Overview
Better Stack Bot is a monitoring bot from Better Stack used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is Better Stack; related patterns include Better Stack Better Uptime Bot; Better Stack monitor.
Better Stack Bot is Verified from current authoritative identity documentation reviewed on 2026-08-07. The identity type is Official Documented.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Better Stack Bot should be reviewed against site policy, source evidence, crawl rate, and requested paths before a permanent allow or block rule is created.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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Better Stack Better Uptime Bot - Aliases
- Better Stack Better Uptime Bot; Better Stack monitor
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Better Stack Better Uptime Bot Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 - Robots Token
- Better Stack Better Uptime Bot
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `Better Stack Better Uptime Bot` to the current operator documentation and corroborate the request with operator-controlled verification signals where available; User-Agent strings alone can be spoofed.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitoring
- Family
- Better Stack
- Purpose
- Uptime monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Better Stack Bot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- Better Stack Bot traffic is primarily detected by the `Better Stack` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `Better Stack Better Uptime Bot; Better Stack monitor`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Better Stack infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Better Stack Bot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.
Relationships
- Operator
- Better Stack Checked 2026-08-07
Relationships without an Evidence link are normalized from the canonical directory record. They should not be interpreted as independent proof of physical presence or request origin.