Viewing Inter-VPC Traffic

Prerequisites

VPC border traffic protection is enabled, and there is already traffic passing through the VPC. For details, see Enabling VPC Border Traffic Protection.

Viewing Inter-VPC 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) Switch to another firewall instance. Select a firewall from the drop-down list in the upper left corner of the page.
5. In the navigation pane, choose Traffic Analysis > Inter-VPC Access.
6. Check the traffic passing through CFW within a time range, from 5 minutes to 7 days.
   • Traffic Dashboard: Information about the maximum traffic between VPCs.
     Figure 1 Inter-VPC access traffic - traffic dashboard
     
   • Inter-VPC Access: Request and response traffic between VPCs.

     The data displayed is the average bits per second (bps) of the sessions ended at the specified time in traffic logs.

     Figure 2 Inter-VPC access
     

     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: View the top 5 items ranked by specific parameters of inter-VPC traffic within a specified period. 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.
     Figure 3 Inter-VPC access traffic - visualized statistics
     

     Table 2 Inter-VPC traffic parameters

     Parameter	Description
     Top Access Source IP Addresses	Source IP address of inter-VPC traffic.
     Top Destination IP Addresses	Destination IP addresses of inter-VPC traffic.
     Top Open Ports	Destination port of inter-VPC traffic.
     Application Distribution	Application information about inter-VPC traffic.

   • Private IP Address Accesses: Top 50 private IP addresses with the highest traffic within a specified period.
     Figure 4 Private IP address accesses