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2 postsJuly 2026
Half My Traffic Was Bots: A 4-Day Layered Defense Stack
A developer discovered headless bots executing JS made up half his traffic, then built a 4-day, five-layer defense using robots.txt, ISR, Redis, and Vercel BotID.
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Next.js automatically traces requests, but you need an exporter to see them. Learn how @vercel/otel sends traces to Sentry or any OTLP backend.
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