Cloudflare Observatory Curly
GoodBotVerifiedBOTSynthetic network probes for HTTP timing measurements (TCP, TLS, TTFB). Measures connection timing for customer-owned URLs. Operated by Cloudflare.
What is Cloudflare Observatory Curly?
Cloudflare Observatory Curly is a web crawler operated by Cloudflare. Synthetic network probes for HTTP timing measurements (TCP, TLS, TTFB). Measures connection timing for customer-owned URLs.
Identification
curly-Why it crawls your site
Cloudflare Observatory Curly crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Cloudflare 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 Cloudflare Observatory Curly
Add a Disallow rule for curly- 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 Observatory Curly from crawling your entire site User-agent: curly- Disallow: / # Allow Cloudflare Observatory Curly full access User-agent: curly- Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows curly-. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Cloudflare's documentation.
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