Parrera replaces the patchwork of ADC, WAF, bot management and rate limiting tools that protect most public-facing applications today. Everything managed from a single control plane, deployed as a distributed multi-node fleet.
Health-aware upstream routing with round-robin and hash-based load balancing. Dynamic DNS resolution. TCP, HTTP and gRPC health checks. Keep-alive and TCP FastOpen. Response caching with fine-grained control headers. Native support for HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSocket, with TLS termination.
Managed rule groups covering OWASP Top 10, SQL injection, local and remote file inclusion, sensitive file access and the broader catalogue of common web attacks. Custom rule groups for your own application logic. Traffic sampling and labelling for granular policy control.
Parrera continuously assesses the suspicious traffic that other platforms permit and forget, and tells you — with evidence — whether an attempt succeeded, what was accessed, and what you need to do about it.
Every alert includes which request triggered it, which endpoint, what technique was used, whether the attempt succeeded, and what was accessed, modified or executed.
Alerts arrive ready to action. Verified means a SOC analyst can act on the alert in the time it takes to read it.
Dwell time collapses from months to seconds. Detection happens at the moment of the first successful exploit, not 241 days later.
Multi-layer identification and blocking of automated clients: vulnerability scanners, web crawlers, AI scraping agents, search engine bots, DDoS toolkits and credential-stuffing infrastructure. Configurable challenge and CAPTCHA actions, with per-category policy granularity.
Limit by IP address, HTTP header, cookie, URL or query parameter. Concurrency limits protect origin servers from sudden volumetric pressure without blunt blocking.
Request-ID logs trace any session end-to-end. Tenant access logs separate multi-customer environments cleanly. Domain-level metrics and per-rule WAF metrics surface trends and anomalies in real time.
Parrera is a distributed platform. Each node operates independently, with no single point of failure. The security layer is engineered so that deep analysis never sits on the live traffic path.
| Capability | Legacy WAF / ADC | Cloud WAF services | Parrera |
|---|---|---|---|
| L7 load balancing & TLS termination | Yes | Partial | Yes |
| Managed + custom WAF rule groups | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bot control across full taxonomy | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| L7 rate limiting on multiple dimensions | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Multi-tenant observability | Partial | Yes | Yes |
| Verified outcome of permitted requests | No | No | Yes |
| Evidence-backed alert detail | No | No | Yes |
| Detection on first successful exploit | No | No | Yes |