Performance and Capacity

Latency, large bodies, heavy traffic and scan time.

• Does the WAF slow down my site?WAF-13-001
• How do I measure the time the WAF adds to a request; for which requests is it visible?WAF-13-002
• Does latency grow as the number of rules grows?WAF-13-003
• How do large request bodies (file uploads) affect WAF performance?WAF-13-004
• What does excluding static content from inspection gain in performance?WAF-13-005
• How are the disk and CPU load of the learning log kept under control (Smart Sampling)?WAF-13-006
• How does WAF inspection behave under heavy traffic?WAF-13-007
• What happens to a request if the scan exceeds a certain time (2-second scan limit)?WAF-13-008