pingdombot
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedAn automated agent used by the Pingdom service to perform uptime and performance checks on websites and servers. Operated by SolarWinds.
What is pingdombot?
Pingdom Bot is a specialized monitoring agent operated by SolarWinds as part of their Pingdom suite. It periodically visits configured URLs to verify that websites are reachable, measuring response times and checking for HTTP status codes to ensure service reliability. By simulating end-user requests from various global locations, it provides site owners with critical data regarding their infrastructure's health and availability.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites to fulfill the monitoring contracts established by Pingdom users who wish to track their site's uptime. It does not index content for search or AI training; instead, it collects performance metrics and status codes to trigger alerts if a site goes down or slows significantly. Operators can verify the bot by checking that the source IP addresses originate from the official Pingdom probe server ranges published by SolarWinds.
IP ranges
Requests from pingdombot 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 pingdombot
Add a Disallow rule for pingdombot 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 pingdombot from crawling your entire site User-agent: pingdombot Disallow: / # Allow pingdombot full access User-agent: pingdombot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows pingdombot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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