About this bot
Alertsite by Smartbear is a synthetic monitor associated with SmartBear and used for synthetic transaction monitoring.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is AlertSite.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Risk classification: Safe. Evaluate request context and site policy before allowing, rate-limiting, or blocking.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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AlertSite
Details
- Kind
- Synthetic monitor
- Family
- AlertSite
- Purpose
- Synthetic transaction monitoring
- Common Use
- synthetic browser transaction, availability, and website performance monitoring
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `AlertSite` as the claimed identity signal and corroborate it with stronger request or network evidence when authentication matters.
- Detection Notes
- Match the `AlertSite` User-Agent identity.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.