Documentation Updates for the Period Ending March 31, 2017

New Service Guide Category: Products and services

We've added a new Products and services category to our documentation that describes Fastly's offerings in plain English in a single location. The category contains the following new sections:

  • Detailed product descriptions
  • Fastly product lifecycle

For ease of discovery, we've moved some of our existing guides into these new locations and rearranged other information accordingly.

New docs

The following documents are new to the help desk support series as part of our regular documentation update efforts:

  • Caching configuration best practices

New Japanese translations added

We recently added Japanese (日本語) translations for the following service guides:

  • Fastly を使い始める
  • Fastly のネットワーク状況
  • シングルパージ
  • Fastly の IP アドレス範囲へのアクセス
  • 有料 TLS オプションの注文
  • 無料 TLS の設定

Recently edited and reviewed docs

The following documents were edited by request, as part of the normal doc review cycle, or as a result of updates to how the Fastly web interface and API operate:

  • Adding CNAME records
  • API Authentication
  • Changing log line formats
  • Changing origins based on user location
  • Common 503 errors
  • Connecting to origins over TLS
  • Creating and using Edge Dictionaries
  • Glossary of terms
  • How we calculate your bill
  • Log streaming: Amazon S3
  • Log streaming: Logentries
  • Miscellaneous VCL features
  • Ordering a paid TLS option
  • Setting up free TLS
  • Troubleshooting conditions
  • User roles and how to change them
  • Using API tokens
  • Working with services

Updated API examples

On May 15th, 2017, account-level API keys will be retired in favor of personal API tokens. We've updated the authenticated curl commands in all guides and API documentation to use API tokens instead of API keys.


Our documentation archive contains PDF snapshots of docs.fastly.com site content as of the above date. Previous updates can be found in the archive as well.