Case Study: AllTrails achieves uniform bot protection and reduced infrastructure costs with DataDome

AllTrails Secures its Mobile Apps, Website, and API From Bad Bots With DataDome

AllTrails, a popular hiking app offering crowdsourced trail maps, photos, and reviews, faced repeated scraping and credential-stuffing attacks that drove huge traffic spikes, inflated infrastructure costs, and consumed developer time. To stop bot-driven fraud across its mobile-first user base, AllTrails turned to DataDome’s bot protection, including native iOS and Android SDKs and API/website defenses.

DataDome was rolled out in phases—starting with the API and expanding to AllTrails’ mobile apps and website—blocking malicious requests before they hit load balancers and eliminating the need for manual WAF interventions. The result: significantly reduced infrastructure costs, fewer hours spent mitigating attacks, a smoother user experience, and industry-leading accuracy (false positive rate about half the industry standard, a small fraction of a percent), with DataDome providing ongoing analytics and observability.

AllTrails

Kat Leipper

Senior Software Engineer