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MontasticMonitor

Name: MontasticMonitor
Author: Montastic

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The MontasticMonitor bot monitors website avaiability. Operated by Montastic.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is MontasticMonitor?

MontasticMonitor is a web crawler operated by Montastic. The MontasticMonitor bot monitors website avaiability.

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

Identification

Bot name

MontasticMonitor

Operator

Montastic

Why it crawls your site

MontasticMonitor crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Montastic 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 MontasticMonitor

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for montastic-monitor 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 MontasticMonitor from crawling your entire site
User-agent: montastic-monitor
Disallow: /

# Allow MontasticMonitor full access
User-agent: montastic-monitor
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows montastic-monitor. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Montastic's documentation.