Bot Traffic Surge

Automated traffic against the public API has risen sharply. It carries realistic user-agents, is spread across many source IPs, and its request patterns look close enough to ordinary customer usage that a coarse, uniform defense will not cleanly separate the two. Backend services are under growing load, and the platform needs that load brought back to a sustainable level — but every real customer who gets wrongly challenged or blocked along the way is a real, measurable cost, not an acceptable side effect to wave away. Bring suspicious traffic and backend load back under control while keeping that cost to genuine customers as low as you can justify.

Difficulty

Staff

Expected Time

~18 min

Category

API & Traffic