# Cloudflare is blocking Datadog's synthetic testing bots

**URL:** <https://community.hubspot.com/t/cloudflare-is-blocking-datadogs-synthetic-testing-bots/148725>\
**Category:** CMS Development\
**Tags:** enterprise\
**Created:** [April 27, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cloudflare-is-blocking-datadogs-synthetic-testing-bots/148725 "2026-04-27T09:16:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![LMuniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@LMuniz](https://community.hubspot.com/u/LMuniz)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 9:16am UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cloudflare-is-blocking-datadogs-synthetic-testing-bots/148725/1 "2026-04-27T09:16:54Z")

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Over the past weekend, Datadog’s synthetic testing bots started getting blocked by Cloudflare (which hadn’t happened before), and several users are also being blocked.

Has any configuration changed on the Cloudflare side?

Is it possible to add our testing bots to a allowlist?

thanks

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**Author:** ![chighsmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/77aa72/32.png) [@chighsmith](https://community.hubspot.com/u/chighsmith)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2026, 9:09pm UTC](https://community.hubspot.com/t/cloudflare-is-blocking-datadogs-synthetic-testing-bots/148725/2 "2026-04-27T21:09:45Z")

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Hi @LMuniz,  
Thank you for posting to the Community!  
I’d like to tag in some of our Top Contributors to see if they are also experiencing this behavior -- Hi @deepikaverma @WesQ @louischausse Can you confirm if you are seeing the same behavior that @LMuniz mentioned? Do you have any tips on how to move forward for @LMuniz?  
Thank you in advance!  
Cassie, Community Manager