# Bot Management: General Availability

<p><a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/data-governance/bot-management/" >Bot Management</a> is now generally available. You can detect bot traffic on web sources before it enters your data pipelines, so downstream tools work from cleaner event data.</p>

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    <div class="tip-text">Bot detection is available in the <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/pricing/" >Free</a>, <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/pricing/" >Growth</a>, and <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/enterprise-quote/" >Enterprise</a> plans. You can flag and drop bot events in the Growth and Enterprise plans only.</div>
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<h2 id="key-features">Key features</h2><ul>
<li><strong>Detect bot traffic on every plan</strong>: Identify bot events on web sources from user agent patterns.</li>
<li><strong>Flag or drop bot events</strong>: On the Growth and Enterprise plans, forward bot events with a flag for downstream analysis, or drop them before they enter your pipelines.</li>
<li><strong>Workspace and source settings</strong>: Apply one bot management configuration across all web sources, or override it for a specific source.</li>
<li><strong>Bot event metrics</strong>: Review bot event volume from the <strong>Events</strong> tab of a source.</li>
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<h2 id="get-started">Get started</h2><ol>
<li>In the RudderStack dashboard, go to <strong>Govern</strong> &gt; <strong>Bot Management</strong>.</li>
<li>Turn on <strong>Bot Detection</strong> for your workspace.</li>
<li>On a Growth or Enterprise plan, choose whether to flag or drop the detected bot events.</li>
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<p>See the <a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/data-governance/bot-management/" >Bot Management documentation</a> for configuration steps, supported web sources, and how detection works.</p>
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<h2 id="resources">Resources</h2><ul>
<li><a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/data-governance/bot-management/#how-bot-management-works" >How Bot Management works</a>: Learn how detection, flagging, and dropping handle bot events.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/data-governance/bot-management/#configure-bot-management-settings" >Configure Bot Management</a>: Set workspace and source-level bot management.</li>
<li><a href="https://www.rudderstack.com/docs/data-governance/bot-management/#view-bot-event-metrics" >View bot event metrics</a>: Monitor bot event volume for a source.</li>
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