I’m brand new to Cloudflare. I tried to open the search suggestion for my topic but won’t open.
I’m seeing “Total Requests” climb higher and higher. I’m nervous. I don’t have a site up.
I have a domain active but there isn’t anything there. I’m using the domain and Cloudflare as a tunnel to access services on my home network.
The dashboard tells me where these requests are coming from but what are they after?
I turned my server off here at home in effect causing the tunnel to error out but these requests still climb.
I have 2FA set for my Cloudflare account and to access any of my home services I’ve set some rules up. You have to verify your email with a PIN. For the email to go through it has to be in the approved list. Mine is the only one. Google Account can authenticate if it’s in the list. Mine is the only one. And the IP has to be from the USA.
Do I need more security? Are these growing requests nothing to worry about?
Thanks in advance for steering a newbie in the right direction.
The requests I was hoping to see were the actual URL’s being requested.
That level of requests, 1.11k does not seem excessive and could just be bot traffic. I would recommend, if you are concerned with it looking at configuring your firewall rules to block the traffic.
You can use the ‘Log’ action in firewall rules, so you do not block any traffic but you can then inspect the requests under the Firewall Events in order to see any patterns you would lke to block on.
Unfortunately, without more specific information about your zone, that I would not recommend sharing on the community - it does make it difficult to advise further.