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Fastly Compute + xSeek: Detect AI bots before they hit origin

Deploy AI bot tracking at the edge using Fastly Compute. Lightning-fast detection with global distribution for any website.

CDNEdge Compute

Overview

Fastly Compute provides edge computing capabilities that let you detect and track AI bots before they reach your origin server. Using JavaScript/WASM at the edge, you can implement AI bot detection with minimal latency across Fastly's global network. This approach works with any website behind Fastly and provides comprehensive tracking without modifying your origin infrastructure.

×Client-side JS

What you'd miss

Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom — none of them fire for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or Perplexity. Client scripts never run for crawlers that don't execute JS.

xSeek · Edge Compute

What you capture

Every bot hit, server-side, with the exact user-agent, URL, and timestamp — before the page even renders. No sampling, no blind spots.

How it works

3 steps
01

Deploy xSeek detection in Fastly Compute.

02

Route requests through the edge service.

03

Stream AI bot events into xSeek.

Key benefits

Sub-millisecond edge detection

Global coverage with minimal latency

No origin changes required

Next step

Start tracking AI bots in under five minutes.

Pick your stack, follow the guide, watch the data land. No credit card, no call required to start.