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Cloudflare API Shield Reference

Expert guidance for API Shield - comprehensive API security suite for discovery, protection, and monitoring.

Reading Order

Task Files to Read
Initial setup README → configuration.md
Implement JWT validation configuration.md → api.md
Add schema validation configuration.md → patterns.md
Detect API attacks patterns.md → api.md
Debug issues gotchas.md

Feature Selection

What protection do you need?

├─ Validate request/response structure → Schema Validation 2.0 (configuration.md)
├─ Verify auth tokens → JWT Validation (configuration.md)
├─ Client certificates → mTLS (configuration.md)
├─ Detect BOLA attacks → BOLA Detection (patterns.md)
├─ Track auth coverage → Auth Posture (patterns.md)
├─ Stop volumetric abuse → Abuse Detection (patterns.md)
└─ Discover shadow APIs → API Discovery (api.md)

In This Reference

  • configuration.md - Setup, session identifiers, rules, token/mTLS configs
  • api.md - Endpoint management, discovery, validation APIs, GraphQL operations
  • patterns.md - Common patterns, progressive rollout, OWASP mappings, workflows
  • gotchas.md - Troubleshooting, false positives, performance, best practices

Quick Start

API Shield: Enterprise-grade API security (Discovery, Schema Validation 2.0, JWT, mTLS, BOLA Detection, Auth Posture). Available as Enterprise add-on with preview access.

See Also