cloudflare-csup

monitoring cloudflare-csup

Cache status updates and performance monitoring

About this crawler

cloudflare-csup is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern cloudflare-csup in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block cloudflare-csup traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

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Technical details

Name
cloudflare-csup
Pattern
cloudflare-csup
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://datadome.co/bots/cloudflare-csup/
Added
2026/04/17
rDNS suffixes
.cloudflare.com
Instances
1 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely cloudflare-csup with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.

Sample User-Agent strings

cloudflare-csup (Cloudflare Radar)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow cloudflare-csup:

User-agent: cloudflare-csup Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} cloudflare-csup [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "cloudflare-csup") { return 403; }
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