traffic-analysis-specialist

What problem does it solve?

This Skill helps operations and analytics teams rapidly diagnose unexpected web traffic patterns, determine whether spikes are legitimate or malicious, and restore reliable user analytics tracking so teams can prioritize incidents and reduce false alerts.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Real-time and historical review: Guides inspecting dashboards (GA4, Cloudflare) and comparing current activity to baselines to identify anomalies.
• Access log forensics: Provides parsers and commands to extract top IPs, requested pages, status distributions, user agents, and hourly volume from Nginx or Cloud Run logs.
• Bot detection and mitigation: Recommends heuristics for suspicious UAs and high-rate IPs, nginx blocking patterns, and Cloudflare firewall settings.
• Monitoring & alerting: Shows how to implement simple spike detection, alert thresholds, and lightweight real-time dashboards for launch-day monitoring.
• Analytics setup and validation: Covers GA4 installation checks, event tracking examples, and SQL queries for funnel and DAU analysis.

Quick Start

Analyze the recent traffic spike for the specified site by checking GA4 realtime, exporting and parsing access logs for top IPs and user agents, and flagging likely bot activity.