If you are using Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW) on your system it is a best practice to whitelist Better Stack IPs or User Agent. This will prevent UFW from blocking Better Stack's monitoring requests and prevent any false incident alerting.
In this quick tutorial, we will guide you through each step.
Where can I find Better Stack IPs?
The official documentation provides list of all used Better Stack IPs as well as the User Agent. They are split into regions for easier navigation.
Allow incoming connections from specific IP Address
To allow all incoming connections originating from a specific IP address, you
can use the allow
option of the ufw
utility.
To allow connections from one IP address, run the following command:
sudo ufw allow from 168.119.96.203
Rule added
Don’t forget to replace the IP address with the IP address you want to whitelist.
Allow incoming connection from specific IP to a specific network interface
To allow all incoming connections originating from a specific IP address to a
specific network interface on your system, you can use the allow
option of the
ufw
utility.
To allow connections, run the following command:
sudo ufw allow in on eth0 from 168.119.96.203
Rule added
How to whitelist multiple addresses at once
To whitelist multiple addresses in one go, you need to create a simple shell script that will do the hard work. In the Better Stack documentation, you can find the full list of Better Stack IPs. We will use this list to create a script that will whitelist all addresses in this file.
First, save the following script to a file. For example whitelist_script.sh
#!/bin/sh
curl https://uptime.betterstack.com/ips.txt > ./betteruptime_ips.txt;
echo 'running......'
for x in `cat ./betteruptime_ips.txt`;
do
ufw allow from $x
done
ufw reload > /dev/null
This script will create a text file betteruptime_ips.txt
and whitelist each
address in this file.
To run the script, enter the following command:
sudo ./whitelist_script.sh
Note that if you named the script differently, you will need to replace the
./whitelist_script.sh
with the location and name of your script.
How to display UFW rules
To display active UFW rules, run the following command:
sudo ufw status
How to delete UFW rules
To delete a specific UFW rule, add the delete option to the command as shown below:
sudo ufw delete allow from 168.119.96.203
Alternatively, if you want to delete multiple addresses at once, you can reuse
the previous script and replace the ufw allow
command with the
ufw delete allow
and remove the curl
line from the script.
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