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Better Uptime

Name: Better Uptime
Author: Better Stack

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The bot is used for monitoring infrastructure platforms. Operated by Better Stack.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Better Uptime?

Better Uptime is a web crawler operated by Better Stack. The bot is used for monitoring infrastructure platforms.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Better Uptime

Operator

Better Stack

Why it crawls your site

Better Uptime crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Better Stack as part of their monitoring and analytics infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Better Uptime

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Better Uptime Bot 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 Uptime from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Better Uptime Bot
Disallow: /

# Allow Better Uptime full access
User-agent: Better Uptime Bot
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Better Uptime Bot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Better Stack's documentation.