Cloudflare can now send DDoS alerts for sites under attack
Cloudflare has announced a new alert system to inform customers when they are experiencing a DDoS attack. Paid users can now create notifications that inform them when they being targeted.
DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service, attacks disrupt the normal traffic of a website or online service by flooding it with an overwhelming amount of messages, connection requests or packets of information. When successful, they can cause prolonged outages, particularly when DDoS mitigation services are not in place.
Cloudflare has long been regarded as the leading provider of DDoS protection, blocking an average of 72 billion threats per day. The addition of DDoS notifications will give customers better visibility into when they are under attack. Prior to the introduction of the new alert system, a Cloudflare customer would have to be actively using the service’s monitoring tools to be aware that a DDoS attack was in progress. Now, they can configure their own alert system, receiving notifications either via email or PagerDuty, depending on which Cloudflare services they are subscribed to.
