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Doctom Monitor

Name: Doctom Monitor
Author: Dotcom-Monitor

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The Doctom Monitor checks websites for uptime and performance issues. Operated by Dotcom-Monitor.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Doctom Monitor?

Doctom Monitor is a web crawler operated by Dotcom-Monitor. The Doctom Monitor checks websites for uptime and performance issues.

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

Identification

Bot name

Doctom Monitor

Operator

Dotcom-Monitor

Why it crawls your site

Doctom Monitor crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Dotcom-Monitor 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 Doctom Monitor

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for DMBrowser 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 Doctom Monitor from crawling your entire site
User-agent: DMBrowser
Disallow: /

# Allow Doctom Monitor full access
User-agent: DMBrowser
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows DMBrowser. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Dotcom-Monitor's documentation.