Segment MTU count affected due to bot traffic

[AmirthaShankari]

Hi Team,

We are experiencing a lot of “smart” bot (disguised as normal UserAgents) traffic which is affecting our MTU usage. We have implemented bot filtering using regEx. We are also trying to find a way to avoid sending events to Segment if it’s not coming from real user. Our plan is to implement Segment middleware that uses a gate either cache events or if open send out the events as normal. Once gate is opened, based on preset conditions (eg mouse move, specific timeout, etc ) (which we hope identify a real user), the cached events would also be sent. We would like to know if anyone has encountered this scenario any advice would be welcome.

Thanks!