Fastly AI Visibility Integration
A native Fastly connection for Finseo Bot Traffic is coming soon. It will bring AI crawler requests from your Fastly services into the same dashboard as Cloudflare and Akamai. Until it ships, server logs and the NDJSON push cover the same ground.
Bot Traffic · via Fastly
Preview1,420
visits · last 7 days
AI crawlers · last 7 days
GPTBot detected
Training · from Ashburn, US · 312 visits
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Overview
AI crawler tracking with Fastly.
AI crawler tracking with Fastly is coming soon; until then, server logs show which AI crawlers such as GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot fetch your pages. The Fastly integration is in preparation and not yet available to connect.
01
Crawler coverage across Fastly services
Once connected, see whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot reach your product, pricing, and documentation pages on Fastly, or stop at the homepage.
02
Find blocked or absent crawlers
If Google-Extended or OAI-SearchBot never shows up in Bot Traffic, a VCL rule, robots.txt directive, or bot protection setting is likely blocking it.
03
Tie crawls to AI citations
Compare the pages OAI-SearchBot and Perplexity-User fetch with the sources ChatGPT and Perplexity cite for your tracked prompts.
04
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.
05
Start now, switch later
Data you send today through Server Logs / API stays in your Bot Traffic project. When the Fastly connection launches, overlapping visits are deduplicated, so history and the new feed sit together.
Examples
How teams use Fastly with Finseo.
Four examples of what happens in Finseo once Fastly 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
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
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
Blocked96
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
Comparison
Fastly alone vs Fastly with Finseo.
How using Fastly on its own compares to pairing it with Finseo for AI visibility and attribution.
Native Fastly connection
Fastly alone
Not available yet
Fastly + Finseo
Coming soon on the Bot Traffic Sync tab
AI crawler visibility today
Fastly alone
Invisible to JavaScript analytics
Fastly + Finseo
Via NDJSON push or access log upload
Filtering
Fastly alone
Write your own User-Agent rules
Fastly + Finseo
Finseo keeps only known crawler requests
Duplicates
Fastly alone
Separate tools per source
Fastly + Finseo
One project, visits deduplicated across sources
Edge vs origin
Fastly alone
Origin logs miss cached responses
Fastly + Finseo
Send edge-side requests through the push endpoint
How it connects
How the Fastly AI visibility integration works.
Why it matters
Why Fastly customers need AI visibility tracking.
Fastly delivers many high-traffic sites at the edge, and the edge is where AI crawler behavior is fully visible. GPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot do not run JavaScript, so tag-based analytics shows no AI crawler activity at all.
Start with server logsBot Traffic · via Fastly
Preview
1,420 visits
Step 01
Check the status in Finseo
In Finseo, open Bot Traffic, Sync. The Fastly card shows Coming Soon. There is no Fastly-specific setup yet, so use the Server Logs / API connection in the meantime.
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
Prepare crawler requests as NDJSON
From your existing log pipeline, write one JSON object per 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
Alternative: upload origin logs
If you only have origin server logs, upload .log or .txt files in Bot Traffic. Keep in mind they contain only requests that reached the origin, not responses served from the Fastly cache.
FAQ
Fastly and AI search visibility.
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Upload the access logs your web server already writes, or push bot requests as NDJSON, and see which pages the crawlers behind ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Bing actually fetch. No CDN integration required.
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