Datadog Synthetics
ReviewDatadog Synthetics is a monitoring bot from Datadog used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review.
User-Agent
DatadogSyntheticsUser-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.
Verification and Detection
Verification method: Verify Datadog Synthetics by matching `DatadogSynthetics` to Datadog evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Datadog Synthetics traffic is primarily detected by the `DatadogSynthetics` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Datadog infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
Handling Guidance
Use this record as identity context. Verify the request source, behavior, and relevance to your site before allowing or restricting traffic.
Datadog Synthetics is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Record Details
- Type
- monitoring-bot
- Operator
- Datadog
- Family
- Datadog
- Kind
- Monitoring Bot
- Purpose
- Uptime And Performance Monitoring
- Identity
- Documented
- Detection confidence
- Medium
- Spoofing risk
- Datadog Synthetics Has Medium Spoofing Risk Because User Agent Strings Can Be Copied; Pair The Match With DNS, IP, Behavior, Or Operator Evidence.
- Status
- Active
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Last verified
- 2026 06 22
Robots.txt Snippet
User-agent: DatadogSynthetics
Disallow: /