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InstatusBot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Instatus Monitoring tracks website and API health, triggering incident reports and alerts when service is detected down. Operated by Instatus.

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GoodBot

Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is InstatusBot?

InstatusBot is the dedicated monitoring agent for Instatus, a platform that provides status pages and incident management tools for businesses. The bot periodically visits configured endpoints to check for service availability, ensuring that the status information displayed to end-users remains accurate and up-to-date. By automating these health checks, it allows Instatus customers to maintain transparency regarding their infrastructure performance without manual intervention.

Helpful — This bot performs essential health checks to ensure that status pages accurately reflect the real-time availability of a user's services.

Identification

Bot name

InstatusBot

Operator

Instatus

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

The bot crawls specific URLs provided by Instatus customers to perform uptime checks and monitor service performance. It uses the data gathered to trigger real-time alerts or update the status page dashboard when a service goes down or experiences latency. Website administrators can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the provided URL (instatus.com) or contacting the support email listed in the User-Agent string.

Block or allow InstatusBot

Block it

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

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