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Creating a proxy server

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Updated at July 20, 2026
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Note

To create a proxy server, the user must get the smart-web-security.admin, resource-manager.admin, and iam.serviceAccounts.admin roles for the proxy server folder.

Management console
  1. In the management console, select the folder.

  2. Navigate to Smart Web Security.

  3. In the left-hand panel, select Domain security.

  4. Click Create proxy server.

  5. Enter a name for the proxy server.

  6. Optionally, provide a description.

  7. Optionally, add labels.

  8. Optionally, to save detailed information about operations with requests:

    1. Enable Log requests.

    2. Select an existing log group or create a new one.

    3. Optionally, to reduce the stored log data volume, add log discard rules:

      1. Click Add rule.
      2. Select HTTP codes and, optionally, HTTP code classes to discard logs for.
      3. Specify what percentage of logs to discard.
      4. Add more rules to use different discard percentages for different HTTP codes.
  9. Click Create server.

Note

The proxy server has an MTU limit of 1,450 bytes for all packets.

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