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Doctom 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

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

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.