Yesterday on the edge

68% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

1,329,935 requests hit the edge. 903,738 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026 (UTC) · see the latest

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Bot Weather: 68% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

903,738

probes

▲ +7.6% vs the day before

4,740

scanner IPs

▼ -5.1% vs the day before

4,959

peak per minute

▼ -88% vs the day before

962,380

turned away

▲ +79% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 70%

config fog 12%

WordPress winds 6%

exploit lightning 6%

git drizzle 5%

↳ 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	635,122	70%
config fog	probe/config	105,110	12%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	58,197	6%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	52,738	6%
git drizzle	probe/source	46,614	5%
login hail	probe/admin	4,315	1%
API gusts	probe/api	1,642	0%