Upstash QStash
GoodBotVerifiedAGENTA serverless message queue and scheduling service that delivers HTTP requests to user-defined endpoints with built-in retry logic and delivery guarantees. Operated by Upstash.
What is Upstash QStash?
Upstash QStash is a serverless messaging and scheduling platform designed to handle asynchronous HTTP communication. It acts as a reliable intermediary between services, ensuring that messages are delivered to endpoints even if the destination is temporarily unavailable, by providing automatic retries and delivery guarantees. The service is widely used by developers to offload background tasks, manage webhooks, and schedule recurring jobs without the need to maintain dedicated queue infrastructure.
Identification
Upstash-QStashWhy it crawls your site
The Upstash-QStash user agent is used when the service performs outbound HTTP requests to deliver messages or trigger webhooks configured by the user. It does not crawl the web for indexing or data collection purposes; rather, it acts as a delivery agent for the specific endpoints registered by developers within the Upstash platform. You can verify the operator by checking the request headers for signature verification, which Upstash provides to ensure the request originated from their service.
Block or allow Upstash QStash
Add a Disallow rule for Upstash-QStash 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 Upstash QStash from crawling your entire site User-agent: Upstash-QStash Disallow: / # Allow Upstash QStash full access User-agent: Upstash-QStash Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows Upstash-QStash. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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