How to monitor AWS WAF logging centrally using Amazon Managed Grafana
AWS Cloud Operations Blog
This article explains how to monitor AWS WAF logs centrally using Amazon Managed Grafana. It provides a solution to centralize and visualize AWS WAF logs from multiple accounts and regions, enabling near real-time monitoring and analysis for security teams.
Specifically, the article covers:
- Architecture overview using services like AWS Firewall Manager, Amazon S3, Kinesis Data Firehose, AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon Managed Grafana
- Prerequisites for setting up the solution
- Step-by-step walkthrough:
- Deploying resources using a CloudFormation template
- Configuring centralized logging for AWS WAF policy using Firewall Manager
- Creating a view in Amazon Athena for WAF logs
- Configuring Amazon Athena as a data source in Amazon Managed Grafana
- Importing and visualizing a pre-built AWS WAF Insights dashboard in Amazon Managed Grafana
- Cleanup steps to remove resources and avoid future charges
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