Bot Detection and Filtering on Mutiny

Overview

Mutiny uses advanced methods to detect and filter bot traffic from your asset analytics data, ensuring you receive accurate insights about real user behavior.

How Mutiny Filters Bots

Crawler Detection

Mutiny leverages a comprehensive crawler detection system that automatically identifies and filters out over 1,000 known bots and web crawlers.

User Agent Filtering

Our system automatically filters traffic from common bot user agents (What is a user agent?), including:

• Search engine crawlers (Googlebot, Baiduspider, YandexBot)

• SEO tools (AhrefsBot, PetalBot)

• Social media crawlers (facebookexternalhit)

• Marketing tools (HubSpot Crawler)

• Monitoring services (Datadog/Synthetics, Pingdom, Catchpoint)

• Headless browsers (HeadlessChrome)

• Various other known bots (SiteAuditBot, BrightEdge, etc.)

IP-Based Filtering

On top of filtering out user agents, we automatically filter traffic from the following cloud provider IP ranges:

• Amazon Web Services (AWS)

• Microsoft Azure

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Limitations & Future Improvements

Bot filtering can be an ever-evolving game of cat and mouse, as increasingly sophisticated bots implement new ways to mask their identity. Mutiny is constantly developing enhanced detection capabilities to identify and filter these harder-to-detect bots. 

Need Help?

If you have questions or need help, the Mutiny Support team is here for you! You can submit a support ticket using the Submit a ticket button at the top of this page, or reach us at support@mutinyhq.com.