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honeybadgerbot

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HoneybadgerBot is the bot used by the Honeybadger error and uptime monitoring service. Operated by Honeybadger Industries.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is honeybadgerbot?

honeybadgerbot is a web crawler operated by Honeybadger Industries. HoneybadgerBot is the bot used by the Honeybadger error and uptime monitoring service.

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

Identification

Bot name

honeybadgerbot

Operator

Honeybadger Industries

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

honeybadgerbot crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Honeybadger Industries 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 honeybadgerbot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Honeybadger Uptime Check 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 honeybadgerbot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Honeybadger Uptime Check
Disallow: /

# Allow honeybadgerbot full access
User-agent: Honeybadger Uptime Check
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Honeybadger Uptime Check. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Honeybadger Industries's documentation.