Getting started
These articles provide basic instructions for getting started with Fastly services.
Basics
These articles provide basic information and instructions for configuring Fastly services after getting started.
- About the web interface controls
- Always-on DDoS mitigation
- Browser recommendations when using the Fastly web interface
- Content and its delivery
- Fastly POP locations
- Getting started with Fastly
- How caching and CDNs work
- How Fastly's CDN Service works
- HTTP status codes cached by default
- Self-provisioned Fastly services
- Shielding
- Sign up and create your first service
- Working with services
Configuration
These articles provide basic instructions for configuring Fastly services after getting started.
Custom VCL
These articles describe how to create your own VCL files with specialized configurations.
- About VCL Snippets
- Accept-Language header VCL features
- Authenticating before returning a request
- Basic authentication
- Custom responses that don't hit origin servers
- Enabling URL token validation
- Guide to VCL
- IP geolocation variables: Migrating to the new dataset
- Isolating header values without regular expressions
- Manipulating the cache key
- Response Cookie handling
- Support for the Edge-Control header
- Understanding the different PASS action behaviors
- Uploading custom VCL
- Using dynamic VCL Snippets
- Using edge side includes (ESI)
- Using regular VCL Snippets
- VCL regular expression cheat sheet
Domains & Origins
These articles describe configuration settings and changes you can make to your domains and origins when setting up Fastly services.
- Changing origins based on user location
- Connecting to origins
- Failover configuration
- IPv6 support
- Maintaining separate HTTP and HTTPS requests to origin servers
- Routing assets to different origins
- Setting up redundant origin servers
- Specifying an override host
- Using Fastly with apex domains
- Using Fastly's global POP network
Security
These articles provide information about the administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that protect the Fastly CDN service, as well as describe how to secure communications between Fastly and your origin servers and customers.
TLS
These articles describe how to set up TLS certificates with Fastly services.
- Domain validation for TLS certificates
- Enabling HSTS through Fastly
- Enabling TLS 1.3 through Fastly
- Forcing a TLS redirect
- Managing domains on TLS certificates
- Serving HTTPS traffic using certificates you manage
- Serving HTTPS traffic using Fastly-managed certificates
- Setting up free TLS
- TLS termination
Integrations
These articles describe how non-Fastly services interoperate with Fastly.
Logging endpoints
These articles describe Fastly's support for protocols that allow you to stream logs to a variety of locations, including third-party services, for storage and analysis.
- Log streaming: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams
- Log streaming: Amazon S3
- Log streaming: Cloud Files
- Log streaming: Coralogix
- Log streaming: Datadog
- Log streaming: Datadog via syslog
- Log streaming: DigitalOcean Spaces
- Log streaming: Elasticsearch
- Log streaming: FTP
- Log streaming: Google BigQuery
- Log streaming: Google Cloud Pub/Sub
- Log streaming: Google Cloud Storage
- Log streaming: Heroku's Logplex
- Log streaming: Honeycomb
- Log streaming: HTTPS
- Log streaming: Hydrolix
- Log streaming: Kafka
- Log streaming: Log Shuttle
- Log streaming: LogDNA
- Log streaming: Logentries
- Log streaming: Loggly
- Log streaming: Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Log streaming: New Relic Logs
- Log streaming: OpenStack
- Log streaming: Oracle Cloud Storage
- Log streaming: Papertrail
- Log streaming: Scalyr
- Log streaming: SFTP
- Log streaming: Shape Log Analysis
- Log streaming: Splunk
- Log streaming: Storj DCS
- Log streaming: Sumo Logic
- Log streaming: Syslog
- Log streaming: Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
Non-Fastly services
These articles describe how non-Fastly services interoperate with Fastly.
- Alibaba Object Storage Service
- Amazon S3
- Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage
- Data transfer with Backblaze B2
- DigitalOcean Spaces
- Discounted egress from Google
- Google Cloud Storage
- Google Compute Engine
- Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
- Oracle Cloud Storage
- Outbound data transfer from Azure
- PerimeterX Bot Defender
- Storj DCS Object Storage
- Wasabi Hot Cloud Storage
Diagnostics
These articles describe how to log data, troubleshoot problems, and tune performance.
Streaming logs
These articles describe how we support real-time log streaming of data that passes through Fastly.
- About Fastly's real-time log streaming features
- Changing log compression formats
- Changing log line formats
- Changing where log files are written
- Creating an AWS IAM role for Fastly logging
- Custom log formats
- Encrypting logs
- Setting up remote log streaming
- Useful conditions for logging
- Useful log formats
- Useful variables to log
Account info
These articles describe how to manage account access, billing, and security.
Account management
These articles describe how to manage account access.
- Account lockouts
- Changing an account's company name
- Enabling an IP allowlist for account logins through the web interface
- Enabling and disabling two-factor authentication
- Finding and managing your account info
- Monitoring account activity with the audit log
- Reviewing service activity with the event log
- Using API tokens
Reference
These articles provide reference information about common Fastly terms and configuration settings.
Resource limits
This guide details Fastly resource limits and summarizes the implications of exceeding those limits.
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