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BinaryCanary

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BinaryCanary monitors websites for availability and performance issues. Operated by Binary Canary.

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Assessment
Monitoring & Analytics
Category
BOT
Kind
1
Data sources
AI-generated summary, drawn from Cloudflare, operator docs, and community data

What is BinaryCanary?

BinaryCanary is a web crawler operated by Binary Canary. BinaryCanary monitors websites for availability and performance issues.

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

Identification

Bot name
BinaryCanary
Operator
Binary Canary
Category
Monitoring & Analytics
Kind
BOT
Verification
Verified bot
Cloudflare slug
binarycanary
User-agent patterns
http://www.binarycanary.com
User-agent string
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Chirp/1.0; +http://www.binarycanary.com)
Main use cases
Website monitoringPerformance trackingUptime checking

Why it crawls your site

BinaryCanary crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Binary Canary 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 BinaryCanary

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for http://www.binarycanary.com 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 BinaryCanary from crawling your entire site
User-agent: http://www.binarycanary.com
Disallow: /

# Allow BinaryCanary full access
User-agent: http://www.binarycanary.com
Allow: /
Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows http://www.binarycanary.com. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Binary Canary's documentation.

Traffic & trends

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Data sources

This profile is compiled from the following sources.

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Last updated July 26, 2026