Yesterday on the edge

69% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

991,157 requests hit the edge. 683,050 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

Saturday, Oct 17, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest

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Bot Weather: 69% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

683,050

probes

▼ -19% vs the day before

2,715

scanner IPs

▼ -45% vs the day before

5,040

peak per minute

▼ -9.9% vs the day before

390,410

turned away

▼ -28% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 63%

config fog 12%

git drizzle 11%

exploit lightning 10%

WordPress winds 3%

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

Every edition: probes

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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	427,927	63%
config fog	probe/config	81,364	12%
git drizzle	probe/source	76,438	11%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	69,307	10%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	19,363	3%
login hail	probe/admin	7,627	1%
API gusts	probe/api	1,024	0%