diff --git a/roles/nginxplus/files/fail2ban/nginx-badbots-filter.conf b/roles/nginxplus/files/fail2ban/nginx-badbots-filter.conf
index 3cbf71a00..71202e441 100644
--- a/roles/nginxplus/files/fail2ban/nginx-badbots-filter.conf
+++ b/roles/nginxplus/files/fail2ban/nginx-badbots-filter.conf
@@ -2,6 +2,6 @@
 
 badbots = 360Spider|claudebot|OAI-SearchBot|GPTBot
 
-failregex = (?i)<HOST> -.*"(GET|POST|HEAD).*HTTP.*(?:%(badbots)s).*"$
+failregex = (?i)\{\"remote_ip\"\: \"<HOST>\".*?\"user_agent\"\:.*?(?:%(badbots)s).*$
 
 ignoreregex =