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BinaryCanary

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

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

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

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

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

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

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.