Cloudflare launches native log management tool

Cloud provider Cloudflare has introduced a new tool for enabling users to analyse, investigate and monitor for security attacks within the Cloudflare Dashboard.

Cloudflare Log Explorer, which is now in general availability, seeks to save security teams time and money by eliminating the need to forward logs generated by the Cloudflare platform to third-party security analysis tools. The solution is capable of searching HTTP, security event and zero trust logs, and take action to reduce the impact of security breaches, natively within the Cloudflare environment.

Customers are able to predefine custom dashboards to allow them to monitor for specific security threats such as remote code execution attacks, and correlate them with other security events such as malicious content uploads and source IP addresses. The platform is shipping with templates for bot monitoring, API security, API performance, account takeover, performance monitoring and security monitoring.

Cloudflare has revealed plans to soon upgrade the platform with the ability to set custom log retention policies to satisfy organisations’ audit, compliance or internal governance needs. Another upcoming feature will enable users to configure custom alert policies to allow them to monitor the indicators that are most important to their businesses.

Prior to launching into general availability, the capability has been previewed by over 500 of Cloudflare’s customers.

Cloudflare president of product and engineering CJ Desai said the solution is aimed at shaking up the log management market, which he said has been unnecessarily complex and expensive for far too long.

“We think businesses deserve better and, thanks to the scale of our platform, we’re uniquely positioned to deliver a faster, more unified way for businesses to gain visibility and understand all the risks to their business,” he said. “Cloudflare already detects threats faster than any solution on the market. Now, combining our threat detection capabilities with native log management, we are one step closer to allowing customers to get rid of certain third party tools, like SIEMs.”

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