{"slug": "create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language", "title": "Create Vercel Firewall rules with natural language", "summary": "Vercel has introduced natural language support for its Firewall, allowing users to create WAF custom rules by describing the desired behavior in plain text. The feature generates rules that can log, block, challenge, rate limit, or redirect traffic based on conditions like IP address, path, country, and user agent. This update simplifies traffic management for developers by eliminating the need to manually configure complex rule syntax.", "body_md": "[Vercel Firewall](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall) now lets you create WAF custom rules using natural language. Describe the behavior you need and the dashboard will generate the rule.\n\nVisit the [firewall custom rules page](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%5Bproject%5D%2Ffirewall%2Fconfigure%2Frule%2Fnew) to try creating a rate-limiting rule:\n\nOr use the Vercel CLI:\n\n[WAF custom rules](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/vercel-waf/custom-rules) let you control traffic to your site by logging, blocking, challenging, rate limiting, or redirecting requests based on conditions like IP address, path, country, user agent, and more.\n\nFor example, you can:\n\nLog all requests to `/api/webhook`\n\nwith a missing authorization header\n\nBlock all requests to `/wp-admin`\n\nChallenge all traffic to `/checkout`\n\nthat doesn't come from the US\n\n[Generate your first rule](https://vercel.com/d?to=%2F%5Bteam%5D%2F%5Bproject%5D%2Ffirewall%2Fconfigure%2Frule%2Fnew) or learn more in the [documentation](https://vercel.com/docs/vercel-firewall/vercel-waf/custom-rules#create-a-rule-with-natural-language).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language", "canonical_source": "https://vercel.com/changelog/create-vercel-waf-custom-rules-using-natural-language", "published_at": "2026-05-12 19:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-25 00:26:39.942516+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "ai-infrastructure"], "entities": ["Vercel", "Vercel Firewall", "WAF"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/create-vercel-firewall-rules-with-natural-language.jsonld"}}