Overview
Jetpack is a monitoring bot from Automattic used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is jetmon; a representative HTTP user-agent is jetmon/1.0 (Jetpack Site Uptime Monitor by WordPress.com).
Jetpack is Verified from current authoritative identity documentation reviewed on 2026-08-07. The identity type is Official Documented.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
Jetpack can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
jetmon- HTTP Agent Examples
jetmon/1.0 (Jetpack Site Uptime Monitor by WordPress.com)- Robots.txt Token
jetmon- Identity Type
- Official Documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `jetmon` to the current operator documentation and corroborate the request with operator-controlled verification signals where available; User-Agent strings alone can be spoofed.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Automattic
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Jetpack is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- Jetpack traffic is primarily detected by the `jetmon` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `jetmon/1.0 (Jetpack Site Uptime Monitor by WordPress.com)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Automattic infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- Jetpack has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- No
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# robots.txt behavior is unconfirmed. Do not rely on this rule without verification.