Better Stack Bot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTBetter Stack Monitoring User-Agent Operated by Better Stack.
What is Better Stack Bot?
Better Stack Bot is a specialized monitoring agent operated by Better Stack as part of their observability and incident management platform. It periodically visits configured endpoints to verify availability, measure response times, and detect SSL or connection errors. By simulating user requests, it provides SRE teams with the telemetry necessary to trigger alerts and maintain service level objectives (SLOs).
Identification
Better StackWhy it crawls your site
The bot crawls specific URLs provided by Better Stack customers to perform 'heartbeat' checks and uptime verification. It does not index content for search engines or train AI models; instead, it collects performance metrics and status codes to identify outages. Website administrators can verify the bot's origin by checking the source IP addresses against Better Stack's published infrastructure ranges or by observing the specific User-Agent string in their server logs.
Block or allow Better Stack Bot
Add a Disallow rule for Better Stack 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 Better Stack Bot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Better Stack Disallow: / # Allow Better Stack Bot full access User-agent: Better Stack Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Better Stack. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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