Turns out a lot of traffic is just bots hitting your server
Bots have your web server sluggish and slow?
I did not realize how bad bot traffic actually is until I logged it properly.
I spun up a simple logger on one of my servers and in the last 24 hours:
135 new IPs showed up hitting endpoints
196 were repeat offenders
A chunk of traffic was WordPress and general exploit scans
There were periods where literally 100 percent of requests were bots
Not scraping. Not “maybe bots.” Just straight automated probing.
It made me realize most of what we think is traffic… isn’t.
So I built a small tool to deal with it.
Nothing fancy. Just something that lets me:
See what is hitting the server in real time
group it into types of attacks
block IPs instantly
not have to live in logs or mess with firewall rules manually
It has been way more useful than I expected, especially just for visibility.
I figured I would open it up a bit and see if it is useful to anyone else.
First 100 people can use it free for 3 months
No credit card needed
Code: IH2026
Are you actually looking at your raw traffic, or just trusting Cloudflare or your hosting layer?
