MonSpark
GoodBotVerifiedBOTMonSpark is a website monitoring service. Its monitoring bot checks website availability, network conditions and TLS certificate validity. Operated by MonSpark.
What is MonSpark?
MonSpark is a web crawler operated by MonSpark. MonSpark is a website monitoring service. Its monitoring bot checks website availability, network conditions and TLS certificate validity.
Identification
MonSpark/How we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
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Why it crawls your site
MonSpark crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by MonSpark 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 MonSpark
Add a Disallow rule for MonSpark/ 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 MonSpark from crawling your entire site User-agent: MonSpark/ Disallow: / # Allow MonSpark full access User-agent: MonSpark/ Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows MonSpark/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to MonSpark's documentation.
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