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BigScootsMonitor

Name: BigScootsMonitor
Author: BigScoots

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BigScoots Managed Services Monitor - Uptime Operated by BigScoots.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is BigScootsMonitor?

BigScootsMonitor is a web crawler operated by BigScoots. BigScoots Managed Services Monitor - Uptime

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

Identification

Bot name

BigScootsMonitor

Operator

BigScoots

Why it crawls your site

BigScootsMonitor crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by BigScoots 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 BigScootsMonitor

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for BigScootsMonitor 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 BigScootsMonitor from crawling your entire site
User-agent: BigScootsMonitor
Disallow: /

# Allow BigScootsMonitor full access
User-agent: BigScootsMonitor
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows BigScootsMonitor. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to BigScoots's documentation.