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# Launchpad Firewall: IP & Path Rules

Block IPs and CIDR ranges, create path rules, verify Googlebot traffic, and password-protect preview URLs to secure your Launchpad project.

Each project has a Firewall tab covering the traffic-protection features Launchpad supports today.

## Traffic dashboard

See a real-time summary of the last 24 hours of traffic to your project: allowed, denied, and logged request counts, plus a bot-traffic breakdown -- known-good crawlers (Googlebot, Bingbot, GPTBot, and other recognized crawlers), verified Googlebot (confirmed via real reverse-DNS lookup against Google's own published verification method, not just a spoofable user-agent string), and other bot-like traffic. You can also see your top IPs, top user agents, and top request paths.

## IP blocking

Block specific IP addresses or CIDR ranges from reaching your project entirely.

## Path rules

Create rules to either log or deny requests matching a specific path pattern -- useful for blocking known attack paths (e.g. /wp-admin) or quietly monitoring suspicious activity without blocking it outright.

## Deployment protection

Password-protect your preview and branch-deploy URLs so only people with the password can view them (see Environments & Branch Deploys). Production is never affected.

## Plan limits

Firewall rule counts scale with your plan: Personal (3 IP / 3 path rules per project), Pro (20/20), Team/Agency (40/40).