Live Traffic | Security Only | 404s Not Captured

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  • Plugin Support wfpeter

    (@wfpeter)

    Hi @generosus,

    This has been raised before and is not in the scope of the plugin as 404s are not considered security events to notify administrators of in the Wordfence > All Options > Email Alert Preferences.

    You can use the “Show Advanced Filters” checkbox to filter results by HTTP Response Code = 404 if you wish to enable ALL TRAFFIC logging rather than SECURITY ONLY in your Live Traffic preferences.

    The 404 hits in the case of malicious visitors will still not be the security event, where they’re more likely to be caught by Brute Force/Rate Limiting settings, or having a bad IP/User-Agent or trying to use bad query strings on those URLs etc. These will be logged as security events if it causes a block.

    Thanks,

    Peter.

    Thread Starter Generosus

    (@generosus)

    Hi @wfpeter,

    Thank you so much. Great explanation.

    Your info is valuable. Any chance your team can add it as an FAQ to your knowledge base?

    Details: https://prnt.sc/n_lbOdMZhIB2
    Affected URL: https://www.wordfence.com/help/tools/live-traffic/

    Cheerio!

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