About this bot
Better Stack Bot is associated with Better Stack and used for uptime and synthetic monitoring.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is Better Stack Better Uptime Bot. Representative HTTP request identity: 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.
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: official documented.
robots.txt behavior is currently unconfirmed.
Verification: Match the `Better Stack Better Uptime Bot` prefix and corroborate source IPs or configured monitor context when authenticity matters.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
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Better Stack Better Uptime BotBetter 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 - Also known as
- Better Stack Better Uptime Bot; Better Stack monitor
Details
- Kind
- Current monitor agent
- Family
- Better Stack
- Purpose
- Uptime and synthetic monitoring
- Common Use
- uptime checks, synthetic monitoring, endpoint validation, and related observability workflows
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Officially documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the `Better Stack Better Uptime Bot` prefix and corroborate source IPs or configured monitor context when authenticity matters.
- Detection Notes
- `Better Stack Better Uptime Bot` is current default for monitors created on/after 2024-11-11.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Use server-side controls if restriction is required.