I built an AI assistant for our docs at Handsontable, and then Grok found it. 4.5 million edge requests and 87,000 page renders in only 4 hours, all from xAI's Colossus data center in Memphis. I caught it during the scan and pushed a fix to redirect traffic to our MCP, then spent a week analyzing the logs and learning how crawlers work, what they look for, and what they ignore.
Here's the full story, including the detection, response, and what it cost us.
Grok is obsessed with our docs. Just not the parts we built for it.
It started with Slack notifications. Our docs assistant, the AI chat on the Handsontable data grid documentation, mirrors every conversation into a monitoring channel so we can monitor what topics are discussed, and a little after midnight UTC the channel started filling up. Not replies. New threads, one after another. It seemed off, so I […]
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Great! how do you think about collaboration?