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betterstack

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An automated monitoring agent that performs health checks, uptime pings, and metrics scraping to ensure infrastructure reliability. Operated by Better Stack.

Undecided

Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

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.

Helpful — It provides essential uptime monitoring and alerting services for website owners and developers.

Identification

Bot name

betterstack

Operator

Better Stack

How we rated this bot

We could not confirm that it identifies itself honestly.

Names itself honestly

Not confirmed

Verified by Cloudflare

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

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.

Showing 24 of 50 ranges

Block or allow betterstack

Block it

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: /