic Analysis > Outbound Traffic.
6. Check statistics on the traffic passing through the firewall within a time range, from 5 minutes to 7 days.
   • Traffic Dashboard: Information about the highest traffic when internal servers access the Internet.
   • Outbound Traffic: Outbound request traffic and response traffic. The traffic statistics of up to 30 EIPs can be queried at a time.

     Table 1 Value description

     Time Range	Value
     Last 1 hour	Average value within every minute
     Last 24 hours	Average value within every 5 minutes
     Last 7 days	Average value within every hour
     Custom	5 minutes to 6 hours: average value within every minute 6 hours (included) to 3 days: average value within every 5 minutes 3 (included) to 7 days (included): average value within every 30 minutes

   • Visualizations: Top 5 items ranked by certain parameters regarding outbound traffic within a specified time range. For more information, see Table 2. You can click a data record to view the traffic details. A maximum of 50 data records can be viewed.

     Table 2 Outbound traffic parameters

     Parameter	Description
     Top Destination IP Addresses	Destination IP addresses of outbound traffic.
     Top Destination Regions	Geographical locations of the source IP addresses of outbound traffic.
     Top Access Source IP Addresses	Source IP addresses of outbound traffic.
     Top Open Ports	Destination ports of outbound traffic.
     Application Distribution	Application information about outbound traffic.

   • IP analysis: Top 50 traffic records in a specified period.
     • External IP Address: Traffic information about the destination IP address.
     • Assets Initiating Internet Connections: Traffic information whose source IP addresses are public IP addresses.
     • Assets Initiating Private Network Connections: Traffic information whose source IP addresses are private IP addresses.