Overview
NETVIGIE is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is NETVIGIE; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla [...] Chrome [...] NETVIGIE.
NETVIGIE is Unverified at the identity-evidence level. The listed identity remains useful for detection, but this record does not currently contain authoritative evidence sufficient to authenticate the identity claim.
Robots.txt behavior is not currently confirmed.
NETVIGIE can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
NETVIGIE- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla [...] Chrome [...] NETVIGIE- Robots.txt Token
NETVIGIE- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Treat `NETVIGIE` as an identity signal only. Confirm it with current operator documentation, cryptographic verification, forward-confirmed reverse DNS, source-network ownership, or other authoritative evidence before trusting the claimed identity.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Netvigie
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- NETVIGIE is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- NETVIGIE traffic is primarily detected by the `NETVIGIE` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla [...] Chrome [...] NETVIGIE`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- Unknown
- Spoofing Risk
- NETVIGIE 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.