**Introducing a new console experience for Amazon WAF**

You can now use the updated experience to access Amazon WAF functionality anywhere in the console. For more details, see [Working with the console](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/waf/latest/developerguide/working-with-console.html). 

# Viewing web traffic metrics in Amazon WAF
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This section explains how to access summaries of web traffic metrics.

For any protection pack (web ACL) that you're using, you can access summaries of the web traffic metrics on the protection pack (web ACL)'s page in the Amazon WAF console, under the **Traffic overview** tab. The console dashboards provide near real-time summaries of the Amazon CloudWatch metrics that Amazon WAF collects when it evaluates your application web traffic. For more information about the dashboards, see [Traffic overview dashboards for protection packs (web ACLs)](web-acl-dashboards.md). For additional information about monitoring your protection pack (web ACL)'s traffic, see [Monitoring and tuning your Amazon WAF protections](web-acl-testing-activities.md).