Pingdom
GoodBotVerifiedBOTThe Pingdom bot is the HTTP monitoring probe for Pingdom's website monitoring service. Operated by Pingdom.
What is Pingdom?
Pingdom is a web crawler operated by Pingdom. The Pingdom bot is the HTTP monitoring probe for Pingdom's website monitoring service.
Identification
http://www.pingdom.com/Why it crawls your site
Pingdom crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Pingdom 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 Pingdom
Add a Disallow rule for http://www.pingdom.com/ 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 Pingdom from crawling your entire site User-agent: http://www.pingdom.com/ Disallow: / # Allow Pingdom full access User-agent: http://www.pingdom.com/ Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows http://www.pingdom.com/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Pingdom's documentation.
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