There is some strange data in the "Overview" tab of my domain

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There is some strange data in the “Overview” tab of my domain.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

Hey guys,

I have a website hosted on DigitalOcean. Previously, my domain was simply pointing there.

About six months ago, I decided to use Cloudflare. I have a Pro Plan.
I set everything up quickly and smoothly, but I’m noticing some strange behavior that I can’t explain. Maybe someone can help me with this.

First issue:
In the “Overview” section of my domain on Cloudflare, I see about 50 unique visitors per day. However, in reality, I have around 5,000 according to Google Analytics.

I have other domains that use Cloudflare and are hosted elsewhere, and their statistics more or less match Google Analytics.

Second issue:
Some of the features I’m trying to configure behave VERY strangely. For example:

  1. I tried setting up Security Rules. I selected my own country and set the Action to “Interactive Challenge”.
    I tried triggering this challenge multiple times using different devices, incognito browser tabs, mobile and wired internet, and proxies (from my own country). I also tested automation tools like Puppeteer.
    I only saw the challenge once. It feels like most of the traffic is bypassing Cloudflare.

  2. I have IP Geolocation enabled, but I never see this field in the request headers. Not even once.

Any ideas what could be going on?

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Well, I want to add that I have all possible anti-bot protection functions active. But if I use the default pupetter and receive data from the site without any problems.

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Can you show the DNS records you are using to point to your host? I think some Digital Ocean services use Cloudflare. If that is the case and you are using A/AAAA records to point to them, the requests won’t pass through your Cloudflare account to be counted or have features applied.

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A - 162.159.140.98, 172.66.0.96
AAAA - 2606:4700:7::60, 2a06:98c1:58::60

I checked, they are the same A/AAAA as in DigitalOcean.

In general, all the records are the same. They were simply copied to Cloudflare after I added the domain there.

I did not make any changes after I added the domain to CF

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These IP addresses belong to Cloudflare, so Digital Ocean are using Cloudflare for the service you are using. So as I suggested above, the requests aren’t passing through your Cloudflare account but going direct to Digital Ocean.

If DO use Cloudflare for SaaS, you can ask them if they can give you a CNAME you can use instead.

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