Bot Session Logs (Application View)

The BOT SESSION LOGS section provides information on the total number of sessions established by bots.

• Sessions – Displays the total number of sessions established by the identified bots.

• Unique Bots – Displays the total number of unique bots that established the session.

• Bot Traffic – Displays the total number of bot requests received by the web application.

• Data Transfer – The amount of data transferred in the session.

• Sessions Logs – Session log details for the identified bots. Details include the following:

  • Session Timestamp: The time stamp of the established session.

  • ID: A unique ID given to a specific user on which the requests are aggregated to create the session.

  • Family: Name of the family the identified bot belongs to. User agent family, i.e., users coming from Chrome / Edge / Google / Bing etc., using multiple user agents but are all part of that specific bot family.

  • Category: Name of the predefined category the bot belongs to. Users are categorized according to their behavior such as crawler, scraping, etc. See the Bot Categories article.

  • Status: Indicates the status of the current user as follows: "Blocked: Blocked by WAF", "Challenged: Challenged for CAPTCHA by WAF", "Allowed: Allowed by WAF".

  • Pages Visited: Displays the number of pages the bot attempted to visit in the session.

  • Success: Number of requests in the session that were successful and received a success status response code from the server.

  • Failures: Number of requests in the session that failed to receive the success status response code from the server.

  • Data (KB): Displays the data (in KB) transferred in the session.

  • Rule: Displays the rule that got triggered during the session.

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