CD
Cloudflare Developers•4mo ago
TWEL

Bot fight mode blocks Google

Hi there, I am trying to add google analytics on a website, but strugling to pass checks in a dashboard. The thing is, Google (legit google, I've checked it with a host command) is trying to access my website but being blocked by bot fight mode (free plan one). Is it better to turn off bot fight mode in case it would further block other Google's bots? ( I am trying to rank on SERP kinda). Or constantly check my logs and see if good bots are being blocked 
{
  "action": "managed_challenge",
  "clientASNDescription": "GOOGLE",
  "clientAsn": "15169",
  "clientCountryName": "US",
  "clientIP": "66.102.6.160",
  "clientRefererHost": "",
  "clientRequestHTTPHost": "THERE_WAS_MY_DOMAIN.com",
  "clientRequestHTTPMethodName": "GET",
  "clientRequestHTTPProtocol": "HTTP/1.1",
  "clientRequestPath": "/",
  "clientRequestQuery": "",
  "datetime": "2025-06-19T20:09:01Z",
  "ref": "",
  "rayName": "9525a9696dba9a2e",
  "ruleId": "bot_fight_mode",
  "description": "",
  "rulesetId": "",
  "source": "botFight",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.68 Mobile Safari/537.36",
  "matchIndex": 0,
  "metadata": [],
  "sampleInterval": 1
}
{
  "action": "managed_challenge",
  "clientASNDescription": "GOOGLE",
  "clientAsn": "15169",
  "clientCountryName": "US",
  "clientIP": "66.102.6.160",
  "clientRefererHost": "",
  "clientRequestHTTPHost": "THERE_WAS_MY_DOMAIN.com",
  "clientRequestHTTPMethodName": "GET",
  "clientRequestHTTPProtocol": "HTTP/1.1",
  "clientRequestPath": "/",
  "clientRequestQuery": "",
  "datetime": "2025-06-19T20:09:01Z",
  "ref": "",
  "rayName": "9525a9696dba9a2e",
  "ruleId": "bot_fight_mode",
  "description": "",
  "rulesetId": "",
  "source": "botFight",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 6.0.1; Nexus 5X Build/MMB29P) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/137.0.7151.68 Mobile Safari/537.36",
  "matchIndex": 0,
  "metadata": [],
  "sampleInterval": 1
}
2 Replies
Hard@Work
Hard@Work•4mo ago
Free plan bot fight mode is not configurable, it is either on, or it is off. In your case, you would probably want to turn it off, and then make your own firewall rules to surgically target requests you don't want
TWEL
TWELOP•4mo ago
Thank you for reply. Yep, bot fight have to go then 🫡

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