betterstack
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedAn automated monitoring agent that performs health checks, uptime pings, and metrics scraping to ensure infrastructure reliability. Operated by Better Stack.
What is betterstack?
Better Stack operates this bot as part of their observability platform, which provides uptime monitoring, log management, and incident alerting. The bot periodically visits configured endpoints to verify service availability and ingest performance metrics. It is a critical tool for site reliability engineers who need real-time visibility into the health of their web services and infrastructure.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls specific URLs provided by users to perform 'heartbeat' checks or to scrape Prometheus metrics from exporters. By simulating user requests, it detects downtime or latency issues and triggers alerts via Slack, email, or phone. Site owners can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the official Better Stack documentation, which lists the specific IP ranges used for these monitoring requests.
IP ranges
Requests from betterstack originate from these published ranges. For strict verification, match the source IP against this list in addition to checking the user-agent and reverse-DNS.
Block or allow betterstack
Add a Disallow rule for betterstack in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.
# Block betterstack from crawling your entire site User-agent: betterstack Disallow: / # Allow betterstack full access User-agent: betterstack Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows betterstack. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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