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

Viewing Outbound Traffic

The Outbound Traffic page displays the protected traffic from EIPs on the cloud to the Internet. 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 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) 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 > 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.
      • External Domain Names: domain name information
      • 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.