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title: Bot Fight Mode · Cloudflare Learning Paths
description: Bot Fight Mode is a simple, free product that helps detect and mitigate bot traffic on your domain. When enabled, the product:
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Bot Fight Mode is a simple, free product that helps detect and mitigate bot traffic on your domain. When enabled, the product:

* Identifies traffic matching patterns of known bots
* Issues computationally expensive challenges in response to these bots
* Notifies [Bandwidth Alliance](https://cloudflare.com/bandwidth-alliance/) partners (if applicable) to disable bots

## Considerations

Bot Fight Mode has a few limitations, including that it:

* Protects entire domains without endpoint restrictions.
* Cannot be customized, adjusted, or reconfigured via [WAF custom rules](https://developers.cloudflare.com/learning-paths/get-started-free/security/security-settings/).

If these limitations could cause issues with your application, do not enable this feature.

For more granular control - including the ability to use the `Skip` action for bot mitigation - consider using [Super Bot Fight Mode](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/super-bot-fight-mode/).

## Setup

To start using Bot Fight Mode:

1. Log in to the [Cloudflare dashboard](https://dash.cloudflare.com/login) and select your account and domain.
2. Go to **Security** > **Bots**.
3. For **Bot Fight Mode**, select **On**.

Warning

If these limitations cause issues with your application, [disable](https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/get-started/bot-fight-mode/#disable-bot-fight-mode) Bot Fight Mode.
