{"slug": "cloudflare-radar", "name": "Cloudflare Radar", "category": "observability", "category_name": "Monitoring and analytics", "description": "", "recommenders": 3, "commenters": 10, "warners": 2, "score": 1.58, "rising": -0.98, "first": "2025-11-04", "latest": "2026-10-11", "why": "I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 3, "neutral": 5, "compare": 0, "warn": 2}, "spark": [0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": "cloudflare.com", "github_repo": null, "official_url": "https://radar.cloudflare.com", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Cloudflare Radar"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 772576944, "item_id": 48286059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286059", "by": "Bender", "date": "2026-05-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Based on Cloudflare's Radar dashboard it may be.", "excerpt": "Based on Cloudflare's Radar dashboard it may be. [1] I don't know if there is a better public dashboard. Perhaps someone from Cloudflare or ThousandEyes could share a better graph. Tehran specific [2] [1] - https://radar.cloudflare.com/ir [2] - https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/110791", "context": "", "use_case": "Internet traffic monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored"}, {"id": 761778432, "item_id": 47611152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611152", "by": "zokier", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones", "excerpt": "Of the publicly available sources I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones. Silver linings of having such wide dragnet on the internet. It puts Linux market share at 3-4%, with some regional variance https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop%252CbotClass%253DLikely_Human Fun tidbits, Finland is at ~10% (!), and Germany at 6.3%.", "context": "", "use_case": "Internet traffic and OS share data", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"}, {"id": 749084561, "item_id": 46817785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817785", "by": "shmeeed", "date": "2026-01-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I suggest referring to Cloudflare instead", "excerpt": "Statcounter isn't just \"not fully accurate\", it's a hot dump of analytics garbage, at least for this purpose. Take your time to reflect on these diagrams - what's happening there? What's the 55% \"unknown\", and what does that tell you about the quality of those stats? (I've commented on this problem before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472324 ) I suggest referring to Cloudflare instead: https://radar.cloudfl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 743850657, "item_id": 46490666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490666", "by": "shmeeed", "date": "2026-01-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloudflare is a better alternative", "excerpt": "Cloudflare is a better alternative: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=&dt=52w&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop&groupBy=os", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 800302048, "item_id": 50018878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018878", "by": "Gracana", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "your domain is marked \"newly seen\" on cloudflare, which results in it being blocked by Ubiquiti Unifi domain filtering", "excerpt": "FYI your domain is marked \"newly seen\" on cloudflare, which results in it being blocked by Ubiquiti Unifi domain filtering. $ dig NS naturalsystems.io @1.1.1.1 [...] ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available [...] ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: naturalsystems.io. 3600 IN SOA block.unifi.local. 0. 7200 900 1209600 86400 0 You can submit to have it re-categorized using the link below. https://radar.cloudflare.com/domain", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"}, {"id": 740981872, "item_id": 46311367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311367", "by": "DoctorOW", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Even when it identifies the specific project, it doesn't know C#.", "excerpt": "Even when it identifies the specific project, it doesn't know C#. I took some scans of some notable CMS websites (so the programming language is provably correct). WordPress.org (PHP, correctly identified language and framework): https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/88fcab24-5e27-4c77-8ace-9439ea92bf3d/summary Orchard Core (C#, Modern .Net, correctly identified framework): https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/88adbf69-c010", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review"}]}], "who": [], "tags": [], "use_cases": ["bot traffic analytics", "viewing bot vs human traffic", "internet traffic monitoring", "internet traffic and os share data", "measuring page weight"], "compared": [], "makers": [{"id": 762845888, "item_id": 47677868, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47677868", "by": "bwesterb", "date": "2026-04-07", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "We added stats on origin support for post-quantum encryption.", "excerpt": "Waiting now means rushing even more close to the deadline! We added stats on origin support for post-quantum encryption. Not as much support as browsers of course, but better than I expected. Still a long road (and authentication!). https://radar.cloudflare.com/post-quantum", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare targets 2029 for full post-quantum security"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50041619", "title": "Bot traffic from Yandex", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992994", "title": "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48387144", "title": "Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48285988", "title": "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193578", "title": "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz", "mentions": 1}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894", "title": "IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time", "mentions": 1}], "sentiment_by_month": {"2025-11": {"neutral": 1}, "2025-12": {"warn": 1}, "2026-01": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-02": {}, "2026-03": {}, "2026-04": {"recommend": 1}, "2026-05": {"neutral": 1, "recommend": 1}, "2026-06": {"neutral": 1}, "2026-07": {}, "2026-08": {}, "2026-09": {}, "2026-10": {"warn": 1, "neutral": 2}}, "versions": [], "version_unnamed": 0, "quotes": [{"id": 800678656, "item_id": 50042416, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042416", "by": "throwaw12", "date": "2026-10-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Someone needs to learn how to read the Bot Traffic page.", "excerpt": "Someone needs to learn how to read the Bot Traffic page. That is a drop in traffic specifically from Yandex bots (which includes their crawlers and other apps hosted in their DC) Now compare it with Bot Traffic in: * Russia: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d * Europe: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/europe?dateRange=7d * Worldwide: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots?dateRange=7d Dip is barely noticea", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bot traffic from Yandex"}, {"id": 800677488, "item_id": 50042343, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042343", "by": "timr", "date": "2026-10-11", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Looking at the same graph for all of Russia, and there's no discernible pattern", "excerpt": "Isn't this showing the percentage of bot traffic from the Yandex IP range? If so, it isn't particularly surprising that the line would go down. EDIT: yes, it is. Looking at the same graph for all of Russia, and there's no discernible pattern: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=7d same for the 48h view: https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots/ru?dateRange=2d", "context": "", "use_case": "Bot traffic analytics", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bot traffic from Yandex"}, {"id": 800302048, "item_id": 50018878, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50018878", "by": "Gracana", "date": "2026-10-09", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "your domain is marked \"newly seen\" on cloudflare, which results in it being blocked by Ubiquiti Unifi domain filtering", "excerpt": "FYI your domain is marked \"newly seen\" on cloudflare, which results in it being blocked by Ubiquiti Unifi domain filtering. $ dig NS naturalsystems.io @1.1.1.1 [...] ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available [...] ;; AUTHORITY SECTION: naturalsystems.io. 3600 IN SOA block.unifi.local. 0. 7200 900 1209600 86400 0 You can submit to have it re-categorized using the link below. https://radar.cloudflare.com/domain", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "ETH-68: Ethernet Audio Interface for Linux"}, {"id": 774216512, "item_id": 48388532, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388532", "by": "ChrisArchitect", "date": "2026-06-03", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "On the Traffic page it is showing Bots more than Human,", "excerpt": "On the Traffic page it is showing Bots more than Human, but on the Bot page it's the opposite: 65.9% Human vs 34.1% Bot https://radar.cloudflare.com/bots?dateRange=7d ?", "context": "", "use_case": "Viewing bot vs human traffic", "switched_from": "", "story": "Bots have now passed human traffic online for the first time"}, {"id": 772576944, "item_id": 48286059, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48286059", "by": "Bender", "date": "2026-05-26", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Based on Cloudflare's Radar dashboard it may be.", "excerpt": "Based on Cloudflare's Radar dashboard it may be. [1] I don't know if there is a better public dashboard. Perhaps someone from Cloudflare or ThousandEyes could share a better graph. Tehran specific [2] [1] - https://radar.cloudflare.com/ir [2] - https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic/110791", "context": "", "use_case": "Internet traffic monitoring", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran president ends Internet blackout, orders access to be restored"}, {"id": 771175088, "item_id": 48198443, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198443", "by": "bilekas", "date": "2026-05-19", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic", "excerpt": "To play devil's advocate, the majority of the internet traffic in general is US company based. So it stands to reason any disruption would impact them the most. EDit : https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic I know cloudflare is not everything, but it's a good bellwether.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"}, {"id": 764728432, "item_id": 47795527, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795527", "by": "zokier", "date": "2026-04-16", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "CloudFlare Radar has stats for desktop (34%) vs mobile (46%) adoption", "excerpt": "CloudFlare Radar has stats for desktop (34%) vs mobile (46%) adoption: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=ip_version&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop%252CbotClass%253DLikely_Human", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "IPv6 Traffic Crosses the 50% Mark for the First Time"}, {"id": 761778432, "item_id": 47611152, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47611152", "by": "zokier", "date": "2026-04-02", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones", "excerpt": "Of the publicly available sources I think CloudFlares Radar is one of the better ones. Silver linings of having such wide dragnet on the internet. It puts Linux market share at 3-4%, with some regional variance https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=os&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop%252CbotClass%253DLikely_Human Fun tidbits, Finland is at ~10% (!), and Germany at 6.3%.", "context": "", "use_case": "Internet traffic and OS share data", "switched_from": "", "story": "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"}, {"id": 749084561, "item_id": 46817785, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46817785", "by": "shmeeed", "date": "2026-01-29", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I suggest referring to Cloudflare instead", "excerpt": "Statcounter isn't just \"not fully accurate\", it's a hot dump of analytics garbage, at least for this purpose. Take your time to reflect on these diagrams - what's happening there? What's the 55% \"unknown\", and what does that tell you about the quality of those stats? (I've commented on this problem before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46472324 ) I suggest referring to Cloudflare instead: https://radar.cloudfl", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"}, {"id": 743850657, "item_id": 46490666, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46490666", "by": "shmeeed", "date": "2026-01-04", "version": null, "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Cloudflare is a better alternative", "excerpt": "Cloudflare is a better alternative: https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&loc=&dt=52w&filters=deviceType%253DDesktop&groupBy=os", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"}, {"id": 740981872, "item_id": 46311367, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46311367", "by": "DoctorOW", "date": "2025-12-18", "version": null, "stance": "warn", "quote": "Even when it identifies the specific project, it doesn't know C#.", "excerpt": "Even when it identifies the specific project, it doesn't know C#. I took some scans of some notable CMS websites (so the programming language is provably correct). WordPress.org (PHP, correctly identified language and framework): https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/88fcab24-5e27-4c77-8ace-9439ea92bf3d/summary Orchard Core (C#, Modern .Net, correctly identified framework): https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/88adbf69-c010", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Cloudflare Radar 2025 Year in Review"}, {"id": 733057248, "item_id": 45816078, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45816078", "by": "genezeta", "date": "2025-11-04", "version": null, "stance": "neutral", "quote": "You're supposed to do a \"Cloudflare URL Scan\"", "excerpt": "> I would be interested to know how they define web resources. They explain things in the FAQ. You're supposed to do a \"Cloudflare URL Scan\" and read the \"Total bytes\". For HN this is 47kB [1], which, yes, is just the 6 requests needed for / and nothing more. [1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/scan/4c2b759c-b690-44f0-b108-b95a7bdf1c18/summary", "context": "", "use_case": "Measuring page weight", "switched_from": "", "story": "The 512KB Club"}]}