Bot Protection is now generally available
Vercel's Bot Protection managed ruleset for the Web Application Firewall is now generally available at no additional cost. It helps reduce automated traffic from non-browser sources with two action choices: Log Only to identify bot traffic, and Challenge to serve a browser challenge to non-browser requests while automatically excluding verified bots.
Vercel Web Application Firewall's is now generally available for all users, at no additional cost.Bot Protection managed ruleset
Bot Protection helps reduce automated traffic from non-browser sources and allows you to respond based on two action choices:
During the beta period, Bot Protection challenged over 650 million requests of potential non-browser requests.
Bot Protection complements Vercel's existing mitigations, which already block common threats like DDoS attacks, low quality traffic, and spoofed traffic. It adds an extra layer of protection for any automated traffic that is not clearly malicious.
Learn more about the and the If you'd like your Bot Protection managed rulesetVercel Firewall.bot to be verified as well, head over to bots.fyi.
Logs identified bot traffic in the Firewall tab without blocking requestsLog Only Action:
Serves a to traffic from non-browser sources. are automatically excludedChallenge Action:browser challengeVerified bots
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