Runtime Application Protection monitoring rules

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Dynatrace Runtime Application Protection rules allow you to

Set up fine-grained monitoring rules to block, monitor, or ignore future attacks, based on resource attributes, and define multiple conditions for one rule. When creating a rule, you can check if conditions apply and how many process groups are affected. The rules you create override the global attack control settings for the selected technology.
Add attacks that you don't consider harmful to the allowlist, by source IPs or attack patterns.

Define specific attack control rules

To create an attack rule

Go to Settings > Analyze and alert > Application security > Application protection (New).
On the Monitoring rules tab, select Add new rule.
Define the rule:
- Rule name: The name under which your rule will be listed.
- Attack control: Specify how to control an attack that matches the rule criteria:
  - Off; incoming attacks NOT detected or blocked.
  - Monitor; incoming attacks detected only.
  - Block; incoming attacks detected and blocked.
- Attack type: Select the attack type to which current configuration applies.
- Optional Specify where the rule is applied: If you want the rule to apply only to a subset of your environment, select Add condition and provide the resource attributes that should be used to identify that part of the environment (for example, dt.entity.process_group, aws.region). For details, see Enrich ingested data with Dynatrace-specific fields.
Select Create.
Restart processes.

You can edit, disable, enable, or remove rules at any time.

Based on specific criteria, you can create an exception monitoring rule for the attack.

Go to Settings > Analyze and alert > Application security > Application protection (New).
On the Allowlist rules tab, select Add new rule.
Define the exception rule:
- Attack control: Select one of the options below:
  - Off; incoming attacks NOT detected or blocked to ignore the attacks based on the subsequently defined criteria
  - Monitor; incoming attacks detected only to monitor the attacks based on the subsequently defined criteria, but not block them
- Define the rule: Select Add condition to set up fine-grain conditions that need to be met to allow an attack.
  Most key/matcher combinations available in the drop-down list require OneAgent version 1.309+.
  For OneAgent versions earlier than 1.309, the only available options are:
  key: entry_point.payload, matcher: contains
  key: actor.ip, matcher: is part of IP CIDR
  To fully benefit from this functionality, make sure you're using the latest OneAgent version.
- Optional Specify where the rule is applied: If you want the rule to apply only to a subset of your environment, select Add condition and provide the resource attributes that should be used to identify that part of the environment (for example, dt.entity.process_group, aws.region). For details, see Enrich ingested data with Dynatrace-specific fields.
Select Create.

You can edit, disable, enable, or remove rules at any time.

Define specific attack control rules

To create an attack rule

Go to Settings > Analyze and alert > Application security > Application protection (New).
On the Monitoring rules tab, select Add new rule.
Define the rule:
- Rule name: The name under which your rule will be listed.
- Attack control: Specify how to control an attack that matches the rule criteria:
  - Off; incoming attacks NOT detected or blocked.
  - Monitor; incoming attacks detected only.
  - Block; incoming attacks detected and blocked.
- Attack type: Select the attack type to which current configuration applies.
- Optional Specify where the rule is applied: If you want the rule to apply only to a subset of your environment, select Add condition and provide the resource attributes that should be used to identify that part of the environment (for example, dt.entity.process_group, aws.region). For details, see Enrich ingested data with Dynatrace-specific fields.
Select Create.
Restart processes.

You can edit, disable, enable, or remove rules at any time.

Define exception (allowlist) rules

Based on specific criteria, you can create an exception monitoring rule for the attack.

Go to Settings > Analyze and alert > Application security > Application protection (New).
On the Allowlist rules tab, select Add new rule.
Define the exception rule:
- Attack control: Select one of the options below:
  - Off; incoming attacks NOT detected or blocked to ignore the attacks based on the subsequently defined criteria
  - Monitor; incoming attacks detected only to monitor the attacks based on the subsequently defined criteria, but not block them
- Define the rule: Select Add condition to set up fine-grain conditions that need to be met to allow an attack.
  Most key/matcher combinations available in the drop-down list require OneAgent version 1.309+.
  For OneAgent versions earlier than 1.309, the only available options are:
  key: entry_point.payload, matcher: contains
  key: actor.ip, matcher: is part of IP CIDR
  To fully benefit from this functionality, make sure you're using the latest OneAgent version.
- Optional Specify where the rule is applied: If you want the rule to apply only to a subset of your environment, select Add condition and provide the resource attributes that should be used to identify that part of the environment (for example, dt.entity.process_group, aws.region). For details, see Enrich ingested data with Dynatrace-specific fields.
Select Create.

You can edit, disable, enable, or remove rules at any time.