uptimerobot
GoodBotCommunity-sourcedA service that monitors website availability and performance by periodically sending HTTP requests to check for uptime status. Operated by UptimeRobot.
What is uptimerobot?
UptimeRobot is a widely used monitoring service that tracks the availability of websites and servers by performing regular health checks. It operates by sending lightweight requests to specified endpoints to verify that they are responding correctly and within expected timeframes. The service is highly regarded by developers and system administrators for its reliability in detecting downtime and triggering instant notifications.
Identification
Why it crawls your site
UptimeRobot crawls websites to verify that they are online and functioning as expected. By periodically accessing a site, it can detect outages, slow response times, or SSL certificate issues, allowing owners to address technical problems immediately. You can verify the operator by checking the source IP addresses against the official UptimeRobot IP list published on their website.
IP ranges
Requests from uptimerobot 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 uptimerobot
Add a Disallow rule for uptimerobot 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 uptimerobot from crawling your entire site User-agent: uptimerobot Disallow: / # Allow uptimerobot full access User-agent: uptimerobot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows uptimerobot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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From the community
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Related bots
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Data sources
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