Overview
Cxense is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is cXensebot; related patterns include cXensebot/; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) cXensebot/2.0; +http://www.cxense.com/bot.html Safari/533.3 3615 155430223 0.03793830424547195 clarin.com 5.9.190.107 bot-5-9-190-107.cxensebot.com.
Cxense is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
Cxense is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
Cxense 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
cXensebot- Aliases
- cXensebot/
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) cXensebot/2.0; +http://www.cxense.com/bot.html Safari/533.3 3615 155430223 0.03793830424547195 clarin.com 5.9.190.107 bot-5-9-190-107.cxensebot.com- Robots.txt Token
cXensebot- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify Cxense by matching `cXensebot` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Cxense
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Cxense is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- Cxense traffic is primarily detected by the `cXensebot` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `cXensebot/`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) cXensebot/2.0; +http://www.cxense.com/bot.html Safari/533.3 3615 155430223 0.03793830424547195 clarin.com 5.9.190.107 bot-5-9-190-107.cxensebot.com`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- Cxense 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
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.