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Module 10 - Live Activity Monitoring with NGINX App Protect DoS Dashboard¶

Overview¶

NGINX App Protect DoS provides various monitoring tools for your application:

The interactive DoS Dashboard page - a real-time live activity monitoring interface that shows status and information of your Protected Objects.
NGINX App Protect DoS REST API - an interface that can obtain extended metrics information of your Protected Objects.

Example configuration¶

The DoS Dashboard has been enabled for this lab by specifying the /dashboard-dos.html location. By default the DoS Dashboard is located in the root directory (for example, /usr/share/nginx/html) specified by the root directive.

 server {
   listen 80;
   location /api {
     app_protect_dos_api;
   }
   location = /dashboard-dos.html {
     root /usr/share/nginx/html;
   }
 }

Accessing the Dashboard¶

Go to NAP DOS 1 VM, navigate to Access and select NAPDOS - Dashboard, then click Dos Protected Objects.

Tab Overview¶

The DoS tab provides statistics and configuration per each Protected Object.

Status indicators (colors - green / orange / red), one in the tab name, the other is in the table of protected objects, per protected object.

The logic for the colors is as follows:

green - no attack, s/h < 0.9
yellow - under attack, s/h < 1 or no attack ,s/h > 0.9 and < 1
red - under attack S/H >= 1

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