We’re excited to announce a powerful set of new features designed to help you better understand visitor behavior and detect fraudulent activities. Here’s a quick look at what’s new:
- Event search API. Filter and analyze events with advanced search capabilities, including time range, bot and suspect flags, IP address, visitorId, and linkedId.
- Timeline charts (overview and Smart Signals). Gain deeper insights with visualized API usage, visitor activity, and Smart Signals trend analysis.
- Request filtering by IP address. Exclude traffic from specific IPs or IP ranges, helping you eliminate noise and avoid unnecessary billing.
- Improved virtual machine (VM) detection. More accurately detect VMs to improve fraud detection reliability.
- iCloud private relay detection. Identify iCloud private relay users and distinguish them from traditional VPN traffic.
Let’s dive into each feature and how it benefits you.
Event search API
We are thrilled to unlock deeper customization and flexibility for you with the event search API. You can now integrate event search directly into your platform, allowing you to automate workflows and build the customization you need to unlock deeper insights using our event data.
This new feature unlocks the following powerful capabilities:
- Conduct LinkedId analysis to better detect multi-accounting (previously had to be done through exporting data and manual efforts)
- Filter by suspect flag to further analyze fraud patterns
- Remove bot traffic (good, bad, or all) from queries to analyze human behavior only
The event search API includes options to filter by time range, bot and suspect flags, IP address, visitorId, and LinkedId.
📌 What’s next? Learn more in our documentation and start integrating the event search API today.
Timeline charts (overview and Smart Signals)
We’ve introduced two new timeline charts to help customers gain better visibility into their traffic trends and security events.
Dashboard timeline chart (available for all customers)
- API usage view: track API usage over time and compare it to the previous period
- Events per visitor view: analyze visitor behavior and API call frequency
- Failed requests view: identify throttled and restricted API calls over time
- Requests per second (RPS) view: monitor peak and average RPS, detecting potential throttling events
Smart Signals timeline chart (available for Smart Signals users)
- Track detected signals over time, comparing events from different periods.
- View event trends, including total events, previous period counts, and percentage changes.
📌 What’s next? Log in to start exploring these new charts.
Request filtering by IP address
We’ve expanded our request filtering capabilities, allowing customers to block requests from specific IP addresses or entire IP ranges using CIDR notation. This is particularly useful for companies dealing with persistent bot attacks or unnecessary traffic from internal automated testing environments.
By filtering traffic at the source, teams can prevent unwanted requests from affecting their analytics, reduce false positives in fraud detection, and avoid incurring charges from known bad actors. Whether you’re mitigating a targeted attack or refining internal traffic monitoring, this feature gives you greater control over which requests reach your system.
📌 What’s next? Learn more in our documentation, or log in to start using these new filters today.
Improved virtual machine (VM) detection
Virtual machines (VMs) are often used to mask fraudulent activity. Our latest update enhances VM detection by incorporating a set of signals that detect capabilities available only on hardware and not on virtual machines.
This means security teams can now identify a wider range of VM users, providing better fraud detection accuracy. Since VMs are rarely used for legitimate consumer activity, this update strengthens defenses against fraud rings and automated abuse while reducing false positives for real users.
📌 What’s next? This improvement is now live for Smart Signals users. Log in to explore enhanced VM detection today.
iCloud Private Relay detection
Apple’s iCloud Private Relay encrypts and anonymizes user traffic, making it harder to track users based on their IP addresses. Now, we’ve added a relay flag as part of our VPN detection suite, allowing customers to distinguish iCloud Private Relay users from traditional VPN users.
This update helps businesses differentiate between privacy-conscious users and those potentially hiding their identities for fraudulent purposes. While VPN users might require additional verification steps, iCloud Private Relay users are often legitimate customers. With this detection capability, companies can tailor their security measures accordingly, ensuring a better balance between fraud prevention and user experience.
📌 What’s next? This feature is live for Smart Signals customers. Log in to start using it today.
Get started with these new features today
These updates provide more powerful insights, better control over traffic, and enhanced fraud detection capabilities. If you are not already using our powerful Smart Signals, contact your customer success manager to learn more.
Explore these new features today in our documentation or log in to start using them.
