A misconfiguration that might have cost us $7,000Ilya BezdelevPublished on February 10, 2025Table of ContentsTL;DRContextHow we discovered the problemStep 1: A cost spikeStep 2: Image Optimization API usage spikeStep 3: Tens of thousands of requests from LLM botsMitigationStep 1: Stop the bleedingStep 2: Disable Image OptimizationStep 3: robots.txtUser agents of LLM botsUser agents of search engine crawlersUser agents of SEO botsHow do we prevent this in the future?Continue with a sensitive spen...