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Splunk Synthetics

Name: Splunk Synthetics
Author: Splunk

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Synthetic monitoring tool with global agents running in AWS Operated by Splunk.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Splunk Synthetics?

Splunk Synthetics is a web crawler operated by Splunk. Synthetic monitoring tool with global agents running in AWS

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

Identification

Bot name

Splunk Synthetics

Operator

Splunk

Why it crawls your site

Splunk Synthetics crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Splunk 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 Splunk Synthetics

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Splunk Synthetics 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 Splunk Synthetics from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Splunk Synthetics
Disallow: /

# Allow Splunk Synthetics full access
User-agent: Splunk Synthetics
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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