How to recover deleted VPC firewall rules
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Problem
After deleting a set of firewall rules for a VPC, you may see traffic to the VPC being blocked. You may want to know how to recover the deleted firewall rules to resolve this issue.
Environment
Solution
Workaround
- Navigate to Logging > Logs Explorer.
- Use the advanced filter:
resource.type="gce_firewall_rule" protoPayload.methodName="v1.compute.firewalls.delete"
- Look at the protoPayload > resourceOriginalState field. Here, you will be able to see the parameters the firewall rules had prior to being deleted. This will enable you to add the firewall rules back manually.
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Last updated 2025-01-08 UTC.
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