Can unknown traffic be excluded from the report?

[cdrx]

trafficstars

I'm analysing some web traffic, but trying to limit the report to just traffic that is likely genuine user activity (i.e. not a bot, sensible looking user agent, etc).

Using --ignore-crawlers gets me most of the way there, which is great.

If I run with --unknowns-log, I can see from the file that there is a lot of long tail junk activity I'm not interested in (log4j attacks, curl, weird bots etc).

Is it possible to skip / filter out all "unknown" traffic?

[allinurl]

Thanks for suggesting this. There's no option now to ignore those. Are you looking to ignore them from being counted completely or simply not showing that data?

[cdrx]

I'm not sure I understand the difference between not counting or not showing the data.

For me, ideally, I would want the unknowns to be either not imported at all, or excluded from the "visits" metric, on the "unique visitors per day" panel.

I guess what I'm looking for is "unique likely-human visitors per day" (as best we can tell, from the logs)

[0bi-w6n-K3nobi]

Hum... it is seem so complicated.

In this same way that this request for you may seem "unknown", those may be incorrectly labeled. Yeah... I known... A lot of web traffic is just trash. But I would take care about this.

Some times, I had DDoS attack or a extraordinary bandwidth consumption from this "unknown" sources. I advise you to also be aware of this traffic, so as not to have any unpleasant surprises. Or keep another separate report for that.