About this bot
Cert Chief is a certificate monitor associated with Chief Tools and used for certificate monitoring.
It can be identified in HTTP traffic by the CertChief identity family, including CertChief/8714fb40 (+https://cert.chief.app).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with Medium confidence. Identity type: documented.
robots.txt behavior is not sufficiently established to claim compliance.
Match the CertChief identity and corroborate it with certificate-monitoring request patterns.
How to identify this bot
- User-agent and crawler identifiers
-
CertChiefCertChief/8714fb40 (+https://cert.chief.app)CertChief/ - Also known as
- CertChief/
Details
- Kind
- Certificate monitor
- Family
- Chief Tools
- Purpose
- Certificate monitoring
- Common Use
- Periodic checks of website TLS certificates and related configuration.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
Verification
- Identity Type
- Documented
- Evidence Method
- Match the CertChief identity and corroborate it with certificate-monitoring request patterns.
- Detection Notes
- The version/build suffix can vary; use the stable CertChief token for matching.
Website controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: CertChief/ Disallow: /