Yesterday on the edge

61% of yesterday's traffic was scanners.

686,604 requests hit the edge. 421,551 of them went looking for secrets that aren't there.

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

421,551

probes

▼ -55% vs the day before

5,731

scanner IPs

▼ -31% vs the day before

4,737

peak per minute

▼ -49% vs the day before

495,544

turned away

▼ -52% vs the day before

Yesterday's forecast share of probes

.env showers 68%

config fog 11%

exploit lightning 10%

git drizzle 5%

WordPress winds 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	285,445	68%
config fog	probe/config	44,748	11%
exploit lightning	probe/exploit	43,670	10%
git drizzle	probe/source	20,901	5%
WordPress winds	probe/cms	20,398	5%
login hail	probe/admin	4,831	1%
API gusts	probe/api	1,279	0%
probe/shell	probe/shell	278	0%
agent mist	probe/agent	1	0%