Cloudflare AI crawler monitoring
Turn Cloudflare AI Crawl Control into an AI visibility workflow: see which AI services reach your site, which paths they request, and whether crawler access lines up with Trakkr visibility changes.
Workflow setup
Prerequisites
A site proxied through Cloudflare with access to AI Crawl Control.
A clear list of high-value pages, docs, pricing pages, and policies AI systems should find.
A Trakkr brand with crawler tracking, visibility prompts, or citation monitoring enabled.
Setup steps
- 1
Open AI Crawl Control for the zone
Start with visibility before enforcement. Confirm Cloudflare is seeing AI crawler activity on the domain and note the time window you will compare in Trakkr.
- 2
Review AI traffic analytics
Use the AI traffic views to inspect request paths, user agents, bot groupings, and top referrers. Keep the analysis page-path based, not just bot-name based.
- 3
Export the crawler signal
Export the rows or pull them through the available API when you need to blend crawler data with visibility, citation, or traffic reporting.
- 4
Compare crawler access to visibility outcomes
Map crawler hits to the pages Trakkr sees cited, recommended, or missing in AI answers. Look for important pages that never receive AI crawler requests.
- 5
Create an action loop
Use Trakkr actions and workflows to investigate crawler spikes, blocked paths, missing llms.txt coverage, and pages that get crawled but never cited.
What to measure
How Trakkr fits
Turn the platform signal into action
Trakkr connects Cloudflare crawler signals to prompts, citations, competitors, and actions.
Crawler spikes can become workflows for review, stakeholder updates, or technical fixes.
The free llms.txt generator gives teams a clean file to publish before monitoring crawler response.
Useful Trakkr links
Checks and sources
Common mistakes
Blocking an AI crawler before you understand which pages it is requesting.
Treating every AI user agent as the same kind of traffic.
Looking only at total hits instead of the paths tied to visibility and citations.
Official sources used
FAQ
Next workflows
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Google Search Console AI visibility
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Start with crawler visibility, then decide what to control
Use Cloudflare for the raw request signal and Trakkr for the visibility, citation, and action layer around it.