Akamai Bot Manager is a bot-detection product built into Akamai's content delivery network, using a mix of browser fingerprinting, behavioral analysis, and a maintained directory of known bots to classify and control automated traffic at the CDN edge. Because it acts on bot traffic at Akamai's edge servers, only traffic it judges clean is forwarded to the origin server.

Akamai Bot Manager keeps a library of known bots and lets site owners define their own categories, so different kinds of automated traffic can be handled differently rather than with a single allow-or-block decision.

Responses Akamai Bot Manager Can Apply

  • Monitor it
  • Slow it down during periods of high user traffic
  • Serve cached content instead of live content
  • Challenge it
  • Mitigate or block it