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Sentry

Name: Sentry
Author: Sentry

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

Sentry monitors webpages for availability and performance issues. Operated by Sentry.

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GoodBot

Assessment

Security

What is Sentry?

Sentry is a web crawler operated by Sentry. Sentry monitors webpages for availability and performance issues.

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

Identification

Bot name

Sentry

Operator

Sentry

Why it crawls your site

Sentry crawls websites to scan for security vulnerabilities and potential threats. It is operated by Sentry as part of their security infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Sentry

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for https://sentry.io 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 Sentry from crawling your entire site
User-agent: https://sentry.io
Disallow: /

# Allow Sentry full access
User-agent: https://sentry.io
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows https://sentry.io. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Sentry's documentation.