Manage rules in the dashboard
To configure firewall rules in the Cloudflare dashboard, open Firewall rules in Security > WAF.
Deprecation notice
Cloudflare Firewall Rules has been deprecated. Cloudflare has moved existing firewall rules to WAF custom rules. For more information on this change, refer to the upgrade guide.
As depicted in the image below, the Firewall rules dashboard interface lets you:
- View the list of existing rules, both enabled and disabled.
- Create, edit, and delete firewall rules.
- Enable or disable rules.
- Search and filter the list of existing rules.
- Reorder firewall rules when using list ordering.

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