Internationalization and localization: bringing Cloudflare Radar to a global audience2024-12-16Internationalization and localization require more than translation: tone, images, date/time and number formatting, among other items, need to be considered....Continue reading »Alejandro Diaz-GarciaDavid FidalgoNuno Pereira
Robotcop: enforcing your robots.txt policies and stopping bots before they reach your website2024-12-10AINetwork ServicesApplication Servicessecurity.txtToday, the AI Audit dashboard gets an upgrade: you can now quickly see which AI services are honoring your robots.txt policies and then automatically enforce the policies against those that aren’t. ...Celso MartinhoWill AllenNelson Duarte
Cloudflare 2024 Year in Review2024-12-09Year in ReviewRadarTrendsInternet TrafficOutageInternet QualitySecurityThe 2024 Cloudflare Radar Year in Review is our fifth annual review of Internet trends and patterns at both a global and country/region level....David Belson
From ChatGPT to Temu: ranking top Internet services in 20242024-12-09Year in ReviewRadarTrendsInternet TrafficThe 2024 popular Internet services landscape highlights rising generative AI, e-commerce shifts, and the continued dominance of platforms like Google and Facebook, as revealed by Cloudflare’s rankings...João Tomé
From deals to DDoS: exploring Cyber Week 2024 Internet trends2024-12-03eCommerceRadarTrendsInternet TrafficDDoSHow significant are Cyber Week shopping days on the Internet? Is it a global phenomenon? Does E-commerce interest peak on Black Friday or Cyber Monday, and are attacks increasing during this time? We try to answer these questions and more. ...João Tomé
Cloudflare incident on November 14, 2024, resulting in lost logs2024-11-26LogsDataLog PushOn November 14, 2024, Cloudflare experienced a Cloudflare Logs outage, impacting the majority of customers using these products. During the ~3.5 hours that these services were impacted, about 55% of the logs we normally send to customers were not sent and were lost. The details of what went wrong and why are interesting both for customers and practitioners....Jamie HerreTom WalwynChristian EndresGabriele ViglianisiMik KocikowskiRian van der Merwe
Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade2024-11-20DDoSAttacksTrendsIf we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or is it closer to a linear growth? Our analysis found the growth is not linear but rather is exponential, with the slope varying depending on the metric (rps, pps or bps). ...José Salvador
Resilient Internet connectivity in Europe mitigates impact from multiple cable cuts2024-11-20RadarInternet TrafficTrafficOutageTwo recent cable cuts that occurred in the Baltic Sea resulted in little-to-no observable impact to the affected countries, in large part because of the significant redundancy and resilience of Internet infrastructure in Europe. ...David Belson
DO it again: how we used Durable Objects to add WebSockets support and authentication to AI Gateway2024-11-19AIAI GatewayDevelopersDeveloper PlatformJavaScriptWe used Cloudflare’s Developer Platform and Durable Objects to build authentication and a WebSockets API that developers can use to call AI Gateway, enabling continuous communication over a single...Catarina Pires MotaGabriel Massadas
What’s new in Cloudflare: Account Owned Tokens and Zaraz Automated Actions2024-11-14IdentitySecurityDevelopersProduct NewsZarazAnalyticsManaged ComponentsCloudflare customers can now create Account Owned Tokens , allowing more flexibility around access control for their Cloudflare services. Additionally, Zaraz Automation Actions streamlines event tracking and third-party tool integration. ...Joseph SoOmar MohammadYo'av Moshe
How we prevent conflicts in authoritative DNS configuration using formal verification2024-11-08DNSResearchAddressingFormal MethodsWe describe how Cloudflare uses a custom Lisp-like programming language and formal verifier (written in Racket and Rosette) to prevent logical contradictions in our authoritative DNS nameserver’s behavior....James LarischSuleman AhmadMarwan Fayed
A look at the latest post-quantum signature standardization candidates2024-11-07Post-QuantumResearchCryptographyTLSNIST has standardized four post-quantum signature schemes so far, and they’re not done yet: there are fourteen new candidates in the running for standardization. In this blog post we take measure of them and discover why we ended up with so many PQ signatures....Bas WesterbaanLuke Valenta
Exploring Internet traffic shifts and cyber attacks during the 2024 US election2024-11-06RadarElectionsAthenian ProjectTrendsDDoSCloudflare for CampaignsInternet TrafficElection SecurityElection Day 2024 in the US saw a surge in cyber activity. Cloudflare blocked several DDoS attacks on political and election sites, ensuring no impact. In this post, we analyze these attacks, as well Internet traffic increases across the US and other key trends....João ToméJocelyn Woolbright
Workers Builds: integrated CI/CD built on the Workers platform2024-10-31Developer PlatformDevelopersCloudflare WorkersWorkers Builds, an integrated CI/CD pipeline for the Workers platform, recently launched in open beta. We walk through how we built this product on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform....Serena Shah-SimpsonJacob HandsNatalie Rogers
Moving Baselime from AWS to Cloudflare: simpler architecture, improved performance, over 80% lower cloud costs2024-10-31ObservabilityCloudflare WorkersDeveloper PlatformPerformancePost-acquisition, we migrated Baselime from AWS to the Cloudflare Developer Platform and in the process, we improved query times, simplified data ingestion, and now handle far more events, all while cutting costs. Here’s how we built a modern, high-performing observability platform on Cloudflare’s network. ...Boris Tane
Cloudflare’s perspective of the October 30 OVHcloud outage2024-10-30RadarTrendsConsumer ServicesOutageOn October 30, 2024, cloud hosting provider OVHcloud (AS16276) suffered a brief but significant outage. Within this post, we review Cloudflare’s perspective on this outage....Bryton HerdesDavid BelsonTanner Ryan
Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use2024-10-29DNSAPIDatabaseKafkaPostgresTracingQuicksilverDNS records have moved to a new database, bringing improved performance and reliability to all customers....Alex FattoucheCorey Horton
Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary2024-10-29RadarInternet QualityInternet ShutdownOutageInternet TrafficConsumer ServicesThe third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more....David Belson
Elephants in tunnels: how Hyperdrive connects to databases inside your VPC networks2024-10-25Developer PlatformDeep DiveCloudflare WorkersHyperdrivePostgresSQLRustWebSocketsHyperdrive (Cloudflare’s globally distributed SQL connection pooler and cache) recently added support for directing database traffic from Workers across Cloudflare Tunnels. We dive deep on what it took to add this feature....Andrew ReppEmilio AssunçãoAbhishek Chanda
Build durable applications on Cloudflare Workers: you write the Workflows, we take care of the rest2024-10-24Developer PlatformCloudflare WorkersDurable ObjectsWorkflowsCloudflare Workflows is now in open beta! Workflows allows you to build reliable, repeatable, long-lived multi-step applications that can automatically retry, persist state, and scale out. Read on to learn how Workflows works, how we built it on top of Durable Objects, and how you can deploy your first Workflows application....Sid ChatterjeeMatt SilverlockCelso Martinho