Querying Firewall Events with GraphQL
In this example, we are going to use the GraphQL Analytics API to query for Firewall Events over a specified time period.
The following API call will request Firewall Events over a one hour period, and output the requested fields. Be sure to replace <CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_TAG>, <EMAIL>, and <API_TOKEN>1 with your zone tag and API credentials, and adjust the datetime_geg and datetime_leq values to your liking.
echo '{ "query": "query ListFirewallEvents($zoneTag: string, $filter: FirewallEventsAdaptiveFilter_InputObject) { viewer { zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) { firewallEventsAdaptive( filter: $filter limit: 10 orderBy: [datetime_DESC] ) { action clientAsn clientCountryName clientIP clientRequestPath clientRequestQuery datetime source userAgent } } } }", "variables": { "zoneTag": "<CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_TAG>", "filter": { "datetime_geq": "2022-07-24T11:00:00Z", "datetime_leq": "2022-07-24T12:00:00Z" } }}' | tr -d '\n' | curl --silent \https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql \--header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \--header "Accept: application/json" \--header "Content-Type: application/json" \--data @-The results returned will be in JSON (as requested), so piping the output to jq will make them easier to read, for example:
... | curl --silent \https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql \--header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \--header "Accept: application/json" \--header "Content-Type: application/json" \--data @- | jq .
#=> {#=> "data": {#=> "viewer": {#=> "zones": [#=> {#=> "firewallEventsAdaptive": [#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "block",#=> "clientAsn": "5089",#=> "clientCountryName": "GB",#=> "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "58224",#=> "clientCountryName": "IR",#=> "clientIP": "2.183.175.37",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/api/v2",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:00:54Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"#=> },#=> {#=> "action": "log",#=> "clientAsn": "58224",#=> "clientCountryName": "IR",#=> "clientIP": "2.183.175.37",#=> "clientRequestPath": "/api/v2",#=> "clientRequestQuery": "",#=> "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:00:54Z",#=> "source": "waf",#=> "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"#=> }#=> ]#=> }#=> ]#=> }#=> },#=> "errors": null#=> }-
Refer to Configure an Analytics API token for more information on configuration and permissions. ↩
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