---
title: Querying Firewall Events with GraphQL · Cloudflare Analytics docs
description: In this example, we are going to use the GraphQL Analytics API to query for Firewall Events over a specified time period.
lastUpdated: 2024-11-07T14:42:44.000Z
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---

In this example, we are going to use the GraphQL Analytics API to query for Firewall Events over a specified time period.

The following API call will request Firewall Events over a one hour period, and output the requested fields. Be sure to replace `<CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_TAG>`, `<EMAIL>`, and `<API_TOKEN>`[1](#user-content-fn-1) with your zone tag and API credentials, and adjust the `datetime_geg` and `datetime_leq` values to your liking.

## API Call

```bash
echo '{ "query":
  "query ListFirewallEvents($zoneTag: string, $filter: FirewallEventsAdaptiveFilter_InputObject) {
    viewer {
      zones(filter: { zoneTag: $zoneTag }) {
        firewallEventsAdaptive(
          filter: $filter
          limit: 10
          orderBy: [datetime_DESC]
        ) {
          action
          clientAsn
          clientCountryName
          clientIP
          clientRequestPath
          clientRequestQuery
          datetime
          source
          userAgent
        }
      }
    }
  }",
  "variables": {
    "zoneTag": "<CLOUDFLARE_ZONE_TAG>",
    "filter": {
      "datetime_geq": "2022-07-24T11:00:00Z",
      "datetime_leq": "2022-07-24T12:00:00Z"
    }
  }
}' | tr -d '\n' | curl --silent \
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @-
```

The results returned will be in JSON (as requested), so piping the output to `jq` will make them easier to read, for example:

```bash
... | curl --silent \
https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/graphql \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
--header "Accept: application/json" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data @- | jq .


#=> {
#=>   "data": {
#=>     "viewer": {
#=>       "zones": [
#=>         {
#=>           "firewallEventsAdaptive": [
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "block",
#=>               "clientAsn": "5089",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "GB",
#=>               "clientIP": "203.0.113.69",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/%3Cscript%3Ealert()%3C/script%3E",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:11:24Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_14_6) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "58224",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "IR",
#=>               "clientIP": "2.183.175.37",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/api/v2",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:00:54Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
#=>             },
#=>             {
#=>               "action": "log",
#=>               "clientAsn": "58224",
#=>               "clientCountryName": "IR",
#=>               "clientIP": "2.183.175.37",
#=>               "clientRequestPath": "/api/v2",
#=>               "clientRequestQuery": "",
#=>               "datetime": "2020-04-24T10:00:54Z",
#=>               "source": "waf",
#=>               "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36"
#=>             }
#=>           ]
#=>         }
#=>       ]
#=>     }
#=>   },
#=>   "errors": null
#=> }
```

## Footnotes

1. Refer to [Configure an Analytics API token](https://developers.cloudflare.com/analytics/graphql-api/getting-started/authentication/api-token-auth/) for more information on configuration and permissions. [↩](#user-content-fnref-1)
