<b>Reading logs when a CDN sits in front</b>

<b>Reading logs when a CDN sits in front</b>

Behind Cloudflare or Fastly, your origin logs lie about who's crawling. References for getting the real picture.

→ Cloudflare's Logpush docs — ship edge logs with the true client IP and bot score.
Takeaway: origin logs see the CDN; edge logs see Googlebot.

⭐ Pick of the week: Cloudflare's bot-management fields reference — verified-bot and bot-score columns let you filter real crawlers without DNS checks.
Takeaway: cf-verified-bot is your shortcut.

→ Fastly's real-time log streaming guide — same idea, different vendor syntax.

→ The X-Forwarded-For and CF-Connecting-IP explainer in Cloudflare docs — which header carries the real IP.

Credit to the Cloudflare and Fastly documentation teams.