Yesterday on the edge

60% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

1,104,772 requests hit the edge. 657,507 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

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Bot Weather: 60% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

657,507

probes

▼ -27% vs the day before

8,199

scanner IPs

▲ +73% vs the day before

4,838

peak per minute

▼ -2.4% vs the day before

626,567

turned away

▼ -35% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 60%

WordPress winds 19%

config fog 9%

exploit lightning 8%

git drizzle 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	394,817	60%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	124,527	19%
config fog	probe/config	58,774	9%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	51,090	8%
git drizzle	probe/source	19,853	3%
login hail	probe/admin	6,852	1%
API gusts	probe/api	1,593	0%
agent mist	probe/agent	1	0%