# How to manage bots
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You can protect your applications and their contents from bot attacks through Azion Web Platform. To do so, you leverage on functions and allow a serverless solution aligned with [Firewall](/en/documentation/products/secure/firewall/) security policies to execute this task.
Check [Firewall integrations](/en/documentation/products/marketplace/integrations/#edge-firewall-functions) on Marketplace to find the available integrations for bot protection.
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## Implementation
Azion provides the [Bot Manager](/en/documentation/products/secure/firewall/bot-manager/) add-on, a comprehensive solution for bot management. A [lite version integration](/en/documentation/products/guides/bot-manager-lite/) is also available in the Marketplace.
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## Capabilities
By using the **Bot Manager** add-on, you're able to count on a set of possible settings and customizations:
- Take advantage of the features of Azion Firewall and Rules Engine to protect your network, applications, and assets from bad bots.
- Obtain a score-based analysis to identify the type of bots, based on rules and behaviors.
- Identify between good and bad bots, including bad bot signatures, malicious intent detected, scripted bots, and malicious browser behavior.
- Benefit from using *Reputation Intelligence* to establish a profile of each person who visits your site.
- Use Data Stream to receive logs.
- Customize it to better attend to your needs.
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## Practical examples
Once you've configured **Bot Manager**, you can customize a few configurations to support certain cases.
### Prevent bad bots and dangerous traffic
On the **Arguments** tab, pass the following variable to include a network list:
```json
{
"reputation_network_lists": [2]
}
```
The network list `2` is the list of IPs provided by Azion through [Origin Shield](/en/documentation/products/secure/secure-infrastructure/). By adding it to the Arguments, the Bot Manager integration will increase the request score for IPs contained in that list.
### Use Real-Time Events to observe and calibrate rules
On the **Arguments** tab, pass the following variable to calibrate **Real-Time Events**:
```json
{
"action": "allow",
"internal_logs": "2"
}
```
By adding these variables, all the requests passed through the **Bot Manager** will be logged and exhibited on [Real-Time Events](/en/documentation/products/observe/real-time-events/).
You can query the [Bot Manager dataset](/en/documentation/products/guides/query-bot-manager-data-with-graphql/) to analyze and identify possible patterns.
### Use Data Stream as observability tool
To set up an function, follow the steps in [Setting up the function](/en/documentation/products/guides/bot-manager-lite/#setting-up-the-function).
Then, you can use [Data Stream](/en/documentation/products/observe/data-stream/) to integrate with stream processing, SIEM, and big data platforms by using the **Functions** source and the **Functions Event Collector** template. This way, you can send your logs to the connector you use and monitor Bot Manager events.
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## Monitoring and calibration
After configuring Bot Manager, use the observability tools to read logs, interpret traffic classifications, and tune thresholds and rules to reduce false positives while blocking real threats.
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