: New Website, Digital Ocean spam traffic very high on Google Analytics I am hosting my website on a Digital Ocean droplet. It's very new and I'm not expecting any activity yet. However looking

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I am hosting my website on a Digital Ocean droplet. It's very new and I'm not expecting any activity yet. However looking at the Analytics I started to notice a high daily increase from a particular source: digital ocean inc.

And when filtering by "Service Provider" it becomes apparent:

I have attempted to add a filter, however "Service Provider" is not an option to choose. I cannot filter by IP Address, because looking at my Webserver Access Log, it changes. However it always makes these 4 same GET requests:

How do I get around filtering this spam traffic? What does this bot achieve by performing these simple requests?

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@Gonzalez347

@closetnoc was right.

I have contacted Digital Ocean and they responded with:

It looks like these IPs are related to a monitoring service, are you
currently subscribed to one? If not, it's entirely possible the person
who had this IP address before you was the one subscribed, and simply
hasn't updated their information.

If it's not your monitoring, it's nothing to worry about and will
likely stop in the near future. If it is yours, then you know they're
doing their job!

I was wrong with saying "4 same GET requests", as this is obviously just a single request to the landing page and the other resources are loaded in by default.

So for now I will manually block those IP's (7 so far) in Google Analytics.

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