Yesterday on the edge

66% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

1,266,435 requests hit the edge. 840,217 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

Monday, Oct 19, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest

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Bot Weather: 66% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

840,217

probes

▲ +21% vs the day before

4,995

scanner IPs

▲ +11% vs the day before

41,345

peak per minute

▲ +614% vs the day before

539,032

turned away

▲ +47% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 67%

config fog 12%

git drizzle 8%

WordPress winds 8%

exploit lightning 4%

↳ 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	562,000	67%
config fog	probe/config	98,466	12%
git drizzle	probe/source	69,510	8%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	64,436	8%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	34,775	4%
login hail	probe/admin	9,086	1%
API gusts	probe/api	1,944	0%