Consumer Services Updates & Release Notes

Radar

Cloudflare Radar search now includes Internet events and outages alongside existing results. Search event descriptions or related entities, such as locations, ASes, bots, and top-level domains, to find relevant events and open the most relevant Radar view.

Radar search results showing Internet outage events associated with locations and autonomous systems

Event links preserve the event date range, making it easier to investigate what changed before, during, and after an event. These results are also available to browser-based AI agents through WebMCP.

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Cloudflare Radar expands the Radar Researcher ↗︎ beta with richer sources and new ways to investigate Internet data.

Connected insights

Radar Researcher responses can now link to relevant Radar pages, reports, and Cloudflare Blog posts.

Radar Researcher response linking to the IP Address Information and Network Quality Test pages

URL Scanner report explanations

Select Explain with AI on a URL Scanner report ↗︎ to have Radar Researcher explain its findings and answer follow-up questions about the scanned site.

Radar Researcher explaining findings from an example.com URL Scanner report

Improved shared sessions

Shared conversations now open in fullscreen, while the share URL remains available until you close the panel or start a new conversation.

Open Radar Researcher ↗︎ to explore these improvements.

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Radar adds an ASPA validation tool ↗︎ to its Routing section ↗︎. Enter a BGP AS_PATH and the tool checks it against the Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) ↗︎ records currently published in the RPKI, returning a verdict of Valid, Invalid, or Unknown. An Invalid verdict means no chain of provider authorizations covers the whole path, which is the signature of a route leak.

Validation follows draft-ietf-sidrops-aspa-verification ↗︎, so verdicts match those produced by validators implementing the same draft. The draft is still a work in progress and not yet an RFC.

Enter a path

Paths are read in BGP wire order: the rightmost AS is the origin, and the leftmost AS is the one closest to the collector or router that observed the route. AS numbers can be separated by spaces, commas, or hyphens, with or without an AS prefix. The full ASPA snapshot is loaded into the browser once, so the verdict, graph, and trace update as the path is edited, with no further requests. A set of example paths covers the interesting cases, including a route leak with an AS0 ASPA, where an AS declares that it has no providers at all. …

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Radar expands its Routing section ↗︎ with two widgets on AS pages, such as AS13335 ↗︎, that describe how a network reaches the rest of the Internet: the paths it takes toward the Tier-1 ↗︎ networks, and the mix of direct upstreams carrying its routes. Both are derived from RouteViews ↗︎ RIB snapshots, unioned across selected collectors.

AS-level connectivity

The AS-level connectivity graph aggregates the BGP paths an AS uses to reach the Tier-1 networks, unioned across all the prefixes it announces, as observed by selected RouteViews collectors. It reads from left to right, starting at the queried AS and ending at the Tier-1 networks, and each node is labeled with its AS number, country, and organization name. Tier-1 nodes are marked so they stand apart from the intermediate networks that lead to them. …

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Cloudflare Radar now includes Radar Researcher ↗︎, a beta AI-powered assistant for exploring Internet trends and traffic data in plain language. Open Researcher from the header on any Radar page to ask questions by voice or text, receive explanations, and view interactive charts based on Radar API data.

Screenshot of the Radar Researcher panel alongside the Radar overview page

To ask about a specific chart, select Explain with AI to start a conversation with its underlying data and context.

Screenshot of the Explain with AI option in a Radar chart menu

You can explore further with suggested follow-up questions, find earlier conversations through searchable history, and share conversations through shareable links.

Alongside the user-facing Researcher experience, Radar now supports WebMCP, allowing browser-based AI agents to navigate Radar, search data, and use tools such as URL scanning and domain lookup. …