Microsoft (Azure)

Setting up Logging with Azure Front Door

To set up logging for your Azure front door, first navigate to your specific Front Door instance. On the left sidebar, open the dropdown for "Monitoring" and select the "Diagnostics settings" tab.

This will take you to a screen where you can create a new Diagnostics Setting.

Go ahead and create a new setting. Within, the settings page, selectthe options that will send all access logs to a Storage account. If you don't already have a storage bucket in place for these logs, please create one.

Once you've confirmed that logs are setting stored in your chosen bucket, please reach out to [email protected] to coordinate with our engineering team on the rest of the TollBit Analytics setup. To finalize your setup, we will need access to the directory in your Storage bucket where your logs are stored, along with the pattern for how the logs are stored for instance /service/logs/2024/12/04/log-file.

Azure Front Door Bot Paywall

Azure's CDN lets you easily set up redirection rules for different bots. We'll explore how to do this in the standard tier Front Door as well as the premium tier.

Standard

Navigate to your Front Door instance and click the dropdown for "Settings" on the left navbar.

You can create a new rule set using the button at the top.

Then you can add rules for the bots you want to forward off to the TollBit Bot Paywall. We recommend the following list:

chatgpt-user, perplexitybot, gptbot, anthropic-ai, ccbot, claude-web, claudebot, cohere-ai, youbot, diffbot, oai-searchbot, meta-externalagent, timpibot, amazonbot, bytespider, perplexity-user

You can add or remove from this as befits your bot strategy. We can also keep these lowercased, since in the rules we are comparing the lowercased values. Click save to save these changes.

Once you've created this ruleset, you need to associate your Front Door route to it. Click the 3 horizontal dots to the right of the rule set, and click "Associate a route".

Choose the route to the relevant Front Door instance and go through the flow of associating this route.

Premium

If you have a Premium tier Front Door instance, contact our team at [email protected] and we can connect with you and evalulate the best path forward.