Updated on 2024-10-09 GMT+08:00

Viewing Inbound Traffic

The Inbound Traffic page displays the protected traffic from the Internet to EIPs on the cloud. CFW collects traffic statistics based on sessions. Traffic data is reported when the connection is terminated.

Prerequisites

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

Viewing Inbound 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 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 > Inbound 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 from the Internet to internal servers.
    • Inbound Traffic: Inbound 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 inbound 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 Inbound traffic parameters

      Parameter

      Description

      Top Access Source IP Addresses

      Source IP addresses of inbound traffic.

      Top Access Source Regions

      Geographical locations of the source IP addresses of inbound traffic.

      Top Destination IP Addresses

      Destination IP addresses of inbound traffic.

      Top Open Ports

      Destination ports of inbound traffic.

      Application Distribution

      Application information about inbound traffic.

    • IP analysis: Top 50 traffic records in a specified period.
      • EIPs: Traffic information about destination IP addresses.
      • Source IP Addresses: Traffic information about source IP addresses.