Overview
About
Custom rules
Create custom rules in the dashboard
Create custom rules via API
Configure a rule with the Skip action

API examples
Skip options

Manage custom rules in the dashboard
Rate limiting rules
Determining the request rate
Create rate limiting rules in the dashboard
Create rate limiting rules via API
Rate limiting parameters
Common use cases
Managed Rulesets
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
Cloudflare OWASP Core Ruleset
Cloudflare Exposed Credentials Check
Deploy Managed Rulesets for a zone
Deploy rulesets via API
Defining WAF exceptions

Define WAF exceptions in the dashboard
Define WAF exceptions via API

Log the payload of matched rules

Configure payload logging in the dashboard
View the payload content in the dashboard
Configure payload logging via API
Command-line operations

Generate a key pair
Decrypt the payload content
Firewall rules
Automated exposed credentials check
How exposed credentials checks work
Configure exposed credentials checks via API
Test your exposed credentials checks configuration
Monitor exposed credentials events
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Custom rules

Custom rules allow you to control incoming traffic by filtering requests. You can perform actions like Block or JS Challenge on incoming requests according to rules you define.

Like other rules evaluated by Cloudflare’s Ruleset Engine , custom rules have an expression and an action:

The expression specifies the criteria you are matching traffic on using the Rules language .
The action specifies what to perform when there is a match for the rule.

Next steps

To create custom rules using the Cloudflare dashboard, refer to Create custom rules in the dashboard .

You can also create custom rules using the Rulesets API . Refer to Create custom rules via API for more information.

Custom rules

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Next steps