Overview
HttpStatus is a monitoring bot from httpstatus.io used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is HttpStatus; related patterns include HttpStatus (+https://httpstatus.io/ua); httpstatus.io bot.
HttpStatus is not independently verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
HttpStatus 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
HttpStatus- Aliases
- HttpStatus (+https://httpstatus.io/ua); httpstatus.io bot
- HTTP Agent Examples
HttpStatus- Robots.txt Token
HttpStatus- Identity Type
- Official Documented
- Evidence Method
- Verify HttpStatus by matching `HttpStatus` to httpstatus.io evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitoring
- Family
- httpstatus.io
- Purpose
- status-checking
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- HttpStatus is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- HttpStatus traffic is primarily detected by the `HttpStatus` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `HttpStatus (+https://httpstatus.io/ua); httpstatus.io bot`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with httpstatus.io infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- HttpStatus has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.
- Risk
- Neutral
- Recommended Handling
- Depends
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.