Web throughput peak

Created to monitor DDoS attacks and other dangerous bots/hackers activity.

Plan

Find the source of the issue and fix it:

What you can find in logs:

404 requests created from a single IP address created by a crawler (please check User-Agent)

Check site, Transactions, choose "Web", choose Sort By "Throughput (calls per minute)" web-throughput on NewRelic

This view may help you understand the target of requests (if there is a specific target). If it's a bot, it's often literature.authors.show route.

It's also possible a Google Calendar Importer or other calendar clients are fetching course calendars for our Members. UA examples:

Unknown UAs: