Hund
GoodBotVerifiedBOTHund is a hosted status page platform with in Operated by Shape of Things GmbH.
What is Hund?
Bluthund is the proprietary monitoring agent operated by Shape of Things GmbH for their Hund.io platform. It functions as a heartbeat monitor, periodically visiting configured endpoints to verify service availability and performance metrics. By automating these checks, it allows organizations to maintain real-time status pages without manual intervention, ensuring that customers are informed immediately during outages or service degradation.
Identification
BluthundHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
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Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls specific URLs configured by Hund.io users to perform health checks and latency measurements. It uses the gathered data to trigger automated status updates, incident alerts, and uptime reporting within the Hund dashboard. Site owners can verify the bot by checking for the 'Bluthund' user-agent string and ensuring requests originate from the platform's documented infrastructure.
Block or allow Hund
Add a Disallow rule for Bluthund 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 Hund from crawling your entire site User-agent: Bluthund Disallow: / # Allow Hund full access User-agent: Bluthund Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Bluthund. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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