Does Finseo have an AWS CloudFront integration?

A native AWS CloudFront integration via CloudWatch is coming soon. In the Finseo app it appears as a Coming Soon card on the Bot Traffic Sync tab. Until then, CloudFront users can push AI crawler requests as NDJSON through the Server Logs / API connection and see them in Bot Traffic next to Cloudflare and Akamai data.

What will the CloudFront integration do?

It is meant to analyze bot traffic from CloudFront via AWS CloudWatch and bring AI and search crawler requests into Finseo Bot Traffic, like the Cloudflare and Akamai connections. You would see which pages GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and Google-Extended fetch, how often, and with which status codes.

How can I track AI crawlers on CloudFront today?

Use the Server Logs / API connection under Bot Traffic, Sync. Finseo provides an endpoint and a Bearer token. Convert crawler requests from your log pipeline into NDJSON with ClientIP, ClientRequestUserAgent, ClientRequestPath, and EdgeStartTimestamp, and push them plaintext or gzip. Batches are deduplicated server-side, so retries are safe.

Can I upload CloudFront log files directly?

The log upload detects common nginx and Apache access log layouts, so CloudFront log files in their own format are not a direct fit. Convert the relevant crawler requests into NDJSON and push them through Server Logs / API instead. Origin server logs in nginx or Apache format can be uploaded as .log or .txt files.

Will data I send now be lost when the CloudFront integration launches?

No. Crawler visits sent through Server Logs / API or uploaded as logs stay in your Bot Traffic project. Finseo deduplicates visits by crawler, timestamp, IP address, and page path across sources, so when a native CloudFront feed is added later, overlapping requests are not counted twice.

Why does web analytics not show AI crawlers on CloudFront sites?

AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot do not execute JavaScript, so tag-based analytics never records them. Their requests only show up in edge and server logs. Finseo turns those logs into per-crawler, per-page data, which gives Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) work evidence of what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity read.

Is there a GEO tool that works with AWS CloudFront?

Finseo is a Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform whose native CloudFront connection via CloudWatch is coming soon. It already works with CloudFront-delivered sites through the NDJSON push, turning crawler requests into Bot Traffic data and comparing what crawlers fetch with the sources ChatGPT and Perplexity cite.

Why does AI crawler tracking matter for AEO and GEO?

An AI engine can only cite a page its crawlers can read. Bot Traffic shows which crawlers reach which pages, sorted by purpose (live answer, search index, training), and where they are blocked or hit errors, so you can fix access before it costs you visibility in ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity.

AWS CloudFront AI Visibility Integration

A native AWS CloudFront connection via CloudWatch is coming soon to Finseo Bot Traffic. It will show which pages the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini fetch from your distributions. Until then, the NDJSON push covers the same ground.

AWS CloudFront docs

Bot Traffic · via AWS CloudFront

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1,420

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Live answerSearch indexTraining

Bot Traffic · via AWS CloudFront

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1,420

visits · last 7 days

Live answerSearch indexTraining

AI crawlers · last 7 days

GPTBot detected

Training · from Ashburn, US · 312 visits

Built by: Finseo
Category: Bot Traffic
Connection: OAuth
Resources: Website Docs

Overview

AI crawler tracking with AWS CloudFront.

AI crawler tracking with AWS CloudFront is coming soon; until then, server logs show which AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot fetch your pages. The AWS CloudFront integration is in preparation and not yet available to connect.

Crawler coverage across distributions

Once connected, see whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot reach every site behind your CloudFront distributions or stop at the homepage.

Find blocked or absent crawlers

If Google-Extended or OAI-SearchBot never appears in Bot Traffic, an AWS WAF rule, robots.txt directive, or bot protection setting is likely blocking it.

Tie crawls to AI citations

Compare the pages OAI-SearchBot and Claude-SearchBot fetch with the sources ChatGPT and Claude cite for your tracked prompts.

Monitor status codes for AI bots

Bot Traffic breaks responses down by crawler, so redirects, 404s, and 5xx errors that stop Gemini or Microsoft Copilot from reading a page surface quickly, whichever source delivered the request data.

Start now, switch later

Crawler visits you push today through Server Logs / API stay in your Bot Traffic project. When the CloudFront connection launches, overlapping visits are deduplicated, so history and the new feed sit together.

Examples

How teams use AWS CloudFront with Finseo.

Four examples of what happens in Finseo once AWS CloudFront is connected, shown with the fields and labels from the app.

01 Example A

Who reads your pages

Every visit is sorted by purpose: live answers while someone asks, the search index, or model training.

/pricing · by purpose

ChatGPT-UserLive answer142

OAI-SearchBotSearch index118

GPTBotTraining52

02 Example B

Where crawlers come from

Countries and data-centre cities of the bots' servers, so you know which regions your firewall must let through.

Bot server locations

🇺🇸Ashburn, US41 %

🇮🇪Dublin, IE18 %

🇩🇪Frankfurt, DE9 %

03 Example C

Blocked crawlers, flagged

401, 403 and 429 answers show up as Blocked, with what it means and which rule to change.

Errors & Blocks

Blocked

ClaudeBot requests answered with 403

Check firewall and bot-manager rules for ClaudeBot

04 Example D

Crawl budget

See how much of each crawler's time goes to content pages, technical endpoints, assets or robots.txt and llms.txt.

Crawl Budget · PerplexityBot

52 % Content pages

30 % Technical endpoints

10 % Assets

8 % robots.txt & llms.txt

/pricing · by purpose

ChatGPT-UserLive answer142

OAI-SearchBotSearch index118

GPTBotTraining52

Comparison

AWS CloudFront alone vs AWS CloudFront with Finseo.

How using AWS CloudFront on its own compares to pairing it with Finseo for AI visibility and attribution.

Native CloudFront connection

AWS CloudFront alone

Not available yet

AWS CloudFront + Finseo

Coming soon via AWS CloudWatch

AI crawler visibility today

AWS CloudFront alone

Invisible to JavaScript analytics

AWS CloudFront + Finseo

Via NDJSON push to the Finseo endpoint

Filtering

AWS CloudFront alone

Write your own User-Agent rules

AWS CloudFront + Finseo

Finseo keeps only known crawler requests

Duplicates

AWS CloudFront alone

Separate tools per source

AWS CloudFront + Finseo

One project, visits deduplicated across sources

Edge vs origin

AWS CloudFront alone

Origin logs miss cached responses

AWS CloudFront + Finseo

Send edge-side requests through the push endpoint

Feature	AWS CloudFront alone	AWS CloudFront + Finseo
Native CloudFront connection	Not available yet	Coming soon via AWS CloudWatch
AI crawler visibility today	Invisible to JavaScript analytics	Via NDJSON push to the Finseo endpoint
Filtering	Write your own User-Agent rules	Finseo keeps only known crawler requests
Duplicates	Separate tools per source	One project, visits deduplicated across sources
Edge vs origin	Origin logs miss cached responses	Send edge-side requests through the push endpoint

How it connects

How the AWS CloudFront AI visibility integration works.

Why it matters

Why AWS CloudFront customers need AI visibility tracking.

Many sites on AWS are delivered through CloudFront, so the edge is the most complete record of what AI crawlers request. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot do not run JavaScript, which means tag-based analytics shows zero AI crawler activity.

Start with server logs

Bot Traffic · via AWS CloudFront

Preview

1,420 visits

Live answer46 %

Search index38 %

Training16 %

Top: Ashburn, US6 crawlers

GPTBot

ClaudeBot

PerplexityBot

Google-Extended

Bingbot

Applebot

Bot Traffic · via AWS CloudFront

Preview

1,420 visits

Live answer46 %

Search index38 %

Training16 %

Top: Ashburn, US6 crawlers

How to connect

Connect AWS CloudFront to Finseo.

In 5 steps, no code required.

Start with server logs

Step 01
Check the status in Finseo
In Finseo, open Bot Traffic, Sync. The AWS CloudFront, CloudWatch card shows Coming Soon. There is no CloudFront-specific setup yet, so use the Server Logs / API connection for now.
Step 02
Connect Server Logs / API
Click Connect on the Server Logs / API card. Finseo shows an endpoint URL and an Authorization header with a Bearer token, along with a curl example for pushing batches.
Step 03
Map log fields to NDJSON
In your existing log pipeline, write one JSON object per crawler request with at least ClientIP, ClientRequestUserAgent, ClientRequestPath, and EdgeStartTimestamp. Status, bytes, host, and referrer enrich the dashboard.
Step 04
Push batches to Finseo
POST the NDJSON to the endpoint, plaintext or gzip, hourly or more often. Retries are safe because batches are deduplicated server-side. The card switches to Connected after the first push.
Step 05
Review crawlers in Bot Traffic
Open Bot Traffic to see crawled pages, crawl frequency, and status codes per crawler. When the native CloudFront connection launches, it will feed the same project.

FAQ

AWS CloudFront and AI search visibility.

Finseo identifies known AI and search crawlers, including GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Perplexity-User, Google-Extended, Googlebot, Bingbot, Applebot, and Amazonbot. Only requests from recognized crawlers are stored. Regular visitor requests are discarded, whichever source delivers the data, so Bot Traffic shows crawler activity per page without the noise of human sessions.