WARDBot
GoodBotVerifiedBOTWARDBot is a specialized monitoring crawler that tracks the availability and status codes of URLs submitted by users to detect website downtime. Operated by W.A.R.D..
What is WARDBot?
WARDBot is a dedicated monitoring agent operated by W.A.R.D. designed to assist users in tracking the health and accessibility of their web properties. Unlike general-purpose AI crawlers that scrape content for model training, WARDBot focuses exclusively on checking HTTP status codes to identify potential downtime or connectivity issues. It operates with a polite crawl rate and provides clear documentation for site administrators to manage its access via standard robots.txt protocols.
Identification
WARDBotWhy it crawls your site
The bot crawls specific URLs provided by registered users to verify that their websites are responding correctly. By periodically requesting the headers of these pages, it can alert the owner if a site goes offline or returns an error code. Site administrators can verify the bot's identity through its user-agent string and the official documentation provided at ward.ai/robot, which also allows for custom configuration of crawl delays to ensure the bot does not impact server performance.
Block or allow WARDBot
Add a Disallow rule for WARDBot 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 WARDBot from crawling your entire site User-agent: WARDBot Disallow: / # Allow WARDBot full access User-agent: WARDBot Allow: /
Ensure your robots.txt allows WARDBot. Verify requests by checking the user-agent string.
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