Bot activity and crawler insights now in Observability
Vercel now lets you see exactly which AI crawlers are hitting your infrastructure—and how much traffic they're actually consuming.
Why it matters
As AI training data scraping becomes a major operational concern, Vercel is giving developers visibility into bot and crawler activity, including AI crawlers. This is a product feature that addresses a real pain point for founders managing infrastructure costs and data usage.
The key facts
10 to knowVercel Observability now provides detailed breakdowns for individual bots and bot categories
AI crawlers and search engines included in reporting
Available to all users in Edge Requests dashboard
Observability Plus users can filter traffic by bot category, inspect individual bot activity, and break down traffic in query builder
Feature addresses growing concern over AI crawler resource consumption and data scraping
Vercel Observability now tracks individual bots and bot categories
All plan tiers can view bot/crawler breakdown in Edge Requests dashboard
Observability Plus users can filter traffic by bot category (including AI crawlers)
Feature includes per-bot metrics and query builder filtering
Launched May 7, 2025
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Publisher excerpt: Vercel Observability now provides detailed breakdowns for and , including AI crawlers and search engines. Users across all plans can view this data in the dashboard.individual botsbot categoriesObservability > Edge Requests Additionally, Observability Plus users can: Inspect bot and crawler…