Chapter 3

Your First Batch

What happens when the first data arrives.

1 min readLast updated 12 August 2026
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The ingest pipeline

When a Logpush batch hits your Edge ingest URL:

  1. Authentication — Edge verifies the batch against your source's secret
  2. Parsing — each record is validated; malformed lines are dropped and counted
  3. Aggregation — the batch is collapsed into time-series metrics across every dimension that matters (network, country, status, cache outcome, browser, path, data centre)
  4. Archiving — the original compressed batch is retained for 30 days as forensic evidence
  5. Response — Logpush gets back accepted count, rejected count, and the compression ratio

What you'll see

After the first batch:

  • Overview populates with real numbers
  • Offenders shows the networks in your traffic
  • Alerts stays empty (a single batch usually doesn't trip any detector — you need sustained traffic)

After a few minutes of continuous Logpush delivery:

  • The Sources list shows a green Live freshness pill
  • The detectors start comparing current windows against baselines
  • If anything anomalous is present, alerts open automatically

Warmup period

New sources have a warmup window during which detectors do not evaluate:

  • Fast detectors (spikes, ratios, abuse signatures): suppressed for 60 minutes
  • Hourly detectors (slow burn, bot analysis, crawling, scanners): suppressed for 6 hours

This warmup prevents the initial Logpush backfill from triggering false-positive alerts. When a Logpush job is first enabled, it sends a burst of historical data that can look like a traffic spike to detectors that have no prior baseline.

After the warmup window passes, baseline auto-calibration runs within about 4 hours. Detectors then compare your traffic against your own site's normal, and their volume floors scale to your site's size.

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