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UptimeObserver Bot

GoodBotVerifiedBOT

UptimeObserver checks website and service availability, reporting downtime and performance issues.

Operator website ↗

GoodBot

Assessment

Monitoring & Analytics

Identification

Bot name

UptimeObserver Bot

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

Block or allow UptimeObserver Bot

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UptimeObserver/1.0; +http://uptimeobserver.com/) 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 UptimeObserver Bot from crawling your entire site
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UptimeObserver/1.0; +http://uptimeobserver.com/)
Disallow: /

# Allow UptimeObserver Bot full access
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UptimeObserver/1.0; +http://uptimeobserver.com/)
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; UptimeObserver/1.0; +http://uptimeobserver.com/). Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.