Watchful
GoodBotVerifiedBOTMonitoring system to check uptime on client websites. Operated by Watchful.li.
What is Watchful?
Watchful is a professional website management platform designed to help administrators oversee multiple sites from a single dashboard. It provides automated monitoring for uptime, security vulnerabilities, and software updates, ensuring that web assets remain functional and protected. The service is widely used by agencies and developers to streamline maintenance tasks and receive alerts regarding the health of their managed infrastructure.
Identification
WebsiteOpsHow we rated this bot
Verified by Cloudflare, which confirms who runs it, with no widespread reports of abuse.
What we read
- Meta Has New Web-Crawling Bots That Sneakily Get Around Robots.txt - Business Insider
- What Is a robots.txt File? (And When To Use One)
- HUMAN and TollBit Empower Websites with Robust Bot Management and Content Monetization Solutions for AI Agents
- Watchful — Enterprise Strategic Intelligence Platform
- Quickly & safely manage WordPress sites with our privacy-first maintenance tools.
Why it crawls your site
The bot crawls websites to verify their availability, check for security threats, and audit the versions of installed software components. It uses a specific set of IP addresses and a defined User-Agent to ensure that its requests are not blocked by firewalls or security plugins. Site owners can verify the bot's legitimacy by checking the official Watchful documentation, which provides a list of authorized IP addresses for whitelisting purposes.
Block or allow Watchful
Add a Disallow rule for WebsiteOps 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 Watchful from crawling your entire site User-agent: WebsiteOps Disallow: / # Allow Watchful full access User-agent: WebsiteOps Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows WebsiteOps. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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