+1Hi Amplitude community,
we are currently experiencing high volume of traffic from suspicious IPs. Those IPs change regulary. My concerns are:
Looking forward for your support, thanks in advance
Best answer by Saish Redkar
Hey
There was a recent discussion on a similar topic
As per this post , Amplitude only identifies and blocks Google’s web crawler.
So the fallback options would be to send data via HTTP API and controlling the IP there and/or implementing a block filter ( if the number of IPs are handful ).
Alternatively, if these events are getting attributed to a single bot user ID you can have this ID blocked on the Amplitude backend via Support. I had to choose this option since we didn’t capture the IP address on events to leverage the block filter.
Hope this helps.
+10Hey
There was a recent discussion on a similar topic
As per this post , Amplitude only identifies and blocks Google’s web crawler.
So the fallback options would be to send data via HTTP API and controlling the IP there and/or implementing a block filter ( if the number of IPs are handful ).
Alternatively, if these events are getting attributed to a single bot user ID you can have this ID blocked on the Amplitude backend via Support. I had to choose this option since we didn’t capture the IP address on events to leverage the block filter.
Hope this helps.
Hi
Hope this helps, and please feel free to let us know if you have any further questions.
Best,
Thao
+1thank you for your support
apparently in Google Analytics, spam traffic is caused by external people that take the tracking code (GA property ID) from the website code, and then directly send spam traffic to it.
Hi
To identify the user agent, you will need to do some logging to find it. For web apps, the user agent is available in JavaScript with navigator.userAgent. The user agent is also commonly seen in HTTP headers as the “User-Agent” header: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/User-Agent
Hi
Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Best,
Thao
I understand this as a dev but wish there was a way Amplitude proactively filtered out bot traffic so it doesn’t junk up the data we work so hard to keep clean.
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