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Summary
IBM Cloud Flow Logs for VPC is an add-on feature to IBM Cloud VPC Gen2, enabling the collection of information about the IP traffic going to and from network interfaces in your VPC. Flow logs can help with a number of tasks; for example, to troubleshoot why specific traffic is not reaching an instance, which in turn helps to diagnose security group rules. You can also use flow log output as a source for applications that analyze traffic that is reaching your resources. Flow logs is a critical tool for determine the overall health of network monitoring and root cause analysis.
Features
Create a baseline
Security Admins can create a baseline of normal activity, which is useful when trying to identify abnormal events that could signal an attempted attack.
Identify botnet activity
Identify potential botnet activity on a network by comparing the time-stamps of certain traffic or looking for connections to hosts associated with known botnets.
Detect vulnerabilities
Detect and block vulnerability scans against their network by checking for ping sweeps, port scans and other malicious activity.
Improve troubleshooting
Improve troubleshooting of performance problems and the optimization of connectivity for development, testing and IT Ops teams.
Summary
- 1Flow log collectorprovided
- Resource type: VPC
- Flow log data