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Server Density

Name: Server Density
Author: Stackpath

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Proactive infrastructure monitoring for cloud, servers, containers & websites. Operated by Stackpath.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is Server Density?

Server Density is a web crawler operated by Stackpath. Proactive infrastructure monitoring for cloud, servers, containers & websites.

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

Identification

Bot name

Server Density

Operator

Stackpath

Why it crawls your site

Server Density crawls websites to monitor website availability, performance, and analytics. It is operated by Stackpath 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 Server Density

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Server Density 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 Server Density from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Server Density
Disallow: /

# Allow Server Density full access
User-agent: Server Density
Allow: /

Allow & verify

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