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Downloading Events Data

This topic describes how to download events (logged and blocked events) data for the last five days. One or more CSV files containing the event data of the current day will be generated at the beginning of the next day.

Prerequisites

  • The website to be protected has been added to WAF.
  • An event file has been generated.

Specification Limitations

  • Each file can include a maximum of 5,000 events. If there are more than 5,000 events, another file is generated.
  • Only event data for the last five days can be downloaded through the WAF console.

Procedure

  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. Click in the upper left corner and choose Security > Web Application Firewall to go to the Dashboard page.
  4. In the navigation pane on the left, choose Events.
  5. Click the Downloads tab and download the desired protection data. Table 1 describes the parameters.

    Table 1 Parameter description

    Parameter

    Description

    File Name

    The format is file-name.csv.

    Number of Events

    Total number of blocked and logged events

    NOTE:

    Each file can include a maximum of 5,000 events. If there are more than 5,000 events, another file is generated.

  6. In the Operation column, click Download to download data to the local PC.

Fields in a Protection Event Data File

Field

Description

Example Value

action

Protective action taken in response to the event

block

attack

Attack type

SQL Injection

body

Request content of the attack

N/A

cookie

Cookie of the attacker

N/A

headers

Header of the attacker

N/A

host

Domain name or IP address of the protected website

www.example.com

id

ID of the event.

02-11-16-20201121060347-feb42002

payload

The part of the attack that causes damage to the protected website

python-requests/2.20.1

payload_location

The location of the attack that causes damage or the number of times that the URL is accessed by the attacker

user-agent

policyid

Policy ID.

d5580c8f6cd4403ebbf85892d4bbb8e4

request_line

Request line of the attack

GET /

rule

ID of the rule against which the event is generated.

81066

sip

Public IP address of the web visitor/attacker

N/A

time

When the event occurred.

2020/11/21 0:20:44

url

URL of the protected domain name

N/A
Parent topic: Events