Best Web Application Firewalls (WAF) for Elastic Observability

Compare the Top Web Application Firewalls (WAF) that integrate with Elastic Observability as of July 2025

This a list of Web Application Firewalls (WAF) that integrate with Elastic Observability. Use the filters on the left to add additional filters for products that have integrations with Elastic Observability. View the products that work with Elastic Observability in the table below.

What are Web Application Firewalls (WAF) for Elastic Observability?

Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are security solutions that protect web applications by filtering and monitoring HTTP traffic between the application and the internet. They detect and block threats such as SQL injections, cross-site scripting (XSS), and other common attacks targeting application vulnerabilities. WAFs analyze incoming requests in real time, applying customizable security rules to distinguish between legitimate and potentially malicious traffic. Many WAFs are cloud-based, enabling flexible and scalable protection without impacting application performance. By acting as a shield between web applications and attackers, WAFs help ensure data security, regulatory compliance, and uninterrupted user access. Compare and read user reviews of the best Web Application Firewalls (WAF) for Elastic Observability currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Cloudflare

    Cloudflare

    Cloudflare

    Cloudflare is the foundation for your infrastructure, applications, and teams. Cloudflare secures and ensures the reliability of your external-facing resources such as websites, APIs, and applications. It protects your internal resources such as behind-the-firewall applications, teams, and devices. And it is your platform for developing globally scalable applications. Your website, APIs, and applications are your key channels for doing business with your customers and suppliers. As more and more shift online, ensuring these resources are secure, performant and reliable is a business imperative. Cloudflare for Infrastructure is a complete solution to enable this for anything connected to the Internet. Behind-the-firewall applications and devices are foundational to the work of your internal teams. The recent surge in remote work is testing the limits of many organizations’ VPN and other hardware solutions.
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    Starting Price: $20 per website
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    Azure Application Gateway
    Protect your applications from common web vulnerabilities such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting. Monitor your web applications using custom rules and rule groups to suit your requirements and eliminate false positives. Get application-level load-balancing services and routing to build a scalable and highly available web front end in Azure. Autoscaling offers elasticity by automatically scaling Application Gateway instances based on your web application traffic load. Application Gateway is integrated with several Azure services. Azure Traffic Manager supports multiple-region redirection, automatic failover, and zero-downtime maintenance. Use Azure Virtual Machines, virtual machine scale sets, or the Web Apps feature of Azure App Service in your back-end pools. Azure Monitor and Azure Security Center provide centralized monitoring and alerting, and an application health dashboard. Key Vault offers central management and automatic renewal of SSL certificates.
    Starting Price: $18.25 per month
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    AWS WAF

    AWS WAF

    Amazon

    AWS WAF is a web application firewall that helps protect your web applications or APIs against common web exploits that may affect availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources. AWS WAF gives you control over how traffic reaches your applications by enabling you to create security rules that block common attack patterns, such as SQL injection or cross-site scripting, and rules that filter out specific traffic patterns you define. You can get started quickly using Managed Rules for AWS WAF, a pre-configured set of rules managed by AWS or AWS Marketplace Sellers. The Managed Rules for WAF address issues like the OWASP Top 10 security risks. These rules are regularly updated as new issues emerge. AWS WAF includes a full-featured API that you can use to automate the creation, deployment, and maintenance of security rules. With AWS WAF, you pay only for what you use. The pricing is based on how many rules you deploy and how many web requests your application receives.
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