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Bot Fight Mode

Bot Fight Mode is a simple, free product that helps detect and mitigate bot traffic on your domain. When enabled, the product:

  • Identifies traffic matching patterns of known bots
  • Issues computationally expensive challenges in response to these bots
  • Notifies Bandwidth Alliance ↗ partners (if applicable) to disable bots

Considerations

Bot Fight Mode has a few limitations, including that it:

  • Protects entire domains without endpoint restrictions.
  • Cannot be customized, adjusted, or reconfigured via WAF custom rules.

If these limitations could cause issues with your application, do not enable this feature.

For more granular control - including the ability to use the Skip action for bot mitigation - consider using Super Bot Fight Mode.

Setup

To start using Bot Fight Mode:

  1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard ↗ and select your account and domain.
  2. Go to Security > Bots.
  3. For Bot Fight Mode, select On.