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title: Data collection · Cloudflare Analytics docs
description: For the purposes of mitigating DDoS attacks and providing traffic
  visibility through the Network Analytics dashboard, Cloudflare collects data
  from different protocols such as IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ICMP, GRE, and DNS.
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For the purposes of mitigating DDoS attacks and providing traffic visibility through the Network Analytics dashboard, Cloudflare collects data from different protocols such as IP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, ICMP, GRE, and DNS.
