Monitor your Prolexic environment

Use the Prolexic dashboard to view high-level data about your Prolexic configuration, monitor the health of your environment, and review traffic analytics and events. The dashboard links to specific Prolexic pages and to detailed reports in Control Center where you can view more information.

Before you begin:

Configure the users who should receive email notifications about Prolexic alerts and events. You can include your email address and the email address of other administrators in your organization. For instructions, see Receive email notifications for Prolexic attacks and alerts.

To monitor you Prolexic environment:

1. From the Control Center menu, click Security > Security analytics > Infrastructure Security Analytics. The dashboard for Infrastructure Security Analytics appears.
2. Click the Prolexic tab.
3. Review event and traffic analytics. For detailed instructions, see View event and traffic analytics.
4. Review metrics for your Prolexic configurations:
   1. Go to the Configuration section of the dashboard and view metrics for your configurations, including the total number of configurations, policy domains, circuits, and more.
   2. To manage your configuration, click Manage configurations. You are directed to your Prolexic Routed security configurations where you can modify settings.
   3. To view more data about your configuration, click Security Center. An interactive map appears where you can see your network topology and the flow of traffic. In the map, you can click a path for traffic to view more details.
5. Review your firewall settings:
   1. In the Prolexic dashboard, go to the Firewall summary section and review the metrics on ACL rules, network aliases, and the top rules that were applied to traffic.
   2. To manage your Firewall settings, click Network Cloud Firewall. To learn more about these settings, see the Network Cloud Firewall documentation.
6. Review liveness checks:
   1. Go to the Liveness checks section.
   2. Take note of any targets that are unhealthy.
   3. Take note of any region where the health status shows a percentage value that is red.
   4. Click Liveness Checks report to view more data in the Liveness Checks report. In this report, you can verify target availability and in case of failures, identify what’s interfering with access. For more information on this report, see the Reporting documentation.
7. Review top talkers:
   1. Go to the Top talkers section.
   2. Take note of the sources, ASNs, and services that are generating the largest flow counts.
   3. Click Top Talkers report to view more data in the Top Talkers report. For more information on this report, see the Reporting documentation.