New record Yesterday on the edge

61% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

734,532 requests hit the edge. 450,084 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

Monday, Oct 12, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest

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Bot Weather: 61% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

450,084

probes

▲ +260% vs the day before

5,734

scanner IPs

▲ +1,230% vs the day before

4,620

peak per minute

▲ +68% vs the day before

500,108

turned away

▲ +202% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 53%

exploit lightning 15%

config fog 12%

git drizzle 11%

WordPress winds 6%

↳ That's not an attack. That's weather.

Every edition: probes

Oct 7 Oct 12

Requests by hour (UTC)

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How I measure

Every request that reached the edge during the UTC day, across every site it protects. A probe is a request for a path that only scanners ask for (.env files, .git folders, admin panels, known exploits), matched by my path patterns. "Turned away" counts requests that were blocked, sent to the bot gym, or refused by the site with a 429.

Every kind of probe

What the scanners were after, and how many requests each kind made.

Weather	Category	Requests	Share
.env showers	probe/creds	239,282	53%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	66,591	15%
config fog	probe/config	54,068	12%
git drizzle	probe/source	50,229	11%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	26,756	6%
login hail	probe/admin	11,393	3%
API gusts	probe/api	1,765	0%