Bot intelligence record
CheckHost
Review firstCheckHost is a monitoring bot from Check-Host.net used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as `CheckHost`.
- Operator
- Check-Host.net
- Family
- Check-Host.net
- Type
- Monitoring Bot
- Source type
- Observed
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
User-Agent Pattern
Check-Host.netCheckHost
User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.
Robots.txt Snippet
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: CheckHost
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Handling Guidance
AllowUse this record as bot intelligence, then verify the request source and behavior before allowing, blocking, or rate limiting.
CheckHost is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Check-Host.net
- Family
- Check-Host.net
- Type
- Monitoring Bot
- Purpose
- Uptime And Performance Monitoring
- Identity type
- Documented
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-06-22
- Last checked
- 2026-06-22
- Source type
- Observed
- Verification
- Verify CheckHost by matching `CheckHost` to Check-Host.net evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- CheckHost has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- 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 verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
- CheckHost does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
- CheckHost can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify CheckHost by matching `CheckHost` to Check-Host.net evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- 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.
- CheckHost is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- CheckHost has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
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