Umami: Solving Geolocation (City and Region) with Cloudflare Tunnels

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:00:00 -0700

Umami is one of the best privacy-focused, self-hosted alternatives for web analytics. However, an extremely common issue when deploying it behind Cloudflare Tunnels is that the dashboard identifies the visitor’s country, but the City and Region fields appear empty (—).

In this guide, we will look at how to fix this telemetry “short circuit” by correctly configuring HTTP headers so that Cloudflare provides Umami with all the geographic information it needs.

Cloudflare: Cryptographic Security for Your Domain with DNSSEC

Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:30:00 -0700

The Domain Name System (DNS) is the Internet’s address book, but by original design, it is not secure. When a user types a domain into their browser, the query travels in plain text and blindly trusts the response it receives. This is where DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) comes in.

DNSSEC does not encrypt DNS queries, but rather digitally signs them. It works through a public-key cryptography system that guarantees DNS resolvers (such as those from Google, Cloudflare, or your ISP) that the IP address they are being directed to is legitimate and has not been altered along the way.

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Umami: Solving Geolocation (City and Region) with Cloudflare Tunnels

Cloudflare: Cryptographic Security for Your Domain with DNSSEC