CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline — What It Is and How to Handle It

CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline is Cloudflare's caching crawler that stores static versions of websites to serve when origin servers are unavailable, integrating with Internet Archive.

Operator: Cloudflare | Type: Archiver | Category: Archiver

CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline is classified as archiver. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects CloudFlare-AlwaysOnline using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.