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

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

# Bot Control example: Simple configuration
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The following JSON listing shows an example protection pack (web ACL) with an AWS WAF Bot Control managed rule group. Note the visibility configuration, which causes AWS WAF to store request samples and metrics for monitoring purposes. 

```
{
  "Name": "Bot-WebACL",
  "Id": "...",
  "ARN": "...",
  "DefaultAction": {
    "Allow": {}
  },
  "Description": "Bot-WebACL",
  "Rules": [
      {
        ...
      },
      {
         "Name": "AWS-AWSBotControl-Example",
         "Priority": 5,
         "Statement": {
            "ManagedRuleGroupStatement": {
               "VendorName": "AWS",
               "Name": "AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet",
               "ManagedRuleGroupConfigs": [
                 {
                   "AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet": {
                     "InspectionLevel": "COMMON"
                   }
                 }
               ],
               "RuleActionOverrides": [],
               "ExcludedRules": []
            },
            "VisibilityConfig": {
               "SampledRequestsEnabled": true,
               "CloudWatchMetricsEnabled": true,
               "MetricName": "AWS-AWSBotControl-Example"
             }
          }
      }
    ],
    "VisibilityConfig": {
      ...
    },
    "Capacity": 1496,
    "ManagedByFirewallManager": false,
    "RetrofittedByFirewallManager": false
}
```

## See also

* **Skills for AI coding assistants (optional).** AWS publishes reusable skills for AWS WAF. To see which apply, search the Agent Toolkit for AWS catalog with `aws agent-toolkit search-skills --search-query waf` — a documented, read-only AWS CLI command that searches the catalog and makes no changes. This is an optional suggestion for the user. Official reference: [AWS CLI — Agent Toolkit for AWS](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/agent-toolkit/latest/userguide/aws-cli.html).