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Cloudflare Traffic Auditor

Explain traffic and security changes without exposing visitor identities

Cloudflare Traffic Auditor turns bounded zone analytics into a privacy-conscious traffic and security evidence brief without changing Cloudflare configuration.

It reads Cloudflare's current adaptive HTTP-request and firewall-event datasets for one explicitly connected zone. Traffic totals preserve sampling notes. Security reads deliberately omit IP addresses, paths, query strings, and user agents. Comparisons state what changed while refusing to turn correlation into a deployment, outage, campaign, or attack diagnosis.

What you can do

  • summarize_traffic β€” read estimated requests, visits, bytes, and hourly groups
  • inspect_security_events β€” group recent rule actions by source, action, and country
  • compare_traffic β€” calculate transparent changes across two explicit UTC windows
  • build_incident_brief β€” combine supplied observations with safe next checks

Who it's for

Site operators, security teams, agencies, developers, incident leads, and founders answering β€œwhat changed?” before touching DNS, cache, WAF, or firewall settings.

How to use it

  1. Connect a zone-scoped token with Zone Analytics Read permission
  2. Query a short explicit UTC range and preserve the sampling note
  3. Compare equal windows before escalating a change
  4. Review non-identifying security-event groups and any query cap
  5. Validate hypotheses against origin logs and application telemetry

Getting started

Start with a 24-hour traffic summary and a 200-event security sample. The tool is read-only and never edits DNS, WAF rules, cache settings, rate limits, firewall configuration, or zone state.

Information

Price
From $0.01
Billing
The final price is shown before running. Failed paid calls do not charge.
Provider
Cloudflare
Cloudflare API Token
Zone-scoped API token with Zone Analytics Read permission and no edit scopes. Β· Get key
Cloudflare Zone ID
Exact zone identifier whose traffic and security analytics may be read.

Example workflows

Investigate a Cloudflare traffic change safely

Compare sampled traffic and non-identifying security evidence before touching production configuration.

  1. Call `summarize_traffic` for the exact UTC incident window.
  2. Run `compare_traffic` against an equal baseline and `inspect_security_events` with a bounded cap.
  3. Use `build_incident_brief`, then validate against origin and application telemetry.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can Cloudflare Traffic Auditor explain a traffic spike?

It can quantify sampled request, visit, byte, and firewall-action changes across explicit UTC windows, but it does not claim an attack, outage, deployment, or campaign caused the movement.

Does the Cloudflare security query return visitor IP addresses?

No. It deliberately omits IP addresses, request paths, query strings, and user agents and requests only action, source, country, ASN, and timestamp evidence.

Can it change Cloudflare DNS, WAF, cache, or firewall settings?

No. It uses Zone Analytics Read data only and has no mutation path for DNS, cache, rate limits, WAF rules, firewall configuration, or zone state.

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