"Monitor/Audit Only" Policy Option
Nate
A client approached me and asked if we could monitor what his employees were doing without stopping the activity. I was stumped, there's nothing for that. Could we have a monitor only policy in place along with the block policy? To filter all the things a company would want to see but not block completely. (Shopping, Social Media, and Sports are a few that come to mind)
Steve Staden
Merged in a post:
Audit Mode
Sean
It would be great if we can have an 'audit mode' on our block policies. As an MSP, we have default blocklists (adult content, illegal, very new domains, etc), but often we find there is a bit of noise generated when deploying filtering to clients that haven't had it before, and don't have a great grasp on their IT needs (most of them). We find the block policies need a bit of refinement to stop impacting operations, and I would love a way to do this by deploying a block policy with an ideal configuration but in an audit mode so we can review the potentially blocked sites and add to an allowlist if needed, before impacting them and potentially degrading the service experience.
Steve Staden
Mikey @DNSFilter
Thanks for the request Nate. You can already see all traffic in our Insights reporting engine and in the raw Query Log data. I suspect there is more to this request though. Please explain further.