Synthetic Bot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTDatadog Synthetics gives you a new layer of visibility on the Datadog platform. By monitoring your applications and API endpoints via simulated user requests and browser rendering. Operated by DataDog.
What is Synthetic Bot?
Synthetic Bot is a web crawler operated by DataDog. Datadog Synthetics gives you a new layer of visibility on the Datadog platform. By monitoring your applications and API endpoints via simulated user requests and browser rendering.
Identification
DatadogWhy it crawls your site
Synthetic Bot crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by DataDog 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 Synthetic Bot
Add a Disallow rule for Datadog 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 Synthetic Bot from crawling your entire site User-agent: Datadog Disallow: / # Allow Synthetic Bot full access User-agent: Datadog Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Datadog. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to DataDog's documentation.
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