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View WAAP statistics in Grafana

WAAP request and traffic totals for the account can be shown as Grafana time-series panels. The Grafana plugin adds the CDB Platform-EN data source.

The previous WAAP-only plugin (Waap) is deprecated. Migrate existing dashboards to CDB Platform-EN.

Configure a dashboard

The panel uses the connected CDB Platform-EN data source.

  1. In the top bar, click +, then New dashboard.
Plus menu open on New dashboard
  1. The Add drawer opens on the right. Click Panel.
Add drawer with the Panel control
  1. Click Edit visualization.

  2. Under Data source, select CDB Platform-EN.

  3. Under Edge Network, set Service to WAAP.

  4. Under Query Props, set Metric and Granularity. Legend Format is optional.

  5. Click Save. In Save dashboard, enter a title and click Save.

The saved dashboard shows the title and the panel.

Saved dashboard with the Total requests panel

Query fields

A WAAP query returns one series for the account. The editor has no group-by control and no domain filter. An alert rule on that series changes state when requests or traffic cross a threshold.

MetricDescription
total_requestsNumber of HTTP requests processed by WAAP
total_bytesTraffic volume, shown in kilobytes

Granularity: 1h or 1d. The series has one point per hour or per day.

Legend Format: optional series name. The default legend is the metric name.

total_requests with granularity 1h:

WAAP requests per hour