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# Monitoring in Smart Web Security

Monitoring allows you to track the rate of requests to a protected resource: allowed, blocked, routed to SmartCaptcha, and processed by an ARL profile. You can also [set up alerts](../../monitoring/operations/alert/create-alert.md) to get notifications when request rate thresholds are exceeded.

Yandex Cloud offers pre-configured dashboards for Smart Web Security monitoring.

You can view the dashboards using one of the following options:

* On the Smart Web Security page, select **Monitoring**.
* Under **Monitoring**, click **Open in Monium** at the top right.
* On the Application Load Balancer page:
  1. Select the load balancer with an associated security profile.
  1. Navigate to **Monitoring**.
  1. Go to the **Smart Web Security** tab.

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All the dashboards currently available for Smart Web Security are listed on the Monitoring page. You can find their descriptions below.

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## Description of Smart Web Security monitoring dashboards {#monitoring-dashboards}

* **Inbound total RPS**: Total number of incoming requests per second (RPS) reaching the load balancer with the security profile.

  Metric: `load_balancer.requests_count_per_second`.

* **Allowed by Security Profile RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second the security profile has checked and allowed.

  Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.requests_per_second` filtered by `antirobot_verdict`=`allow`.

* **Denied by Security Profile RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second the security profile has checked and blocked.

   Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.requests_per_second` filtered by `antirobot_verdict`=`deny`.

* **Redirected to SmartCaptcha RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second routed to SmartCaptcha for additional verification.

    Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.requests_per_second` filtered by the `antirobot_verdict`=`captcha` label.

    {% note info %}

    The total number of requests for **Allowed by Security Profile RPS**, **Denied by Security Profile RPS**, and **Redirected to SmartCaptcha RPS** matches the **Inbound total RPS** value at any given time. However, not all the requests allowed at this stage and labeled with `antirobot_verdict`=`allow` will reach the protected node. They may get blocked by the ARL profile limiting the incoming request rate.

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* **Allowed by ARL Profile RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second not exceeding the ARL profile limit.

  Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.arl_requests_per_second` filtered by the `arl_verdict`=`allow` label.

* **Denied by ARL Profile RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second exceeding the ARL profile limit and blocked.

  Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.arl_requests_per_second` filtered by the `arl_verdict`=`deny` label.

    {% note info %}

    The total number of requests for **Allowed by ARL Profile RPS** and **Denied by ARL Profile RPS** matches the **Allowed by Security Profile RPS** value at any given time.

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* **Redirected to SmartCaptcha by ARL Profile RPS**: Number of incoming requests per second the ARL profile routes to SmartCaptcha for additional verification.

    Metric: `load_balancer.smart_web_security.arl_requests_per_second` filtered by `arl_verdict`=`captcha`.

You can combine multiple metrics in a single chart and [configure your own dashboards](../../monitoring/operations/dashboard/create.md) in Monitoring.

#### Useful links {#see-also}

* [Yandex Monitoring metric reference](../metrics.md)
* [Dashboards in Monitoring](../../monitoring/concepts/visualization/dashboard.md)