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  1. Radar ships several new features that improve the flexibility and usability of the platform, as well as visibility into what is happening on the Internet.

    Region filtering

    All location-aware pages now support filtering by region, including continents, geographic subregions (Middle East β†—, Eastern Asia β†—, etc.), political regions (EU β†—, African Union β†—), and US Census regions/divisions (for example, New England β†—, US Northeast β†—).

    Screenshot of region filtering on Radar - Middle east

    Traffic volume by top autonomous systems and locations

    A new traffic volume view shows the top autonomous systems and countries/territories for a given location. This is useful for quickly determining which network providers in a location may be experiencing connectivity issues, or how traffic is distributed across a region.

    Screenshot of traffic volume by top autonomous systems in US

    The new AS and location dimensions have also been added to the Data Explorer β†— for the HTTP, DNS, and NetFlows datasets. Combined with other available filters, this provides a powerful tool for generating unique insights.

    Screenshot of AS and location dimensions in Data Explorer

    Finally, breadcrumb navigation is now available on most pages, allowing easier navigation between parent and related pages.

    Check out these features on Cloudflare Radar β†—.

  1. Radar now includes a Network Quality Test β†— page. The tool measures Internet connection quality and performance, showing connection details such as IP address, server location, network (ASN), and IP version. For more detailed speed test results, the page links to speed.cloudflare.com β†—.

    Screenshot of the Network Quality Test page on Radar
  1. Radar now tracks post-quantum encryption support on origin servers, provides a tool to test any host for post-quantum compatibility, and introduces a Key Transparency dashboard for monitoring end-to-end encrypted messaging audit logs.

    Post-quantum origin support

    The new Post-Quantum API provides the following endpoints:

    The new Post-Quantum Encryption β†— page shows the share of customer origins supporting X25519MLKEM768, derived from daily automated TLS scans of TLS 1.3-compatible origins. The scanner tests for algorithm support rather than the origin server's configured preference.

    Screenshot of the origin post-quantum support graph on Radar

    A host test tool allows checking any publicly accessible website for post-quantum encryption compatibility. Enter a hostname and optional port to see whether the server negotiates a post-quantum key exchange algorithm.

    Screenshot of the post-quantum host test tool on Radar

    Key Transparency

    A new Key Transparency β†— section displays the audit status of Key Transparency logs for end-to-end encrypted messaging services. The page launches with two monitored logs: WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger Transport.

    Each log card shows the current status, last signed epoch, last verified epoch, and the root hash of the Auditable Key Directory tree. The data is also available through the Key Transparency Auditor API.

    Screenshot of the Key Transparency dashboard on Radar

    Learn more about these features in our blog post β†— and check out the Post-Quantum Encryption β†— and Key Transparency β†— pages to explore the data.

  1. Radar now includes Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) β†— deployment insights, providing visibility into the adoption and verification of ASPA objects across the global routing ecosystem.

    New API endpoints

    The new ASPA API provides the following endpoints:

    New Radar widgets

    The global routing page β†— now shows the ASPA deployment trend over time by counting daily ASPA objects.

    Screenshot of the ASPA deployment trend chart

    The global routing page also displays the most recent ASPA objects, searchable by ASN or AS name.

    Screenshot of the ASPA objects table

    On country and region routing pages, a new widget shows the ASPA deployment rate for ASNs registered in the selected country or region.

    Screenshot of the ASPA deployment trent chart for Germany

    On AS routing pages, the connectivity table now includes checkmarks for ASPA-verified upstreams. All ASPA upstreams are listed in a dedicated table, and a timeline shows ASPA changes at daily granularity.

    Screenshot of the ASPA changes timeline on an AS routing page

    Check out the Radar routing page β†— to explore the data.

  1. Radar now includes content type insights for AI bot and crawler traffic. The new content_type dimension and filter shows the distribution of content types returned to AI crawlers, grouped by MIME type category.

    The content type dimension and filter are available via the following API endpoints:

    Content type categories:

    • HTML - Web pages (text/html)
    • Images - All image formats (image/*)
    • JSON - JSON data and API responses (application/json, *+json)
    • JavaScript - Scripts (application/javascript, text/javascript)
    • CSS - Stylesheets (text/css)
    • Plain Text - Unformatted text (text/plain)
    • Fonts - Web fonts (font/*, application/font-*)
    • XML - XML documents and feeds (text/xml, application/xml, application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml)
    • YAML - Configuration files (text/yaml, application/yaml)
    • Video - Video content and streaming (video/*, application/ogg, *mpegurl)
    • Audio - Audio content (audio/*)
    • Markdown - Markdown documents (text/markdown)
    • Documents - PDFs, Office documents, ePub, CSV (application/pdf, application/msword, text/csv)
    • Binary - Executables, archives, WebAssembly (application/octet-stream, application/zip, application/wasm)
    • Serialization - Binary API formats (application/protobuf, application/grpc, application/msgpack)
    • Other - All other content types

    Additionally, individual bot information pages β†— now display content type distribution for AI crawlers that exist in both the Verified Bots and AI Bots datasets.

    Screenshot of the Content Type Distribution chart on the AI Insights page

    Check out the AI Insights page β†— to explore the data.

  1. Radar introduces HTTP Origins insights, providing visibility into the status of traffic between Cloudflare's global network and cloud-based origin infrastructure.

    The new Origins API provides provides the following endpoints:

    • /origins - Lists all origins (cloud providers and associated regions).
    • /origins/{origin} - Retrieves information about a specific origin (cloud provider).
    • /origins/timeseries - Retrieves normalized time series data for a specific origin, including the following metrics:
      • REQUESTS: Number of requests
      • CONNECTION_FAILURES: Number of connection failures
      • RESPONSE_HEADER_RECEIVE_DURATION: Duration of the response header receive
      • TCP_HANDSHAKE_DURATION: Duration of the TCP handshake
      • TCP_RTT: TCP round trip time
      • TLS_HANDSHAKE_DURATION: Duration of the TLS handshake
    • /origins/summary - Retrieves HTTP requests to origins summarized by a dimension.
    • /origins/timeseries_groups - Retrieves timeseries data for HTTP requests to origins grouped by a dimension.

    The following dimensions are available for the summary and timeseries_groups endpoints:

    • region: Origin region
    • success_rate: Success rate of requests (2XX versus 5XX response codes)
    • percentile: Percentiles of metrics listed above

    Additionally, the Annotations and Traffic Anomalies APIs have been extended to support origin outages and anomalies, enabling automated detection and alerting for origin infrastructure issues.

    Screenshot of the cloud service status heatmap

    Check out the new Radar page β†—.

  1. Radar now introduces Top-Level Domain (TLD) insights, providing visibility into popularity based on the DNS magnitude metric, detailed TLD information including its type, manager, DNSSEC support, RDAP support, and WHOIS data, and trends such as DNS query volume and geographic distribution observed by the 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver.

    The following dimensions were added to the Radar DNS API, specifically, to the /dns/summary/{dimension} and /dns/timeseries_groups/{dimension} endpoints:

    • tld: Top-level domain extracted from DNS queries; can also be used as a filter.
    • tld_dns_magnitude: Top-level domain ranking by DNS magnitude.

    And the following endpoints were added:

    • /tlds - Lists all TLDs.
    • /tlds/{tld} - Retrieves information about a specific TLD.
    Screenshot of the TLD ranking by DNS magnitude

    Learn more about the new Radar DNS insights in our blog post β†—, and check out the new Radar page β†—.

  1. Radar has expanded its Certificate Transparency (CT) log insights with new stats that provide greater visibility into log activity:

    • Log growth rate: The average throughput of the CT log over the past 7 days, measured in certificates per hour.
    • Included certificate count: The total number of certificates already included in this CT log.
    • Eligible-for-inclusion certificate count: The number of certificates eligible for inclusion in this log but not yet included. This metric is based on certificates signed by trusted root CAs within the log’s accepted date range.
    • Last update: The timestamp of the most recent update to the CT log.

    These new statistics have been added to the response of the Get Certificate Log Details API endpoint, and are displayed on the CT log information page β†—.

    Screenshot of the CT log activity card on the CT log information page
  1. Radar now includes browser detection for Post-quantum (PQ) encryption. The Post-quantum encryption card β†— now checks whether a user’s browser supports post-quantum encryption. If support is detected, information about the key agreement in use is displayed.

    Screenshot of the PQ encryption browser support test on the Adoption & Usage page
  1. Radar now introduces Regional Data, providing traffic insights that bring a more localized perspective to the traffic trends shown on Radar.

    The following API endpoints are now available:

    All summary and timeseries_groups endpoints in HTTP and NetFlows now include an adm1 dimension for grouping data by first level administrative division (for example, state, province, etc.)

    A new filter geoId was also added to all endpoints in HTTP and NetFlows, allowing filtering by a specific administrative division.

    Check out the new Regional traffic insights on a country specific traffic page new Radar page β†—.

  1. Radar now introduces Certificate Transparency (CT) insights, providing visibility into certificate issuance trends based on Certificate Transparency logs currently monitored by Cloudflare.

    The following API endpoints are now available:

    For the summary and timeseries_groups endpoints, the following dimensions are available (and also usable as filters):

    • ca: Certification Authority (certificate issuer)
    • ca_owner: Certification Authority Owner
    • duration: Certificate validity duration (between NotBefore and NotAfter dates)
    • entry_type: Entry type (certificate vs. pre-certificate)
    • expiration_status: Expiration status (valid vs. expired)
    • has_ips: Presence of IP addresses in certificate Subject Alternative Names (SANs) β†—
    • has_wildcards: Presence of wildcard DNS names in certificate SANs
    • log: CT log name
    • log_api: CT log API (RFC6962 β†— vs. Static β†—)
    • log_operator: CT log operator
    • public_key_algorithm: Public key algorithm of certificate's key
    • signature_algorithm: Signature algorithm used by CA to sign certificate
    • tld: Top-level domain for DNS names found in certificates SANs
    • validation_level: Validation level β†—

    Check out the new Certificate Transparency insights in the new Radar page β†—.

  1. Web crawlers insights

    Radar now offers expanded insights into web crawlers, giving you greater visibility into aggregated trends in crawl and refer activity.

    We have introduced the following endpoints:

    These endpoints allow analysis across the following dimensions:

    • user_agent: Parsed data from the User-Agent header.
    • referer: Parsed data from the Referer header.
    • crawl_refer_ratio: Ratio of HTML page crawl requests to HTML page referrals by platform.

    Broader bot insights

    In addition to crawler-specific insights, Radar now provides a broader set of bot endpoints:

    These endpoints support filtering and breakdowns by:

    • bot: Bot name.
    • bot_operator: The organization or entity operating the bot.
    • bot_category: Classification of bot type.

    The previously available verified_bots endpoints have now been deprecated in favor of this set of bot insights APIs. While current data still focuses on verified bots, we plan to expand support for unverified bot traffic in the future.

    Learn more about the new Radar bot and crawler insights in our blog post β†—.

  1. Radar has expanded its security insights, providing visibility into aggregate trends in authentication requests, including the detection of leaked credentials through leaked credentials detection scans.

    We have now introduced the following endpoints:

    The following dimensions are available, displaying the distribution of HTTP authentication requests based on:

    • compromised: Credential status (clean vs. compromised).
    • bot_class: Bot class (human vs. bot).

    Dive deeper into leaked credential detection in this blog post β†— and learn more about the expanded Radar security insights in our blog post β†—.

  1. Radar has expanded its DNS insights, providing visibility into aggregated traffic and usage trends observed by our 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. In addition to global, location, and ASN traffic trends, we are also providing perspectives on protocol usage, query/response characteristics, and DNSSEC usage.

    Previously limited to the top locations and ASes endpoints, we have now introduced the following endpoints:

    For the summary and timeseries_groups endpoints, the following dimensions are available, displaying the distribution of DNS queries based on:

    • cache_hit: Cache status (hit vs. miss).
    • dnsssec: DNSSEC support status (secure, insecure, invalid or other).
    • dnsssec_aware: DNSSEC client awareness (aware vs. not-aware).
    • dnsssec_e2e: End-to-end security (secure vs. insecure).
    • ip_version: IP version (IPv4 vs. IPv6).
    • matching_answer: Matching answer status (match vs. no-match).
    • protocol: Transport protocol (UDP, TLS, HTTPS or TCP).
    • query_type: Query type (A, AAAA, PTR, etc.).
    • response_code: Response code (NOERROR, NXDOMAIN, REFUSED, etc.).
    • response_ttl: Response TTL.

    Learn more about the new Radar DNS insights in our blog post β†—, and check out the new Radar page β†—.

  1. Radar has expanded its AI insights with new API endpoints for Internet services rankings, robots.txt analysis, and AI inference data.

    Internet services ranking

    Radar now provides rankings for Internet services, including Generative AI platforms, based on anonymized 1.1.1.1 resolver data. Previously limited to the annual Year in Review, these insights are now available daily via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Robots.txt

    Radar now analyzes robots.txt files from the top 10,000 domains, identifying AI bot access rules. AI-focused user agents from ai.robots.txt β†— are categorized as:

    • Fully allowed/disallowed if directives apply to all paths (*).
    • Partially allowed/disallowed if restrictions apply to specific paths.

    These insights are now available weekly via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Workers AI

    Radar now provides insights into public AI inference models from Workers AI, tracking usage trends across models and tasks. These insights are now available via the API, through the following endpoints:

    Learn more about the new Radar AI insights in our blog post β†—.