Bot Management Beta

Detect, flag, and drop bot traffic at the source to improve data quality and reduce costs in your RudderStack pipeline.

Available Plans

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enterprise

2 minute read
Date: Feb 23, 2026

We are excited to announce Bot Management, a data governance feature that detects, flags, and drops bot traffic on web sources before it enters your data pipelines. By identifying and managing bot events early in your data flow, you can significantly improve data quality and reduce unnecessary costs.

Why Bot Management?

Managing bot traffic has traditionally required implementing custom detection logic in downstream systems, leading to inconsistent bot detection across your analytics stack and inflated costs from processing non-human events. Bot Management eliminates these challenges by providing a centralized, reliable filtering layer that standardizes bot detection across your web sources.

Key features

User agent-based detection: Automatically identifies bot events using predefined bot patterns to detect common bots, crawlers, and automated traffic.
Flexible event management: Choose to flag bot events for downstream analysis or drop them entirely at the gateway to prevent unnecessary processing costs.
Workspace and source-level configuration: Set global bot management settings for all web sources or apply custom configurations for individual sources based on your specific requirements.
Real-time bot metrics: Monitor bot event volume patterns at the source level through the source Events view. For more details, see View Bot Event Metrics.
Cost optimization: Drop bot events at the gateway to reduce billable event volume and prevent unnecessary costs across pipelines, data stores, and analytics tools.

Get started

Bot Management is available in all RudderStack paid plans. You can get started with just a couple of clicks — navigate to Govern > Bot Management in your RudderStack dashboard and enable bot detection for your workspace.

See the Bot Management documentation for detailed instructions.