how to remove bot traffic from my Mixpanel reports?

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You can’t fully “delete” historical bot data from Mixpanel, but you can both prevent new bot events from being ingested and filter/hide existing bot traffic so it doesn’t affect reports.---

Mixpanel’s JS SDK already filters some major crawlers (Googlebot, Bing, etc.).[Bot traffic] For other bots, you can set the special $ignore super property to stop their events from being ingested: 1. Detect bots via navigator.userAgent. 2. If it matches your bot pattern, register $ignore: true.Example from the docs (blocking user agents containing Mozilla/4.0): js var userAgentBotTest = navigator.userAgent; mixpanel.register({"User Agent": userAgentBotTest}); if (/(Mozilla\/4.0)/i.test(userAgentBotTest)) { mixpanel.register({"$ignore": true}); }LBKSAny events sent while $ignore is true will be dropped and won’t appear in reports.[Bot traffic]You can adapt the regex to your own bot patterns (e.g., specific frameworks, headless browsers, etc.). The docs note that $ignore must be true or a non-empty string to work.[Bot traffic]---

Events already ingested are immutable, but you can exclude them from analysis: - If you can identify bot events by a property (e.g. user agent, device, location), create a Custom Event that includes only non-bot traffic (or explicitly excludes the bot pattern). Then use that custom event in reports instead of the raw event.[Bot traffic] - Optionally hide the original noisy event in Lexicon so it doesn’t clutter dropdowns; hidden events are excluded from “All Events” and most report flows, but still ingested.[Hiding data]If the bot incident is severe and clearly scoped (e.g., a spike over a short time window), you can also consider Data Deletion with filters (event + time range + properties) to permanently remove those events, but this is irreversible and should be used only for well-identified problematic data.[Data clean-up]

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