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Tailscale Premium: DERP relay traffic surge

Description

Identifies when a source node has more than 75 percent of its recent flows falling back to a DERP relay (Tailscale IsRelayed flag, traffic via 127.3.3.40). Operational signal useful for spotting policy drift.
Rule type
Scheduled
Version
1.0.0
Declared status
Available
Query frequency
15m
Query period
15m
Trigger
gt 0

Declared MITRE coverage

Declared sources

Metadata from the source file. No dependencies inferred from KQL.

Connectors

Data types

KQL query

Original query, unchanged.

let minFlows = 20;
let relayedPctThreshold = 75.0;
Tailscale_Network_CL
| where TimeGenerated > ago(15m)
| summarize
    TotalFlows = count(),
    RelayedFlows = countif(IsRelayed)
    by SrcNodeName, SrcUser, SrcOs, SrcTags=tostring(SrcTags)
| where TotalFlows >= minFlows
| extend RelayedPct = round(100.0 * RelayedFlows / TotalFlows, 1)
| where RelayedPct > relayedPctThreshold
| project SrcNodeName, SrcUser, SrcOs, SrcTags, TotalFlows, RelayedFlows, RelayedPct
| order by RelayedPct desc

Declared entities

HostAccount

Related content

Links established from declared identifiers and solution manifests.

Source provenance

GitHub

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Source identifier
0a1c8d12-e7d3-4890-8b89-8d6dbc1be2f0
Additional source files 2Solutions/Tailscale (CCF)/Analytic Rules/TailscalePremiumDerpRelaySurge.yamlsource ↗Solutions/Tailscale (CCF)/Data/Solution_Tailscale.jsonsolution-membership ↗
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Added to catalog : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC
Last change observed : 16 Sept 2026 · 05:49 UTC

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