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SolarWinds Observability

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Default header that identifies SolarWinds Observability robots that are used for our synthetic monitoring. Operated by SolarWinds.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is SolarWinds Observability?

SolarWinds Observability is a web crawler operated by SolarWinds. Default header that identifies SolarWinds Observability robots that are used for our synthetic monitoring.

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

Identification

Bot name

SolarWinds Observability

Operator

SolarWinds

How we rated this bot

Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.

Names itself honestly

Yes

Verified by Cloudflare

Yes

Says it follows robots.txt and opt-outs

Not stated

Ignores site rules

None found

Disguises itself or evades blocks

None found

Overloads sites

None found

How widely people complain

No complaint about this bot in the evidence

Reddit discussion

There is no Reddit discussion of this bot in the evidence

What we read

Why it crawls your site

SolarWinds Observability crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds Observability

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for solarwinds 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 SolarWinds Observability from crawling your entire site
User-agent: solarwinds
Disallow: /

# Allow SolarWinds Observability full access
User-agent: solarwinds
Allow: /