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AWS network-firewall documentation change

Service: network-firewall · 2025-06-07 · Documentation low

File: network-firewall/latest/developerguide/logging-monitoring.md

Summary

Restructured monitoring documentation, added details about native monitoring dashboard capabilities, and linked to monitoring prerequisites

Security assessment

The changes improve general documentation structure and describe monitoring features without introducing new security-related content. No security vulnerabilities or specific security enhancements are mentioned. Updates focus on feature explanations and documentation organization.

Diff

diff --git a/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/logging-monitoring.md b/network-firewall/latest/developerguide/logging-monitoring.md
index 0103c5490..f1d042750 100644
--- a//network-firewall/latest/developerguide/logging-monitoring.md
+++ b//network-firewall/latest/developerguide/logging-monitoring.md
@@ -7 +7 @@
-Logging and monitoring help you to maintain the reliability, availability, and performance of AWS Network Firewall. You can monitor how the service is being used and you can monitor network traffic and traffic filtering done by the stateful rule groups in your Network Firewall firewalls.
+Logging and monitoring helps you maintain the reliability, availability, and performance of AWS Network Firewall. You can monitor how the service is being used and you can monitor network traffic and traffic filtering in your Network Firewall firewalls.
@@ -11 +11 @@ AWS provides a number of tools that you can use to monitor Network Firewall. You
-For information on manual monitoring tools with Network Firewall, see 
+###### Automated monitoring tools that work with Network Firewall
@@ -26 +26,18 @@ You can use the following automated monitoring tools with Network Firewall:
-You can use also manually generate reports for the domains that are most frequently observed by a firewall. If you enable Traffic analysis mode for your firewall, you can create a report based on HTTP or HTTPS traffic observed over the last 30 days. You can only generate one report per traffic type per 30 day period. 
+###### Monitoring and reporting options native to AWS Network Firewall
+
+In addition to automated monitoring tools, you can access the following monitoring and reporting capabilities to analyze your network traffic directly from the Network Firewall console: 
+
+  * Firewall request graph of packets monitored
+
+  * Firewall monitoring dashboard for flow and alert logs
+
+  * Traffic analysis mode and report generation
+
+
+
+
+###### Note
+
+Firewall monitoring and traffic analysis mode each have specific prerequisites and configuration. For information, see [Monitoring and reporting in Network Firewall](./nwfw-monitoring-reporting.html).
+
+Review the topics in this guide to learn more about the different logging, monitoring, and reporting capabilities you can use with Network Firewall.
@@ -36 +53 @@ You can use also manually generate reports for the domains that are most frequen
-  * [Reporting on network traffic in Network Firewall](./reporting.html)
+  * [Monitoring and reporting in Network Firewall](./nwfw-monitoring-reporting.html)