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Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging)

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A service to verify the identity of Cloudflare-internal Customer SLO probes Operated by Cloudflare.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging)?

The Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober is a specialized monitoring agent operated by Cloudflare's Reliability Engineering team. It is designed to execute lightweight, automated health checks against specific customer endpoints to generate Service Level Indicators (SLIs) regarding availability and latency. By proactively testing these endpoints from Cloudflare's global network, the service enables the company to detect and begin triaging performance issues before they impact the end-user experience.

Helpful — This bot performs proactive health checks to help Cloudflare identify and triage service disruptions for their customers.

Identification

Bot name

Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging)

Operator

Cloudflare

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

This bot crawls specific URLs nominated by customers participating in the Per-Customer Alerting pilot program. It uses these requests to calculate real-time performance metrics and verify that web services are responding correctly. To ensure transparency and security, the bot signs its requests using the Web Bot Auth standard (RFC 9421), allowing site owners to cryptographically verify that the traffic originates from Cloudflare's authorized monitoring infrastructure.

Block or allow Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging)

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for CustomerSLO Prober 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 Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging) from crawling your entire site
User-agent: CustomerSLO Prober
Disallow: /

# Allow Cloudflare CustomerSLO Prober (Staging) full access
User-agent: CustomerSLO Prober
Allow: /