Security News > 2020 > October > Cloudflare can now send DDoS alerts for sites are under attack
Cloudflare now allows paid customers to create notifications that warn them when their sites are under a DDoS attack.
Cloudflare has always offered DDoS protection as one of its core offerings, but unless a site owner or administrator were actively using their site or using monitoring tools, they would not know that their service was under attack until it was too late.
Yesterday, Cloudflare announced that all paid customers can now configure alerts that notify them when a site they manage is under a DDoS attack.
When a DDoS attack occurs, Cloudflare will notify you when the attack was detected, the DDoS attack type, how large of an attack it is, and what the target is, as shown below.
Once an alert has been created, when Cloudflare detects that your site or service is under DDoS attack, it will send out the notification.