Inspect visitor signals in the browser
A new browser-based tool helps teams inspect the location, network, device, and request signals available for a visitor.
From the changelog: Know Your Visitor beta
Authdog Team
When you reason about bot detection, geo routing, or device risk, it helps to see the same class of signals a visitor presents before you write policy. Know Your Visitor is a public beta that shows those signals in the browser, without an Authdog environment or console login.
This is the longer note behind the July 12 changelog entry.
How it works
The tool opens one interactive view of:
- Location — where the request appears to originate
- Network — connection and ISP-style attributes
- Device — browser and hardware facts the page can read
- Request — the remaining visitor signals the page explains inline
Each value has a focused explanation so the view is not a raw dump. The explanations describe what the visitor API returned for that field, not a recommendation to treat the field as proof of identity.
The page is a public beta. It does not require a project, environment, or console setup.
Set it up
No configuration. Open Know Your Visitor and inspect the live view for your current browser.
Use it to see which signals are present before you design a Lidar rule or a hosted-flow risk check. It is not a substitute for those products.
Trust boundaries
Signals on this page are what the browser and the visitor API expose for that request. They are not a login, not a session, and not an Authdog user record. Do not treat a location, VPN heuristic, or device string as authentication.
Public beta means the layout and field set can change. Nothing you see here is written into an environment audit log.
Try it
Open Know Your Visitor. The original release note is in the changelog.