Overview
About
Custom Rules
Custom Firewall rules
Create Custom Firewall rules in the dashboard
Create Custom Firewall rules via API
Configure a rule with the Skip action
API examples
Skip options
Rate Limiting rules
Determining the request rate
Create Rate Limiting rules in the dashboard
Create Rate Limiting rules via API
Rate limiting parameters
Common use cases
Manage Custom Rules in the dashboard
Managed Rulesets
Cloudflare Managed Ruleset
Cloudflare OWASP Core Ruleset
Cloudflare Exposed Credentials Check
Deploy Managed Rulesets for a zone
Deploy rulesets via API
Defining WAF exceptions
Define WAF exceptions in the dashboard
Define WAF exceptions via API
Log the payload of matched rules
Configure payload logging in the dashboard
View the payload content in the dashboard
Configure payload logging via API
Command-line operations
Generate a key pair
Decrypt the payload content
Automated exposed credentials check
How exposed credentials checks work
Configure exposed credentials checks via API
Test your exposed credentials checks configuration
Monitor exposed credentials events
Analytics
Free plan
Paid plans
Additional information
Alerts
Change log
Scheduled changes
2022-02-28
2022-02-21
2022-02-14
2022-01-24
2021-12-16 – Emergency
2021-12-14 – Emergency
2021-12-10 – Emergency
2021-11-01
2021-10-25
2021-10-19
2021-10-04
2021-09-06
2021-09-01 – Emergency
2021-08-31
2021-08-23
2021-08-16
2021-07-26
2021-07-19
2021-07-01 – Emergency
2021-06-21
2021-06-14
2021-06-07
2021-06-01
2021-04-21 – Emergency
2021-04-19
2021-03-22
2021-03-08
2021-03-06 – Emergency
2021-03-05 – Emergency
2021-03-01
2020-12-14
2020-12-02
2020-11-16
2020-11-05 – Emergency
2020-11-04 – Emergency
2020-10-19
2020-10-12
2020-10-05
2020-09-28
2020-09-21
2020-09-15
2020-09-07
2020-08-24
2020-09-01
2020-07-27
2020-08-03
2020-07-20
2020-07-07 – Emergency
2020-07-13
2020-06-22
2020-06-15
2020-06-08
2020-05-25
2020-05-11
2020-05-04
2020-04-27
2020-04-20
2020-04-06
2020-03-30
2020-03-23
2020-03-12
2020-03-09
2020-03-02 – Emergency
2020-02-17
2020-02-10
2020-01-27
2020-01-20
2020-01-16 – Emergency
2019-12-16
2019-11-25 – Emergency
2019-11-12
2019-11-07 – Emergency
2019-11-04
2019-10-27 – Emergency
2019-10-23 – Emergency
2019-10-21
2019-10-17 – Emergency
2019-10-14
2019-10-07
2019-09-30
2019-09-26 – Emergency
2019-09-16
Historical

2019-10-17 – Emergency release

Ruleset	Rule	Description	Previous Action	New Action
Cloudflare Specials	100035D	Improve Fake Google Bot detection. Merge 100035D_BETA into 100035D. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Disable	Disable
Cloudflare Specials	100035	Improve Fake Google Bot detection. Merge 100035_BETA into 100035. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Block	Block
Cloudflare Specials	100035C	Improve Fake Google Bot detection. Merge 100035C_BETA into 100035C. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Block	Block
Cloudflare Specials	100035B	Improve Fake Bing Bot detection. Merge 100035B_BETA into 100035B. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Block	Block
Cloudflare Specials	100035Y	Improve Fake Yandex Bot detection. Merge 100035Y_BETA into 100035Y. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Block	Block
Cloudflare Specials	100035U	Improve Fake Baidu Bot detection. Merge 100035U_BETA into 100035U. Change originally scheduled for 2019-10-21	Block	Block