Radar

What took the Internet offline in Q3 2026 Blog

An examination of global Internet disruptions observed by Cloudflare Radar during the third quarter of 2026. This review analyzes how power failures, natural disasters, and government shutdowns impacted network connectivity and traffic.

Redesigned Cloudflare Radar homepage

The Cloudflare Radar homepage has been redesigned to make global Internet data easier to explore for broader audiences, including journalists, policymakers, and everyday users, while preserving the depth that technical users rely on. Interactive map: Shows Internet traffic and outages around the world, and acts as a starting point for exploring specific countries and trends. Curated insights sect…

Continuous accountability for Verified bots Blog

Identity alone doesn't guarantee a bot will behave responsibly. We are introducing a system to continuously evaluate whether Verified bots honor site preferences, like robots.txt and HTTP 429s, ensuring they remain accountable over time.

Radar search now includes Internet events

Cloudflare Radar search now includes Internet events and outages alongside existing results. Search event descriptions or related entities, such as locations, ASes, bots, and top-level domains, to find relevant events and open the most relevant Radar view. Event links preserve the event date range, making it easier to investigate what changed before, during, and after an event. These results are…

Radar Researcher adds richer sources and URL Scanner explanations

Cloudflare Radar expands the Radar Researcher ↗︎ beta with richer sources and new ways to investigate Internet data. Connected insights Radar Researcher responses can now link to relevant Radar pages, reports, and Cloudflare Blog posts. URL Scanner report explanations Select Explain with AI on a URL Scanner report ↗︎ to have Radar Researcher explain its findings and answer follow-up questions abo…

RPKI ASPA path validation on Cloudflare Radar

Radar adds an ASPA validation tool ↗︎ to its Routing section ↗︎. Enter a BGP AS_PATH and the tool checks it against the Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) ↗︎ records currently published in the RPKI, returning a verdict of Valid, Invalid, or Unknown. An Invalid verdict means no chain of provider authorizations covers the whole path, which is the signature of a route leak. Validation f…

AS-level connectivity and upstream providers on Cloudflare Radar

Radar expands its Routing section ↗︎ with two widgets on AS pages, such as AS13335 ↗︎, that describe how a network reaches the rest of the Internet: the paths it takes toward the Tier-1 ↗︎ networks, and the mix of direct upstreams carrying its routes. Both are derived from RouteViews ↗︎ RIB snapshots, unioned across selected collectors. AS-level connectivity The AS-level connectivity graph aggreg…

Radar Researcher beta and WebMCP support now available

Cloudflare Radar now includes Radar Researcher ↗︎, a beta AI-powered assistant for exploring Internet trends and traffic data in plain language. Open Researcher from the header on any Radar page to ask questions by voice or text, receive explanations, and view interactive charts based on Radar API data. To ask about a specific chart, select Explain with AI to start a conversation with its underly…

Precise IP location and richer AS details on the Cloudflare Radar IP page

Radar now plots your IPv4 and IPv6 locations on the IP page ↗︎, shows the Cloudflare data centers serving your connection, and includes more detail about the autonomous system (AS) your primary IP belongs to. Your IP location on the map The map of your connection now shows: IP location markers — The primary IP will show as a red marker. When both IP addresses do not geolocate to the same place, a…

Updated Workers AI popularity metric in Cloudflare Radar

Radar has changed how it measures Workers AI model and task popularity. Previously, popularity was based on the number of unique accounts running inferences against each model or task. It is now based on the number of inferences, giving a more representative view of actual usage volume. This change will affect all new measurements as well as historical data. As a result, the model and task distri…

Finer-grained chart granularity on Cloudflare Radar for longer time ranges

Radar now provides finer-grained traffic charts for longer time ranges. Previously, selecting a 1-3 month view on HTTP and NetFlows charts defaulted to weekly aggregation, which was too coarse to surface meaningful trends. Views longer than 3 months defaulted to monthly aggregation, returning as few as 7 data points for a 6-month range. The new defaults are: 1-3 months: daily granularity (7x more…

TLS bug detection in the Cloudflare Radar post-quantum checker

The Radar post-quantum TLS support checker ↗︎ now also reports TLS bugs detected during the handshake test. When a scanned host exhibits compatibility issues, the results include details on the specific bugs detected, along with guidance on how to investigate and remediate each issue. The bugs section only appears for hosts where issues are found. The following TLS bugs are detected: Split Client…

Content type distribution and API traffic share on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes two new charts on the traffic page ↗︎ that provide deeper insights into the composition of HTTP traffic: a content type distribution chart and an API traffic share chart. Content type distribution The new Content type ↗︎ chart displays the distribution of HTTP response content types, grouped into high-level categories. A traffic type selector allows filtering by human, bot, or…

MRT Explorer on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes an MRT Explorer ↗︎ tool in the Routing section. Route collectors like RIPE RIS and RouteViews publish MRT (Multi-Threaded Routing Toolkit) dump files containing BGP announcements, withdrawals, and route attributes. The new tool parses these files entirely in the browser — nothing gets uploaded. Loading a file Paste a URL to fetch an MRT file remotely, drag and drop one onto the…

TLD Nameserver Performance in Cloudflare Radar

Radar now provides TLD authoritative nameserver performance insights, measuring response time (latency) as observed from Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 resolver infrastructure when forwarding queries upstream to TLD nameservers. New widgets on TLD detail pages ↗︎: Aggregate nameserver latency ↗︎: Response time percentiles (p25/p50/p75) for all authoritative nameservers of the selected TLD. Latency per name…

New routing widgets on Cloudflare Radar

Radar is expanding its Routing section ↗︎ with two new widgets that give a deeper view into how networks announce address space and how RPKI ROA coverage evolves over time. Top ASes by announced IP space on country pages Country routing pages now include a Top ASes by announced IP space chart, breaking down the IPv4 and IPv6 address space announced from a country across the autonomous systems tha…

Cloud Observatory connection metrics improvements

The Cloud Observatory ↗︎ on Radar now provides improved connection metric insights, offering new ways to explore TCP round-trip time, TCP handshake duration, TLS handshake duration, and response header receive duration across cloud provider origin servers. The Cloud Observatory overview ↗︎ now shows connection metrics broken down by cloud provider, making it easy to compare connection performance…

Dark mode support on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now supports dark mode. A theme selector in the upper right corner of the page lets users explicitly choose between three display options: Light — standard light theme Dark — full dark theme System — follows the operating system preference The selected theme applies consistently across all Radar pages and widgets. The theme choice also applies to shared and embedded graphs. Try it out at Cl…

AI Insights updates on Cloudflare Radar

Radar adds three new features to the AI Insights ↗︎ page, expanding visibility into how AI bots, crawlers, and agents interact with the web. Adoption of AI agent standards The AI Insights page now includes an adoption of AI agent standards ↗︎ widget that tracks how websites adopt agent-facing standards. The data is filterable by domain category and updated weekly on Mondays. This data is also ava…

Generate citations on Cloudflare Radar

Radar shareable widgets now include a generate citation action, making it easier to reference Cloudflare Radar ↗︎ data in research papers and other publications. Select the citation icon to open a modal with five supported citation styles: BibTeX APA MLA Chicago RIS Explore the feature on any shareable widget at Cloudflare Radar ↗︎.

Routing Section Expansion on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now features an expanded Routing section ↗︎ with dedicated sub-pages, providing a more organized and in-depth view of the global routing ecosystem. This restructuring lays the groundwork for additional routing features and widgets coming in the near future. Dedicated sub-pages The single Routing page has been split into three focused sub-pages: Overview ↗︎ — Routing statistics, IP address s…

URL Scanner improvements on Cloudflare Radar

Radar ships several improvements to the URL Scanner ↗︎ that make scan reports more informative and easier to share: Live screenshots — the summary card now includes an option to capture a live screenshot of the scanned URL on demand using the Browser Rendering API. Save as PDF — a new button generates a print-optimized document aggregating all tab contents (Summary, Security, Network, Behavior, a…

Region Filtering, AS Traffic Volume, and Navigation Improvements on Cloudflare Radar

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 ↗︎, Eastern Asia ↗︎, etc.), political regions (EU ↗︎, African Union ↗︎), and US Census regions/divisions (for ex…

Network Quality Test on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes a Network Quality Test ↗︎ 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 ↗︎.

Post-Quantum Encryption and Key Transparency on Cloudflare Radar

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: /post_quantum/tls/support - Tests whether a host supports post-quantum TLS ke…

RPKI ASPA Deployment Insights on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) ↗︎ 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: /bgp/rpki/aspa/snapshot - Retrieves current or historical ASPA objects. /bgp/rpki/aspa/changes - Retrieves changes to ASPA objects…

Content Type Dimension for AI Bots in Cloudflare Radar

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: /ai/bots/summary/content_type /ai/bots/timeseries_groups/content_type Content type categories: HTML - W…

Cloud Services Observability in Cloudflare Radar

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/timeserie…

TLD Insights in Cloudflare Radar

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,…

Expanded CT log activity insights on Cloudflare Radar

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 certif…

Browser Support Detection for PQ Encryption on Cloudflare Radar

Radar now includes browser detection for Post-quantum (PQ) encryption. The Post-quantum encryption card ↗︎ now checks whether a user’s browser supports post-quantum encryption. If support is detected, information about the key agreement in use is displayed.

Regional Data in Cloudflare Radar

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: Get Geolocation - Retrieves geolocation by geoId. List Geolocations - Lists geolocations. NetFlows Summary By Dimension - Retrieves NetFlows summary by dimension. All summary and timeseries_groups endpoints in H…

Certificate Transparency Insights in Cloudflare Radar

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: /ct/timeseries: Retrieves certificate issuance time series. /ct/summary/{dimension}: Retrieves certificate distribution by dimension. /ct/timeseries_groups/{dimens…

Bot & Crawler Insights in Cloudflare Radar

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: /bots/crawlers/summary/{dimension}: Returns an overview of crawler HTTP request distributions across key dimensions. /bots/crawlers/timeseries_groups/{dimension}: Provides time-series data on crawl…

Leaked Credentials Insights in Cloudflare Radar

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: /leaked_credential_checks/summary/{dimension}: Retrieves summaries of HTTP authentication requests distribution across two different dimensions. /le…

DNS Insights in Cloudflare Radar

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 endp…

Expanded AI insights in Cloudflare Radar

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 t…