Security & firewall

Built-in threat detection and Cloudflare firewall management.

LaraOwl doesn’t just watch performance — it inspects incoming traffic for attacks and gives you a security dashboard to investigate and respond. If you use Cloudflare, you can also manage your firewall directly from LaraOwl.

Threat detection

LaraOwl includes a built-in WAF analysis engine that inspects requests for common attack patterns:

• SQL injection
• Cross-site scripting (XSS)
• Path traversal
• Command injection
• Local / remote file inclusion (LFI / RFI)

Risk scoring

Detected threats are scored by a risk-scoring engine with configurable thresholds across three levels:

Level	Meaning
Medium	Suspicious activity worth reviewing
High	Likely malicious, warrants attention
Critical	Active, high-confidence attack

IP-based tracking

• Threats are tracked per IP address with automatic pattern recognition, so repeat offenders and coordinated activity stand out.
• The security audit dashboard presents a threat timeline for investigation.

Review the Security section of the dashboard regularly, or wire security events into your alert channels so the team is notified of high-risk activity.

Cloudflare integration

Connect your Cloudflare account to manage your edge firewall without leaving LaraOwl:

• Direct Cloudflare API connection for WAF management.
• Firewall rule CRUD — create, read, update, and delete rules from the dashboard.
• Traffic analytics and audit-log visualization.
• One-click IP blocking for addresses flagged by threat detection.

Configure the connection in Settings → Cloudflare, then manage rules from the Firewall section of the dashboard.

The Cloudflare integration is optional. LaraOwl’s threat detection works independently — Cloudflare simply lets you act on findings at the edge.