CDN & Bot protection

by Benjamin Fabre

DataDome can be used with any major CDN. The module is able to identify the real client IP that actually requests the page, and considers all IP ranges used by CDN service providers as Trusted Proxy.

Depending on your CDN, some configuration may be required.

The default Akamai configuration works seamlessly with the DataDome module, as it forwards all required information to the Origin.

If you are using Amazon CloudFront, on the other hand, you need to configure it to forward required information to the Origin.

Integrate your CDN with DataDome
In terms of cache management, DataDome will protect all hits that reach the Origin. If you need to protect all your content, we recommend the usage of a specific header to force the CDN to reach the Origin for each hit. This will not disable the cache, but forces the CDN to check cache validity for each hit. The packet is very light (no content), and resulting overhead will be very limited.

If you are using a single or a multi-CDN architecture, please check our new documentation Integrate your CDN with DataDome

Server status page

by Benjamin Fabre

The DataDome technology is deployed in multiple regions, in order to optimize latency between your servers and our API Servers. We are currently using four data centers, in Ireland, Germany, France and the USA (Virginia), respectively.

You can now check the status of the DataDome API servers in real time!

We have set up a web page showing the status of all our servers in real time. From the main page, you can click through to each individual data center for additional details.

You can find the status page here: http://status.datadome.co.

If you notice any anomalies in how the DataDome module is behaving, consider checking this page to determine if we are having server issues (in which case we will already be working on them).

Apache Module V2.26

by Benjamin Fabre

We are proud to release the new Apache version which contains a few improvements and a new log feature.

Get more information in the Changelog Apache

v2.26 (2016-11-10)

  • Improved compatibility with HAProxy
  • Added DATA_DOME_STATUS and DATA_DOME_SPENT_TIME envirnoment variable
  • Added 7xx status code to provide internal module status
  • Removed compilation warning
  • Improved timeout
  • Picked up random resolved address

New french region

by Benjamin Fabre

DataDome technology is deployed in several regions to provide the best latency between your servers and our API Servers.

After the deployment in three AWS DataCenters (Irland, Germany and Virginia, USA), we are proud to announce that a fourth region has been added in France (Paris), at Online.

You can use our latency script to check performance between your servers and this new region. All endpoints are available in the API Server documentation .

We are happy to see some users' latency going from 20ms to 7ms.