Maintenance¶

This section provides comprehensive guidance on maintaining, monitoring, and upgrading your Wallarm deployment to ensure optimal performance and security.

What's Included¶

Nodes & Infrastructure
- Node Overview - Manage and monitor your Wallarm nodes
- Resource Allocation - Configure CPU and memory resources
- Cloud Synchronization - Configure node synchronization with Wallarm Cloud
- Proxy Configuration - Set up proxy for Wallarm API access
- Block Page Configuration - Customize block pages and response codes
- Handling Invalid Headers - Configure behavior for invalid HTTP headers
- JA3 Fingerprinting - Enable TLS fingerprinting for enhanced security
- Terraform Provider - Manage Wallarm infrastructure as code
Monitoring & Metrics
- NGINX Node Metrics
  - Overview - Monitor NGINX-based node performance
  - Postanalytics Metrics - Track postanalytics module metrics
  - wcli Controller Metrics - Monitor wcli controller performance
  - API Firewall Metrics - Track API Firewall statistics
- Native Node Metrics
  - Overview - Monitor Native node performance
  - Postanalytics Metrics - Track postanalytics module metrics
  - Runtime Metrics - Monitor runtime performance
- Statistics Service - Configure statistics collection
- Node Logging - Configure log levels and output
- Failover Configuration - Set up failover mechanisms
- Health Check - Verify node health and functionality
Upgrades & Migration
- Versioning Policy - Understand Wallarm versioning and support lifecycle
- General Recommendations - Best practices for upgrades
- What's New - Major changes and migration guide for new versions
- Changelogs
  - NGINX Node Changelog - Release notes for NGINX-based nodes
  - Native Node Changelog - Release notes for Native nodes
  - Connector Code Bundle - Connector release notes
- NGINX Node Upgrades
- Native Node Upgrades
Operations
- Learning Request Volume - Determine API request volume for billing and capacity planning
- Scanner IP Addresses - Wallarm scanner IP addresses for allowlisting
Troubleshooting
- Overview - General troubleshooting guidance
- Detection and Blocking - Troubleshoot attack detection issues
- Detection Tools - Fine-tune detection mechanisms
- Performance - Address performance issues
- Real Client IP - Configure correct client IP detection
- End User Problems - Common post-installation errors
- Wallarm Ingress Controller - Ingress-specific issues
- Wallarm Cloud is Down - Handle cloud unavailability
- OWASP Dashboard Alerts - Resolve dashboard alerts
- NGINX Error Log - Interpret NGINX error messages
- Dynamic DNS in NGINX - Configure dynamic DNS resolution