Bot Blocking (Early Access)

Freshpaint offers a heuristic tool for classifying and blocking bots from sending events to destinations.

Traffic Classifications

Our traffic classifier currently only recognizes three states (See table). It does not currently account for malicious actors or behavioral analysis. The $source_classification value can be seen in the Event Verification tool and is automatically applied to all events.

In event verification you can filter by Bot Detected status to see skipped events.

For debugging and informational purposes you can see $source_classification in the event itself. This is present with and without bot blocking enabled.

Classification	Description
UNCLASSIFIED	Traffic that is left over after classification. This usually means that the traffic is normal.
KNOWN_BOT	Traffic that matches known user agents for different web crawlers like Google, Apple, Bing, etc.
AWS_BOT	Traffic that matches a common bot seen on AWS. The features monitored are browser information and source IP address.

How To Enable Bot Blocker

Contact your Freshpaint rep or email [e-mail] if you'd like to be included in the Beta.