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SynapsMedia-Healthcheck

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Domain verification bot of Synaps Media managed hosting service Operated by Synaps Media.

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Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

What is SynapsMedia-Healthcheck?

SynapsMedia-Healthcheck is a specialized diagnostic tool operated by Synaps Media to validate the status of custom domain connections. Unlike general-purpose crawlers, this bot is designed to perform targeted probes to ensure that domain routing and server responses are functioning correctly for their clients. It is a transparent, well-documented agent that provides multiple methods for verification, including IP allowlisting, FCrDNS, and cryptographic signing via RFC 9421.

Helpful — This bot performs essential infrastructure verification to ensure that custom domains are correctly mapped and reachable for users.

Identification

Bot name

SynapsMedia-Healthcheck

Operator

Synaps Media

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

The bot crawls specific endpoints to confirm that a domain is properly pointed to the Synaps Media infrastructure. By performing these health checks, the operator can proactively identify and resolve configuration errors or downtime for their users. Site administrators can verify the legitimacy of this traffic by checking the source IP against the published list or by validating the cryptographic signature included in the HTTP headers.

Block or allow SynapsMedia-Healthcheck

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for SynapsMedia 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 SynapsMedia-Healthcheck from crawling your entire site
User-agent: SynapsMedia
Disallow: /

# Allow SynapsMedia-Healthcheck full access
User-agent: SynapsMedia
Allow: /