For some reason, over the past week my Anonymous users statistics have exploded. According to Google Analytics, I’ve only had around 200 Sessions during this period. [anon_users] No idea if it has anything to do with crawlers but I have the default “blacklisted crawler user agents” set to mauibot,…

If you’ve got SSH access you can: ./launcher enter app and then cd /var/log/nginx Which has access logs for the nginx instance within the Discourse container. You can throw them at your log analyser of choice to look at where requests are coming from and their frequency. It’s likely to be one …

Have you looked at the origin IPs for this traffic?

Thanks, I learned something new today :+1: Initially, some IP from Mexico looks like the culprit. I’ll dig through some more logs. Thank you

From what I can see, there’s considerably high numbers of Mozilla crawlers.

So, you methodology allowed me to identify a rogue IP address that was spamming my server. I blacklisted that address 22 hours ago and my latest stats look like this under my Anonymous Report: Date Count March 6, 2019 28 March 5, 2019 2665 March 4, 2019 3076 March 3, 2019 1172 March…

Yeah, from the numbers @digitalstartup was querying (3979 vs 62) I didn’t point him in that direction because I assume the crawler list that goes into that report to be pretty up-to-date.

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) 6 Marzo 2019, 1:29am 6

Usually the crawler reports by user agent under Admin cover this just fine cc @Stephen.

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