Sudden drop in Cloudflare bot traffic after strike on Yandex datacenter
Points and comments are a snapshot, not live.
Cloudflare bot traffic from Yandex's ASN dropped after strikes on its datacenters.
The page is a Cloudflare Radar security verification screen, not the actual article. It requires a CAPTCHA to access, so the article body is unavailable. The title refers to a sudden drop in bot traffic from AS13238 (Yandex) following strikes on a Yandex datacenter.
What commenters are saying
Commenters largely accept the drop is due to physical strikes on Yandex facilities, not a Cloudflare mitigation. They note Yandex is Russia's Google, and its bots include crawlers and cloud-hosted spam. Some point out that Google also hosts bot traffic, but Yandex's infrastructure failures have cascading effects on its services like Yandex Cloud and search. A few criticize the thread for Russophobia, while others discuss the lesson for HA/DR: military attacks are both physical and smart, making them a unique threat compared to natural disasters or hacking.