Overview
Monsido Uptime is a uptime monitor associated with Acquia and used for uptime monitoring.
The primary identifying User-Agent token is MonsidoUptime. Representative HTTP identity or detection model: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MonsidoUptime/1.0; +http://monsido.com/uptime.html; info@monsido.com).
Directory status: Active. Identity classification: Verified with High confidence. Identity type: operator-documented.
robots.txt is not a reliable control for this traffic; use normal authentication or server-side controls when restriction is required.
Risk classification: Safe. Recommended handling is to generally allow or monitor rather than block by identity alone.
Identity
- User-Agent Pattern
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MonsidoUptime - Aliases
- MonsidoUptime/1.0; Acquia Web Governance Heartbeat
- HTTP Agent Examples
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Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MonsidoUptime/1.0; +http://monsido.com/uptime.html; info@monsido.com) - Identity Type
- operator-documented
- Evidence Method
- Match `MonsidoUptime/1.0` and corroborate with Acquia's separate published Heartbeat IP addresses for the applicable region.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Uptime monitor
- Family
- Acquia Web Governance
- Purpose
- Uptime monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- Running Acquia Web Governance Heartbeat uptime checks against customer-configured websites.
- Detection Notes
- MonsidoUptime is the Acquia Web Governance Heartbeat identity and is distinct from the Monsidobot site-governance crawler.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- The User-Agent is spoofable; use Acquia's published Heartbeat source IPs for stronger attribution.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- Do not block
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
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# robots.txt is not a reliable control for this identity. Use server-side access controls if restriction is required.