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Quick answer
What is Splunk?
Splunk is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Rigor; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Rigor) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36.
Splunk is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
Splunk does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
Splunk can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
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Identity
How to identify this Bot
- User-Agent
Rigor- robots.txt token
Rigor- HTTP agent
Mozilla/5.0 (X11Linux x86_64Rigor) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTMLlike Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36- Operator
- Splunk
- Family
- Splunk
- Technical kind
- monitor
- Identity method
- verified-bot
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Behavior
Purpose, behavior, and practical context
- Purpose
- monitoring
- Common use
- Splunk is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Respects robots.txt
- unknown
- Spoofing risk
- Splunk has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Detection notes
- Splunk traffic is primarily detected by the `Rigor` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Rigor) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
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Verification and controls
Verification and blocking guidance
- Verification method
- Verify Splunk by matching `Rigor` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
- General blocking snippet
User-agent: RigorDisallow: /
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