Overview
CheckHost is a monitoring bot from Check-Host.net used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is CheckHost.
CheckHost is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
CheckHost can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
CheckHost- HTTP Agent Examples
CheckHost- Robots.txt Token
CheckHost- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `CheckHost` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring Bot
- Kind
- Monitoring Bot
- Family
- Check-Host.net
- Purpose
- uptime-and-performance-monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- CheckHost is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- CheckHost traffic is primarily detected by the `CheckHost` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Check-Host.net infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- CheckHost 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
- Allow
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.