Bot (T/F) system session attribute

Tealeaf provides a session attribute (Bot T/F), which is set to true if the session applies to a self-reporting bot.

This session attribute is used for the following purposes:

• In the session, this item is written into the [canisterSummary] section, which can be viewed through RTV.
• For reporting purposes, you can use the Traffic Type dimension, one of the values of which is BOT.

bot detection in RTV

The Tealeaf provided session attributes are written to the STS file associated with each session. Among the session attributes reported in the [canisterSummary] section, the following session attribute indicates that the user agent is a self-reporting bot.

TltStsIsBot=1

• These session attributes are available for review through RTV.
• Some of these fields are automatically indexed for search.

Traffic type dimension

Tealeaf provides a dimension to identify the type of user agent. For user agents that have been identified as a bot, the dimension Traffic Type is recorded with a value of BOT. In the Report Builder, this dimension can be added to your reports to filter event and ratio metrics to display only bot-based values.