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title: "Shield Examiner"
description: "AI-powered review of your Shield widget's traffic: bot pressure, escalation calibration, abuse signals, and recommended siteverify thresholds — from aggregate data only."
url: https://edge.network/docs/shield/examiner/
---

# Shield Examiner

Shield

# Shield Examiner

An AI review of your widget's traffic that turns 30 days of metrics into a plain-English
assessment — what's healthy, what's under attack, what to tune — with specific fixes.

## Included with every widget

The Examiner is part of Edge Shield's free offering — run reviews as often as you need,
on every widget.

## How to Use

- 1 Open a Shield widget and navigate to the **Examiner** tab
- 2 Click **Run review** — the analysis covers your last 30 days of traffic and takes a few seconds
- 3 Review the health score, findings, and recommendations — apply fixes in the widget's **Settings** tab or in your own siteverify handling

## What It Reviews

### Traffic Health

Challenge volumes, solve rates, and verification patterns — and what they mean for your site rather than raw numbers.

### Bot Pressure

How much automation is hitting the widget, whether it's declared (verified agents) or anonymous, and whether it's trending up.

### Escalation Calibration

Whether the interactive-confirmation rate suggests genuine suspicious traffic or an over-challenged audience (VPNs, privacy browsers), and what to do about it.

### Abuse Signals

Token replays, verification failures, score collapses, and drift-detector anomalies — the traces real attacks leave in aggregates.

### Configuration

Whether your widget mode, verified-agents policy, and hostname allowlist fit the traffic you're actually receiving — plus recommended [siteverify](https://edge.network/docs/shield/siteverify) score thresholds.

## Health Score

Each review produces a health score from 0 to 100 based on the severity and number of findings.

| Score | Rating | Meaning |
| 80–100 | Good health | Traffic looks normal; minor tuning may be suggested. |
| 50–79 | Needs attention | Calibration or bot-pressure warnings worth acting on. |
| 0–49 | Issues found | Active abuse signals or configuration problems affecting protection. |

## What Gets Analysed

The Examiner reviews hourly aggregate counters only — challenge volumes, solve rates,
score averages, and abuse counts — plus your widget's configuration. Shield holds no
per-visitor data, so none can be analysed or shared. That's not a policy; it's the
architecture.

## Saved Results

Reviews are saved automatically. When you return to the Examiner tab, your most recent
result is shown with the date and time it was run. Click **Run again** at any
time for a fresh analysis — Shield keeps your last ten.

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