Huge visits from suspected Googlebot

This morning I received an email from vercel which says I got 75% of free tier. And I login to vercel dashboard later and see a project which seldom used received about 300k traffic from “google bot” in the past day.


and I go to “usage” and see very high usage of all sorts of services in July 15th:

This is truly not what I want. So I deleted one of these projects and I had enabled attack challenge mode but seems there is no remission for that…what should I do?

Hi @grassblock1!

Sorry to hear about this. You’ve done the right thing enabling attack challenge mode.

I’ll also share some more resources on other tactics with Vercel Firewall that you can use moving forward.

seems there is no remission for that…what should I do?

Let me see what I can do internally! Could you send me your Vercel ID?

Hey @grassblock1, we’ve identified your account and we can observe what you have shared with us.

To mitigate this in the future, @pawlean’s advice is perfect: Attack Challenge Mode and Custom Rules will help. We even have some common examples for you to check out.

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