SECOPS

WAF Attack Confirmation and PagerDuty Escalation

When a WAF block spike shows attack signatures and no matching Sentry app errors, this workflow opens a PagerDuty incident with the attacking IPs, targeted rule, and recommended…

CategorySecOps
Enginesim
Difficultyintermediate
Triggerschedule
Steps6
Setup~15 min

How it runs

The automated pipeline, trigger to output.

  • TriggerSchedule polls Cloudflare for block-volume spikesCloudflareCloudflare
  • LogicMeasure source-IP spread and path diversity
  • ActionCheck Sentry for real user errors on same pathsSentrySentry
  • LogicConfirm attack profile or stop
  • ActionOpen PagerDuty incident with IPs and mitigationPagerDutyPagerDuty
  • OutputPost summary to security Slack channelSlack

What it does

Detects when a Cloudflare WAF block spike carries the hallmarks of an active attack — many distinct source IPs, scattered probe paths, and no corresponding Sentry application errors that would indicate the requests came from real users — and escalates it as a PagerDuty incident with the offending IP ranges, the rule that caught them, and a recommended mitigation.

When to use it

Use it for genuine paging: you only want an on-call human woken when the evidence points to a real attack, not a deploy that tripped a rule. The Sentry cross-check is what keeps this from paging on false positives.

How it works

  1. 1A schedule polls Cloudflare for rules whose block volume spiked in the trailing window.
  2. 2A logic step measures the source-IP spread and path diversity of the blocked requests.
  3. 3An action queries Sentry to check whether the same paths produced real user-facing errors.
  4. 4A logic step confirms the attack profile: high IP spread plus absent Sentry errors equals escalate; otherwise stop.
  5. 5An action opens a PagerDuty incident with the attacking IPs and mitigation steps.
  6. 6An action posts the same summary to the security Slack channel for awareness.

Set it up

What you configure once, before turning it on.

  1. 1
    Connect CloudflareWorkers, Pages, R2, KV — the edge stack.
  2. 2
    Connect SentryErrors, performance, releases.
  3. 3
    Connect PagerDutyIncidents, on-call, escalations.
  4. 4
    Connect SlackChannels, DMs, threads, mentions.
  5. 5
    Set each agent's modelWe leave models unset so you pick the tier — fast + cheap, or top-quality.
  6. 6
    Tune it to your dataEdit the prompts, filters, and field mappings so it matches how your team works.
  7. 7
    Test, then turn it onRun once against a sample, confirm the output, then enable the trigger.

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