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HetrixTools

Name: HetrixTools
Author: HetrixTools Inc

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HetrixTools offers an Uptime Monitoring service, where our monitoring locations (bots) will check whether our users' websites are online or not. Similar to more known services such as Pingdom or UptimeRobot. Operated by HetrixTools Inc.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is HetrixTools?

HetrixTools is a web crawler operated by HetrixTools Inc. HetrixTools offers an Uptime Monitoring service, where our monitoring locations (bots) will check whether our users' websites are online or not. Similar to more known services such as Pingdom or UptimeRobot.

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

Identification

Bot name

HetrixTools

Operator

HetrixTools Inc

Why it crawls your site

HetrixTools crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by HetrixTools Inc 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 HetrixTools

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for HetrixTools 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 HetrixTools from crawling your entire site
User-agent: HetrixTools
Disallow: /

# Allow HetrixTools full access
User-agent: HetrixTools
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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