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_ID>, <EMAIL>, and <API_KEY> with your zone tag and API credentials, and adjust the datetime_geg and datetime_leq values to your liking.
API Call
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_ID>", "filter": { "datetime_geq": "2022-07-24T11:00:00Z", "datetime_leq": "2022-07-24T12:00:00Z" } }}' | tr -d '\n' | curl \ --header "X-Auth-Email: <EMAIL>" \ --header "X-Auth-Key: <API_KEY>" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --silent \ --data @- \ https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql/The results returned will be in JSON (as requested), so piping the output to jq will make them easier to read, for example:
... | curl \ --header "X-Auth-Email: <EMAIL>" \ --header "X-Auth-Key: <API_KEY>" \ --header "Content-Type: application/json" \ --silent \ --data @- \ https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql/ | 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
#=> }