Kinsta
GoodBotVerifiedBOTOur bot makes requests towards Kinsta-hosted client sites for uptime monitoring purposes as well as to confirm successful domain pointing. Operated by Kinsta.
What is Kinsta?
Kinsta is a web crawler operated by Kinsta. Our bot makes requests towards Kinsta-hosted client sites for uptime monitoring purposes as well as to confirm successful domain pointing.
Identification
kinsta-botWhy it crawls your site
Kinsta crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Kinsta 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 Kinsta
Add a Disallow rule for kinsta-bot 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 Kinsta from crawling your entire site User-agent: kinsta-bot Disallow: / # Allow Kinsta full access User-agent: kinsta-bot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows kinsta-bot. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Kinsta's documentation.
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