Hexometer
ReviewHexometer is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review.
User-Agent
HexometerUser-agent strings are identity signals, not proof of identity. Confirm the source and behavior before trusting a request.
Verification and Detection
Verification method: Verify Hexometer by matching `Hexometer` to observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Hexometer traffic is primarily detected by the `Hexometer` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence 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.
Hexometer is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Record Details
- Type
- monitoring-bot
- Operator
- Hexometer
- Family
- Hexometer
- Kind
- Monitoring Bot
- Purpose
- Uptime And Performance Monitoring
- Identity
- Documented
- Detection confidence
- Medium
- Spoofing risk
- Hexometer 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: Hexometer
Disallow: /