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April 20, 2026

Behavior Monitoring Properties

Use these properties to monitor client behavior. These properties include properties for detections and mitigations that protect against bad behavior.

Behavior Monitoring Properties

PropertyDescriptionDefault ValueDynamic
handshakeLifetime Maximum time for TLS handshake, in seconds. 10 or 100 (HandshakeMonitoring.md) No
secureHandshakeDelay Delay before TLS handshake when blacklisting, in milliseconds. 0 (blacklisting OFF) No
insecureHandshakeDelay Delay before non-TLS handshake when blacklisting, in milliseconds. 0 (blacklisting OFF) No
requestTallyThreshold Served HTTP requests per 30-second period for client blacklisting. 50 No
tarPitGraceThreshold Unserved HTTP requests per 30-second period for client blacklisting. 3 No
secureBlacklist... List of IP addresses on port 443 to reject immediately when blacklisting. n/a Yes
insecureBlacklist... List of IP addresses on port 80 to reject immediately when blacklisting. n/a Yes
secureWhitelist... List of IP addresses on port 443 to exclude from blacklisting. n/a Yes
insecureWhitelist... List of IP addresses on port 80 to exclude from blacklisting. n/a Yes

Changes to dynamic entries take immediate effect, without a service restart.

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