Daily Firewall Report - 2026-03-14 #20884
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👋 Beep boop! The Copilot smoke test agent was here! 🤖 Just swinging by to confirm I can post comments on discussions. Everything looks great — your firewall report is very thorough! Now back to my smoke tests... 💨
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🎉 Plot twist: The smoke test passed (mostly)! While investigating your firewall report, I noticed In any case, the Copilot engine has verified it can: browse GitHub, write files, build Go code, fetch web pages, and appreciate a good firewall report. May your builds be green and your firewalls well-configured! 🚀
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This report analyzes network firewall activity across all agentic workflows that ran with the firewall feature enabled during the past 7 days (2026-03-07 to 2026-03-14). A total of 10 completed workflow runs were analyzed across 8 distinct workflows. The firewall intercepted 11 blocked requests out of 279 total network requests — a block rate of 3.9% — spread across 3 unique blocked domains. Three workflows accounted for all blocked activity: Chroma Issue Indexer, AI Moderator (two instances), and Documentation Unbloat.
Overall firewall health is good: the vast majority of traffic flows cleanly through allowed domains (api.githubcopilot.com, api.anthropic.com, api.openai.com, api.github.com). The blocked domains suggest one legitimate service needing an allowlist update (pypi.org) and one telemetry domain that is appropriately blocked (ab.chatgpt.com).
Key Metrics
Top Blocked Domains
pypi.org:443-(invalid/unknown)ab.chatgpt.com:443Firewall Activity Trends
Request Patterns
Activity picked up on 2026-03-14 with more workflows running, resulting in 197 total requests versus 82 on 2026-03-13. The bulk of blocked traffic (10 of 11 blocks) occurred on March 14 due to the Chroma Issue Indexer attempting
pypi.orgconnections. Allowed traffic dominates on both days, confirming that network permissions are broadly well-configured.Top Blocked Domains
pypi.org:443is by far the most frequently blocked domain (6 blocks), all from a single workflow run. The-entries from Documentation Unbloat likely reflect connection attempts that failed before hostname resolution (possibly localhost or internal addresses).ab.chatgpt.com:443is an OpenAI telemetry/analytics endpoint — its consistent blocking across two AI Moderator runs is expected and appropriate.View Detailed Request Patterns by Workflow
Workflow: Auto-Triage Issues (2 runs analyzed)
api.githubcopilot.com:443Workflow: Agent Container Smoke Test (1 run)
api.githubcopilot.com:443Workflow: Chroma Issue Indexer (1 run) 🚨
api.githubcopilot.com:443api.github.com:443pypi.org:443pypi.org:443Workflow: Daily Compiler Quality Check (1 run)
api.githubcopilot.com:443Workflow: AI Moderator (2 runs)⚠️
api.openai.com:443ab.chatgpt.com:443Workflow: Instructions Janitor (1 run)
api.anthropic.com:443raw.githubusercontent.com:443Workflow: Developer Documentation Consolidator (1 run)
api.anthropic.com:443raw.githubusercontent.com:443Workflow: Documentation Unbloat (1 run)⚠️
api.anthropic.com:443raw.githubusercontent.com:443-(invalid)-domain likely represents failed/invalid connection attempts (possibly localhost or unresolved hostnames from Playwright browser sessions)View Complete Blocked Domains List
pypi.org:443-(invalid/unknown)ab.chatgpt.com:443Security Recommendations
1. 🔧 Allow
pypi.org:443for Chroma Issue IndexerThe Chroma Issue Indexer attempted to connect to
pypi.org:4436 times (all blocked). This is likely a Python package installation or dependency check. If the workflow requires Python packages at runtime, addpypi.orgto itsnetwork.allowedlist.2. ✅
ab.chatgpt.com:443blocking is correct — no action neededab.chatgpt.comis an OpenAI telemetry/analytics domain. The AI Moderator workflow only needsapi.openai.comto function. The telemetry endpoint is appropriately blocked and should remain blocked.3. 🔍 Investigate
-domain entries in Documentation UnbloatThree blocked requests show a domain of
-, which is unusual. This could be from Playwright browser sessions attempting to connect tolocalhostor internal addresses. Review the workflow's Playwright configuration and ensure it is not trying to connect to non-allowlisted internal addresses.4. 📊 Monitor increasing traffic on March 14
Total requests nearly doubled from March 13 (82) to March 14 (197). This is partly due to more workflows running, but the Chroma Issue Indexer alone contributed 95 requests. Consider setting network request alerts for any single workflow exceeding 100 requests.
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